Performance Drone Works (PDW), which last week received a conditional loan commitment from the Defense Department to ...

Editor’s Note: To watch John’s video version of this article, click here. America’s air traffic controller shortage has become a numbers game, and the FAA is trying a new way to improve the odds: ...

The Army in August awarded a $46.1 million contract to Elroy Air to test and experiment with the company’s Chaparral autonomous hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for heavy ...

The Navy and Northrop Grumman this week revealed the Block II upgrade to the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye passed a Critical Design Review (CDR) in May, setting the way for flight tests within three years.

Aircraft leasing used to be fairly predictable. Rising interest rates pushed up borrowing costs, lease rates climbed, and airlines paid more to add capacity. When borrowing costs eventually fell, ...

For all the advances aviation has made over the past century, one challenge has never gone away: weather. Storms, turbulence, icing, wind shear, and rapidly changing conditions continue to shape every ...

The U.S. Air Force is searching for answers on how to remedy supply chain bottlenecks in building engines for the service’s F-15EX fighter by Boeing and F-16 by Lockheed Martin. The Air Force “is ...

Editor’s Note: To watch John’s concise video analysis of Boeing’s latest quarterly operating results (for the first quarter of 2026), click here. Boeing has crossed another important threshold in its ...

The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program (DDP) on July 1 said it invited 19 companies to compete in the final stage of its second challenge round in August with a chance to win production orders worth a ...

Startup weapons developer Mach Industries on June 16 announced it won a contract award to serve as aircraft integrator for a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) program focused on developing ...

Editor’s Note: To watch John’s video report that elaborates on these issues, click here: “Fuel Shock Causing Airline Divide.” Forget the hyperbolic headlines about a supposed “deal” being reached ...