Airbus has flown an A380 with one of its four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines running on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), produced from used cooking oil and waste fats by France’s Total Energies. 

Clean Aviation’s first call; Polaris spaceplane demonstrator; Bioinspired Venus flyer; and Robust hybrid-electric propulsion.

Under renewed European pressure against fossil fuels, Clean Aviation project sets research and technology framework for coming years.

The UK’s Cranfield Aerospace Solutions has secured £10.5 million ($13.8 million) in investment from HydrogenOne Capital Growth and Safran to develop hydrogen fuel-cell electric propulsion for aviation.

Amid sanctions triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine, many short-term and medium-term initiatives are in play to keep industry going.

ATI study concludes green hydrogen is most viable zero-carbon fuel, lays out goals with detailed future airliner concepts.

Wind tunnel tests intended to show that an unusual airfoil design could allow drag-reducing laminar flow to be passively maintained over a large percentage of a wings.

The UK defense ministry is looking to industry to provide it with a helicopter for VIP transportation.