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Boeing names next CEO for commercial airplanes and sets up aviation services unit

The Boeing Co. set a huge organizational transition into motion today by bringing in an outside aerospace executive as the… Read More

SpaceFest panel

Sisterhood is powerful when it comes to Seattle’s commercial space scene

The billionaires who run Blue Origin and SpaceX – Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk – may be locked in an outer-space rivalry,… Read More

Can biofuels take flight? Alternative fuels for jetliners face political and economic headwinds

Two major steps in Washington’s infant jet biofuel industry are expected to take place in the next couple months. In… Read More

Brooke Owens on zero-G flight

Brooke Owens Fellowships will boost women in aerospace (and we’re helping)

Space industry pioneer Brooke Owens didn’t live long enough to reach the final frontier, but her life has inspired a… Read More

Jay Inslee

Gov. Jay Inslee lays out five-point plan for boosting Washington’s aerospace industry

LYNNWOOD, Wash. – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee today laid out a down-to-earth prescription for keeping the Evergreen State competitive in the… Read More

Spike Aerospace supersonic jet

Will it be Washington? Spike Aerospace is still up in the air on supersonic jet plant

LYNNWOOD, Wash. – Boston-based Spike Aerospace is moving a bit more slowly than planned on its process to pick the site… Read More

Project Loon balloon

Balloons rise up on the strato-frontier

Drones, satellites and rocket planes are all well and good for high-flying missions, but sometimes the best craft for the job… Read More

Airbus A350 XWB jet

U.S. and Boeing see WTO ruling as huge victory in dispute over Airbus subsidies

The World Trade Organization turned up the heat on Europe’s aerospace industry today by ruling that Airbus was continuing to… Read More

Spike Aerospace jet

Spike Aerospace looks at Washington (and seven other states) for supersonic jet plant

Washington state is among the candidates for a supersonic jet factory being planned by Boston-based Spike Aerospace, but it’s not… Read More

Joe Sutter in cockpit

Boeing engineer Joe Sutter, the ‘Father of the 747,’ dies at the age of 95

Boeing engineer Joe Sutter, who led the engineering team for the 747 jet in the mid-1960s and played a role in… Read More

After 30 years in the air, Blue Angels jet is on its way to Seattle’s Museum of Flight

A 30-year-old Navy F/A-18 Hornet jet that’s been through combat duty as well as a dozen years with the Blue… Read More

Boeing Vancouver

Boeing will move 50 data analysts into a hip new lab in downtown Vancouver, B.C.

A Canadian subsidiary of the Boeing Co. has announced plans to open a data analytics laboratory in downtown Vancouver, B.C., to help… Read More

Stratolaunch hangar

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch lifts veil on world’s biggest plane — a giant bet on a new way to space

MOJAVE, Calif. – When you walk into the place where Seattle software billionaire Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems is building the world’s biggest airplane,… Read More

X-57 Maxwell

NASA gets first official X-plane in a decade: Electric craft named X-57 Maxwell

NASA says it has received its first X-plane designation in a decade, for a research aircraft that has 14 electric… Read More

Solar Impulse and Statue of Liberty

Solar Impulse round-the-world plane lands in NYC after Statue of Liberty photo op

The Solar Impulse 2 airplane finished up more than seven weeks of flying across America with an overnight hop to… Read More

Flying car concept

Report: Google’s Larry Page puts $100 million into the race to create flying cars

Google co-founder Larry Page is reportedly funding not just one, but two competing teams to turn the decades-old vision of flying cars… Read More

Boeing solar plane

Boeing tries, tries again with design for solar airplane that could stay up for years

Aerospace companies have been trying for years to create a solar-powered plane that can fly at high altitudes for years… Read More

Above and Beyond simulation

Top 5 things to do at Museum of Flight’s ‘Above and Beyond’ aerospace exhibit

Most of the floor space at Seattle’s Museum of Flight is set aside to celebrate past glories of aerospace – but “Above… Read More

Solar Impulse 2 landing

After 17-hour flight, Solar Impulse plane lands in Ohio, home of the Wright Brothers

The Swiss-built Solar Impulse 2 airplane continued its fuel-free, round-the-world odyssey today with a nearly 17-hour flight from Oklahoma to Dayton,… Read More

Autoclave

Boeing opens its giant, billion-dollar 777X composite wing factory in Everett

Boeing is showing off the partially automated 777X Composite Wing Center it built at its campus in Everett, Wash. – the result… Read More

Odle Middle School team

Bellevue middle schoolers soar to championship in world’s largest rocket contest

A team of middle schoolers from Bellevue, Wash., nicknamed the Space Potatoes, captured the top prize at the 2016 Team America… Read More

Interactive display

Aerospace worlds collide: Seattle designers create showcase for … Airbus?

Captain Kirk from the original “Star Trek” is celebrating Star Wars Day today, so maybe it shouldn’t be so surprising that… Read More

QueSST supersonic X-plane concept

Faster, quieter, greener: Will NASA’s campaign for X-planes pick up speed?

NASA is laying out a vision of quieter supersonic jets and environmentally friendly X-planes as part of its agenda for aeronautics, the… Read More

Image: Internet of Things jet engine

Microsoft extends the ‘Internet of Things’ to jet engines, refrigerators and more

Soon the “Internet of Things” will be keeping watch on jet engines, refrigerators and freezers, factory floors and more, thanks to… Read More

Image: Jet over Rainier

Gov. Jay Inslee names John Thornquist to head Washington state’s aerospace office

Longtime engineering executive John Thornquist has been chosen to head up Washington state’s Office of Aerospace, just as the state’s $70… Read More

Boeing 777

Boeing takes steps to trim 4,000 jobs; more layoffs may be on the way

Boeing Commercial Airplanes says it’s following through on its job reduction plan with the target of reducing its workforce by 4,000 positions by… Read More

Boom supersonic jet concept

Boom moves ahead on supersonic plane project, with help from Virgin Galactic

Remember the Concorde? Boom Technology has picked up a high-profile set of allies in its quest to revive supersonic passenger… Read More

Boeing self-cleaning toilet

Good news for germophobes! Boeing introduces the self-cleaning airplane toilet

In-flight services may be getting worse, but there’s at least one aspect of commercial air travel that might get better –… Read More

Boeing memorabilia

Boeing puts out the call for memorabilia to celebrate a century of innovation

Think of it as “Antiques Roadshow” for the aerospace set: The Boeing Co. is looking for historical artifacts and memorabilia… Read More

Image: Aerospace workers

Want a career in aerospace? Study computer science, job forecast for Seattle region suggests

The most reliable way to break into the aerospace industry of tomorrow is to learn computer science today. That’s one of… Read More

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