China-based general aviation services company Avion Pacific has signed a strategic collaboration deal with aircraft developer Aerion to support its sales and marketing efforts in the Asia-Pacific region as well as operate several of the U.S. company’s AS2 supersonic business jets.

U.S. start-up Ampaire is flying its hybrid-electric testbed on a regional airline route in Hawaii to demonstrate the propulsion technology’s potential to reduce fuel burn and CO2 emissions by 40-50%.

Boeing’s new long-range 777-9 twinjet is demonstrating high reliability and trouble-free handling to-date in initial flight tests, according to 777/777X chief test pilot Van Chaney.

ATW's Editor-in-Chief writes about flying in a MAX on American Airlines' media demonstration flight.

The organizers of the Paris Air Show, the world’s largest, have canceled the 2021 edition because of continued uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Airbus has carried out a new flight test program of its Zephyr solar-powered pseudo-satellite, focusing on low-altitude flying, ascent and descent. 

Rolls-Royce has hired Infosys, one of India’s largest digitally-based consulting firms, to provide engineering, research and development services for its civil aerospace business, turning over a major office in Bengaluru that the engine-maker built up over the last decade.

Air logistics startup Airflow is working with VerdeGo Aero to study the distributed hybrid-electric propulsion system for its planned short-takeoff-and-landing cargo aircraft.