Airline industry stakeholders are working to assess the real-world ramifications of new flight restrictions linked to the 5G wireless network rollout starting Jan. 19, but early indications suggest potentially significant disruptions at scores of commercial airports across the U.S.

Sweden’s Savback Helicopters is expanding the range of rotorcraft it sells, adding Dufour Aerospace’s electric tiltwing aircraft.

A U.S. startup that plans to use airships to transport green hydrogen and air cargo has been selected for a business accelerator program run by Dassault Systemes.

Spanish testing specialist Applus has been funded to develop the means for cryogenic testing of hydrogen tanks for aircraft, in support of Airbus’ initiative to field a zero-emissions airliner by the mid-2030s.

Scaled Composites has unveiled a concept for an optionally piloted, high-altitude aircraft capable of carrying modular payloads up to 10,000 lb.

The U.S. aviation and telecommunications industries have deescalated—at least temporarily—their clash over an issue that threatens to further disrupt airline operations during the COVID-19 pandemic: the potential of new 5G wireless networks interfering with aircraft electronics. 

The aircraft, which is designed to evaluate the public acceptability of low-boom supersonic flight over land, completed assembly last year in Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works and was shipped to Texas for structural tests in late December. 

After playing out through most of 2020 and 2021 for the electric vertical takeoff and landing industry, the process of assembling memorandums of understanding, letters of intent and other expressions of interest to bolster fundraising drives is underway in other parts of the evolving advanced air mobility market.