Aerospace

Turkey has been stirred by the unmanned revolution but can all the platforms under development find customers?

Malaysia’s CTRM has learned a thing or two in overcoming production difficulties.

Even with massive damage inflicted deliberately, advanced stitched carbon-fiber structure passes NASA tests with flying colors.

As the 757 ecoDemonstrator program ends, Boeing studies options for what comes next.

Russia’s low-drag, low-noise airliner; Google undeterred by solar UAV crash; Europe to take down space debris; university research: modeling vortices, deterring birds, quieter honeycomb, sound-wave inspections.

With commercial aircraft output continuing to rise and military aircraft production set to increase, Aviation Week looks at the pressures facing the global aerospace industry.

The Long-Range Strike Bomber program will not be the seismic event for defense manufacturers that many analysts are predicting.

Leading-edge technologies and groundbreaking products highlight offerings from four small exhibitors in Paris.

Google is to continue with development of a solar-powered stratospheric unmanned aircraft for Internet delivery, despite confirming the prototype crashed on its first flight in New Mexico.

The transonic wind tunnel at ARA in the U.K. is being upgraded to generate accurately shaped gusts that last mere milliseconds, to help with the design and certification of commercial aircraft.

An atmospheric rover that floats down from space like a leaf, then flies for up to a year is being studied by Northrop Grumman and partner L.Garde.

Multirotors that fly for longer; CarterCopter stops tinkering, gets serious; airport robots could handle bags, move aircraft; drone industry tries some financial self-help.

Light and medium business jet sales are not profiting from the surge in profits in the corporate realm, but large business jets are. Here are some reasons why.

Recent movement by the FAA to speed rulemaking on UAS operations may be good for commerce, but is the agency now moving too fast?

Machining work has begun on components for the high-bypass geared turbofan’s first test gearbox.

Low-boom supersonic drop planned; Airbus shortlists Fly Your Ideas finalists; compete to print a Mars habitat; JAXA flies electric propulsion; full-speed shots for electromagnetic catapult.

Parts are coming together for Rolls-Royce’s Advance3 core demonstrator—an architecturally all-new concept that, for the first time in over four decades, evolves the company’s big fan engine design away from the classic RB.211.

First flight under its belt, Sikorsky aims to prove Raider’s breakthrough performance, looks ahead to operational demonstrations and the possibility of making the high-speed helicopter optionally piloted.

The new certificates of authorization (COA) will allow UASs up to 55 lb. operated by the six test sites to fly at or below 200 ft. anywhere in the U.S. except in restricted airspace and areas close to airports.

Rolls-Royce’s Trent XWB, the only engine available on the A350, sets new standards for high fuel efficiency, low noise and emissions.

After nearly 100 years, manned fighters still represent the overwhelming bulk of airpower, but predictions of their irrelevance or obsolescence are still with us.

The aircraft maker and launch vehicle manufacturer are using 3-D-printed polymer parts in the A350 and Atlas V booster, respectively

Variable-buoyancy airship patented; cockpit display keeps booms away; quicker ways to deploy unmanned assets; Slovakia’s AeroMobil flying car crashes; faster airport security checks.

NASA’s Greased Lightning has it all: unmanned operations, vertical takeoff and landing, distributed propulsion, hybrid-electric power and efficient cruise. But how does it work?

A century after work began on the first of Cardington's giant hangars, a new generation lighter-than-air vehicle is being prepared for flight testing inside the cavernous structure.