Sikorsky's X2 speedster completes first flight
Sikorsky today launched the flight test phase for the X2 high-speed technology d...

General Dynamics fuels expansion with surprise swoop for Jet Aviation
Last week's surprise $2.25 billion acquisition of Jet Aviation by US defence gia...

Boeing backs off interoperable goal for modelling and simulation networks
Boeing has softened its once-strident stance on the need to establish standards ...

Business Briefings
CYCLONE IN A SPIN OVER F-15 CONTRACT SUPPLIERS Elbit Systems subsidiary Cyclone ...

India set for offset bounty
Hindustan Aeronautics leads a pack of manufacturing enterprises eyeing import...

Avcon expands into Bahrain
Austrian charter operator Avcon Jet is opening a branch in Manama, Bahrain, wher...

Elbit sees wider view with infrared
Elbit Systems is developing eye-tracking technologies in a bid to enhance the fi...

First autonomous coanda effect UAV flight by December
The first autonomous flight of Geoff's Flying Saucer (GFS) Project's Fenstar 50 ...

Up to 26 Hospitalized After Emergency Landing.
PARIS (AP) A Ryanair plane made an emergency landing in central France after it ...

F-15 Tests Alternative Jet Engine Fuel.
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga: An aviation first was accomplished when an F-15E Stri...

GAO: poor performance doomed Lockheed/General Atomics bid for BAMS
New documents released on 20 August reveal why the US Navy rejected a Lockheed M...

Brazil nears first cut for F-X2 fighter bidders
The Brazilian air force is "very shortly" expected to narrow the competitive fie...

Working week: putting a business jet to the test
Imagine stepping into an aircraft that is being flown for the first time. That i...

DARPA to upgrade Wasp-based UAS to 'perch-and-stare'
AeroVironment will upgrade the 0.5kg (1lb) Wasp unmanned aircraft system to perf...

Northrop declines to rule out platform switch for new KC-X bid
As Boeing reportedly considers alternate platforms or withdrawal from the US Air...