Boeing

By Sash Tusa
Launch of the stretched A220 earlier than 2026 would free production slots for the higher-margin A321 and A321XLR variants—but a few hurdles stand in the way.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Boeing tets pilot Mike Bryan discusses the Boeing 777-9 manoeuvres at the flying display at Dubai Airshow 2023.
Dubai Airshow

By Guy Norris
The Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO talks with Aviation Week about key issues facing the company.
Dubai Airshow

Guy Norris speaks to Captain Heather Ross, lead pilot for the 777-9, inside the aircraft's flight deck.
Dubai Airshow

By Lori Ranson
Colombia’s largest airline, Avianca, is expanding at a fast pace after two of the country’s other carriers—Viva and Ultra Air—ceased operations this year.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
The strong surge in demand for the A350-1000 has come as a surprise to many, including probably some inside Airbus.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Emerging Technologies

Kay Sears
A multi-orbit satellite architecture is key to the nation’s quest to “conquer the night.”
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Matthew Fulco
While MRO joint ventures in China are still forming, the environment for such ventures is becoming less favorable.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The USAF is shopping for a new contractor to operate the fleet of Boeing 737-600s that ferries workers from Las Vegas to secretive locations in the region.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Continuing airworthiness management organizations are adding new aircraft types and regulatory approvals to their capability lists.
Marketplace

By Steve Trimble
An internal investigation team will be formed to analyze the cause of the anomaly during a test launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Daniel Williams
This weeks’ #FlightFriday looks at current in-production passenger widebody aircraft, amid a recent run of orders for the type.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Delays have led Emirates to extend operations of the 777-300ER fleet.
Dubai Airshow

By Guy Norris
Boeing has begun certification testing of an upgraded high pressure (HP) turbine blade configuration on the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 TEN version.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
“We arrived at strategic business decisions regarding our spectrum allocation,” Michelle Parker, vice president, Boeing Space Mission Systems, wrote.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris, Sean Broderick, Michael Bruno
Boeing is preaching calm as it works toward its middecade production and financial targets, but recent missteps underscore challenges of the next two years.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno, Sean Broderick
Boeing’s dual challenges—commercial aircraft supply, and defense and space program execution—continued to haunt the company in the third quarter.
Supply Chain

By Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
Boeing is close to getting FAA certification approval on the 737-7s and the go-ahead to start formal flight-testing of the 737-10.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
Boeing and Brisbane-based Ferra Engineering have agreed to extend their JDAM wing kit partnership through 2028.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Richard Aboulafia
New aircraft concepts offer hope for airlines struggling with high fuel prices—and for Boeing in its quest to remain commercially relevant.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Carbon cycle benefits of SAF are known, but will it help reduce the formation of persistent contrails? A Boeing and NASA flight test looks to find out.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
German lawmakers have approved the final and largest tranche of spending for the country’s purchase of the Israeli Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Aviation industry sustainability experts considered SAF challenges and strategies at MRO Europe in Amsterdam.
Aircraft & Propulsion