本期刊通過散發原始檔案文件，介紹飛機的重大進展、飛機的操作和飛機技術在其他領域的應用，致力于促進空中飛行的應用科學和技術。刊物刊登有關飛機系統、航空運輸、航空交通管理、飛機多學科設計優化、飛行力學、飛行及地面測試、應用計算流體力學、飛行安全、天氣及噪音危害、人為因素、機場設計等的合資格論文；航空業務、計算機在飛機上的應用，包括人工智能/專家系統、生產方法、工程經濟分析、可負擔性、可靠性、可維護性和后勤支助、將推進和控制系統納入飛機設計和操作、飛機空氣動力學（包括非定常空氣動力學）、結構設計/動力學、氣動彈性和氣動聲學。它出版關于通用航空、軍用和民用飛機、無人機、短距短距和短距短距、亞音速、超音速、跨音速和高超音速飛機的論文。本文主要探討了飛機技術應用方面近期技術工作的綜合調查結果。

This Journal is devoted to the advancement of the applied science and technology of airborne flight through the dissemination of original archival papers describing significant advances in aircraft, the operation of aircraft, and applications of aircraft technology to other fields. The Journal publishes qualified papers on aircraft systems, air transportation, air traffic management, and multidisciplinary design optimization of aircraft, flight mechanics, flight and ground testing, applied computational fluid dynamics, flight safety, weather and noise hazards, human factors, airport design, airline operations, application of computers to aircraft including artificial intelligence/expert systems, production methods, engineering economic analyses, affordability, reliability, maintainability, and logistics support, integration of propulsion and control systems into aircraft design and operations, aircraft aerodynamics (including unsteady aerodynamics), structural design/dynamics , aeroelasticity, and aeroacoustics. It publishes papers on general aviation, military and civilian aircraft, UAV, STOL and V/STOL, subsonic, supersonic, transonic, and hypersonic aircraft. Papers are sought which comprehensively survey results of recent technical work with emphasis on aircraft technology application.