Billie Flynn, the Lockheed Martin test pilot who flew the F-35A's premiere aerobatic performance at the Paris Air Show, opens up about what it's like to flight test both the F-16 and the Joint Strike Fighter.
The flying public may not be so interested in it—yet—but pilotless commercial airplanes could be a boon to the aerospace industry and some financial analysts see a natural evolution in that direction coming.
Richard N. Aarons | Business & Commercial Aviation
The Australian Transportation Safety Board mounted a major investigation into a hard-landing incident, determining that the final approach had become unstable because of the pilot flying’s control inputs after he disengaged the autopilot.
Northrop Grumman is using an X-47B unmanned air vehicle (UAV) as a flying testbed for air refueling systems in support of its proposal for the U.S. Navy’s upcoming MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling tanker contest.
The pilots of a landing Air Canada Airbus A320 that nearly plowed into several aircraft at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) around midnight July 7 were visually confused by the runway lighting.
Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747-400 carrier aircraft, Cosmic Girl, is being readied for a series of ground and flight tests in the build-up towards captive-carry evaluations of the company’s LauncherOne small satellite launch vehicle.
Dann Runik still gets chills when he remembers the morning of March 1, 1978. He was in the cockpit of a DC-8 at LAX as he watched Continental Flight 603, a heavily laden DC-10, lumber down Runway 6R on its takeoff roll.
The U.S. Air Force is weighing buying a new light attack aircraft to fight terrorists, and the investment would also help retain fighter pilots who are leaving in droves.
Helen Massy-Beresford and Guy Norris | Aviation Week & Space Technology
Lower A380 production and continued challenges ramping up the A320neo put Airbus under pressure in the first half of 2017, while the road looked smoother for Boeing.
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