Although shareholders have put more money into advanced air mobility, getting government loans could still be crucial, and avoiding program delays will be key.

While the risks to the global economy and aviation are obvious, growth is good, and many new aircraft orders are imminent.

Sustainable aviation fuel cuts contrails; MTU progresses fuel cells; medical evacuation drone; and vertical-takeoff-and-landing cargo drone in the UAE.

Aviation Week journeys into the stratosphere on Scaled Composite’s high-altitude Proteus experimental aircraft—a one-of-a-kind testbed.

Scaled Composites, which has built and flown a new aircraft roughly every year since forming in 1982, is still expanding in its 17th year with Northrop Grumman.