Heating the battery could enable fast charging for high utilization of electric air taxis while also enabling the rapid discharge rates required to provide the power for vertical takeoff and landing, researchers at Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated.

French startup Ascendance Flight Technologies is progressing toward the public demonstration of its Atea hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff air taxi during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

CFM International joint venture partners GE Aviation and Safran have launched an aggressive technology development program to pave the way for a new generation of fuel-efficient unducted—or open fan—engines to enter service around the mid-2030s.

Between receiving EASA certification for the aircraft and its electric propulsion unit in June 2020 and the end of last year, Pipistrel delivered 39 Velis Electros.

The tests at Airbus UK in Filton, England, evaluated the complete assembly of the Safran electric engine, Airbus nacelle and DUC Helices propeller.

The decade-long UKSAR2G contest is calling on bidders to provide an aviation solution for the UK’s offshore and onshore search and rescue capability.

Joby Aviation has laid out its road map to achieve type certification of its electric air taxi and obtain its air operator certificate in order to begin commercial aerial ridesharing services in U.S. cities in 2024.

Swiss artificial-intelligence startup Daedalean has completed a second study with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency to develop concepts for…