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From digital aircraft design tools to the A380's demise.
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Jens Flottau, Guy Norris 

Most respondents to a new Aviation Week/Bank of America survey say they want a new larger narrowbody or small widebody from Boeing—soon.
 
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Angus Batey

These technologies are helping optimize components, fabricate novel shapes and integrate data into design, manufacturing and maintenance.

 
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Henkel’s global head of strategy, Ruairi O’Kane, talks to Aviation Week about the technical and financial challenges facing the nascent urban air mobility (UAM) sector.
 
Guy Norris

New NASA green airliner study to go beyond agency’s sustainable X-plane to include technology for broader reduced environmental impacts.
 
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Brian Everstine

The U.S. Air Force’s future refueling aircraft, beyond the KC-46 and upcoming bridge tanker, should get smaller, focus solely on refueling and rely more on automation to be more effective in a high-end, Pacific war scenario, a new think tank report argues.
 
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Piotr Butowski

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to add advanced aircraft and air weapons to replace the aging platforms.

 
Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau, Richard Aboulafia 

Why the world’s largest passenger airplane never gained market lift — and what it means for the widebody segment.


 
Graham Warwick, Jens Flottau 

The family of Energia-branded concepts—with all-electric, hybrid-electric or hydrogen-fueled propulsion for low emissions and noise—are aimed to enter into service between 2030 and 2040.
 
Tony Osborne

Active sales campaigns for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are underway in the Czech Republic, Greece and Spain, officials say.

 
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Graham Warwick

Two Airbus A350s arrived at Canada’s Montreal-Trudeau International Airport on Nov. 9 having avoided emitting more than 6 metric tons of CO2 by flying in geese-like formation across the Atlantic from Toulouse. 
 
 
Brian Everstine

The U.S. Army’s Futures Command experimented with new high-technology systems for seven weeks as part of Project Convergence 21.