Aerospace Aircraft & Propulsion
Nov 04, 2020
With work reduced to documentation, it is not clear how the group is preserving corporate knowledge for a possible restart.
Nov 03, 2020
Falcon 9 engine issue delays first U.S.-launched ISS crew flight since the space shuttle.
Nov 02, 2020
NASA tests on Boeing’s 787-10 ecoDemonstrator provided unprecedented system-level acoustic data for improving low-noise airliner designs.
Nov 02, 2020
Tecnam’s electric; China unmanned test sites; Canadian AAM; Volocopter’s UAM backbone; Beam solar charger; Loon stratospheric record
Nov 02, 2020
Flight tests for the first time synchronously measured noise on the ground and on the aircraft.
Oct 16, 2020
The CEO of Italian aerospace and defense firm Leonardo has been sentenced to six years in prison for crimes committed in a previous role.
Oct 15, 2020
Rolls-Royce confirms that video of an electric vertical takeoff and landing tiltwing vehicle undergoing tests at Cranfield, England, is the company’s ground research test rig for future electric and hybrid electric aircraft.
Oct 15, 2020
The experimental aircraft would be one of a suite of demonstration projects to mature key technologies for a next-generation subsonic commercial transport by the mid-2020s.
Oct 14, 2020
Airshow China, due to be held at Zhuhai Airport on Nov. 10-15, has been postponed, the organizer said, without mentioning a new date.
Oct 13, 2020
Development of compact, efficient rotary internal-combustion engines able to run on jet fuel has been boosted by U.S. Army contracts to advance the technology for unmanned-aircraft propulsion and rotorcraft auxiliary-power applications.
Oct 13, 2020
With the second largest helicopter fleet in the world, Canada has launched a program to develop the technologies, supply chain and regulations for advanced air mobility, including urban and regional cargo and passenger transportation.
Oct 12, 2020
Prismatic’s PHASA-35 high-altitude pseudo-satellite has been fitted with a sensor payload and been taken through simulated cold soak testing to prepare it for stratospheric flight.
Oct 12, 2020
The new variant takes the Airbus A330-900's maximum take-off weight (MTOW) to 251 tonnes, a nine-tonne increase on the previous 242-tonne figure.