Nearly two decades after the Concorde was retired, is the rival of supersonic air travel for real?

South Korea’s aspirations for building an aerospace and defense industry are gaining validation, with Poland’s announced intent to buy FA-50 light combat aircraft and the first flight of Korea Aerospace Industries’ KF-21 fighter.

No blockbusters but lots to talk about. Listen in to what our editors saw at Farnborough Airshow.

On a day of big announcements, Aviation Week editors discuss the latest developments in defense at Farnborough Airshow 2022.

Step behind the scenes with Aviation Week editors to hear about their sit downs with Guillaume Faury and David Calhoun prior to Farnborough Airshow.

On the eve of the first Farnborough in four years, two leaders from Accenture zero in on key themes at this year’s air show.

As NASA invites bids to build and fly its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, technology editor Graham Warwick and senior editor Guy Norris hear how this aircraft will differ from the agency’s prior X-planes. They talked to Rich Wahls, NASA’s newly appointed Sustainable Flight National Partnership mission integration manager at the AIAA Aviation 2022 conference in Chicago.

Lori Garver, out with a new book, Escaping Gravity, talks to Aviation Week editors about how the space industry ushered in a new era of private spaceflight, how to work around bureaucratic obstacles and her thoughts on increasing diversity in the aerospace workforce.

The Berlin Airshow takes place after a four year break. Increased defense spending and new technologies are the main topics, Aviation Week editors Tony Osborne, Thierry Dubois and Jens Flottau discovered.

For new space and advanced air mobility startups, the past two years have been a heady experience of investment, mergers with special purpose acquisition companies and high-risk plays into segments of the aerospace and defense industry that were mere dreams a decade ago.

In this week’s Check 6 podcast, Aviation Week veterans Carole Hedden, Michael Bruno and Graham Warwick look at what has worked to the benefit of these startups and what they face moving forward … in an economy that sees rising interest rates, higher risk, and more careful use of the cash available.