Aerospace Emerging Technologies

Dec 08, 2025
A house aviation subcommittee meeting turned unexpectedly combative as Beta Technologies CEO Kyle Clark clashed with lawmakers over electric aircraft.
Dec 08, 2025
Confident about overcoming design challenges, Aura Aero presses on with hybrid-electric ERA development.
Dec 08, 2025
GoAero eVTOL prize progress; wind farm radar clutter; Archer licenses tiltrotor tech; and JAL expands atmospheric sampling.
Dec 04, 2025
The agency’s Lift Challenge aims for at least a fourfold increase in drone payload-to-weight capability.
Dec 03, 2025
GoAero Prize announced eight teams that will move on to the 2027 fly0off for it's $2 million competition to create VTOL emergency response aircraft.
Dec 12, 2025
Concentrating investment at key “hydrogen hub” airports will provide a practical and cost-effective path to early adoption, a new study says.
Dec 11, 2025
The French Environmental Authority (Ae) is recommending Aura Aero provides more details and analysis on the environmental impact of its factory.
Dec 11, 2025
AVIC says it has conducted the first flight of a large uncrewed aerial system called SS-UAV Jiu Tian, or Nine Heavens, designed to be a drone mothership.
Dec 10, 2025
Boeing’s latest ecoDemonstrator Explorer, a United Airlines-owned 737-8, successfully conducted flight tests in Europe and the U.S.
Dec 10, 2025
Saab plans to fly an uncrewed aircraft in 2026 using a software-defined fuselage as part of an initiative to optimize processes to field equipment faster.
Dec 09, 2025
Boom Supersonic is developing an industrial gas turbine version of its Symphony turbofan to power AI data centers which will fund its Mach 1.7 Overture airliner.
Dec 08, 2025
Outbound, one of three U.S. startups known to be working on BWB commercial aircraft, is shutting down—and a co-founder is sharing lessons learned.
Dec 08, 2025
Beehive says Frenzy test results for performance, ignition at altitude, operability, and durability “met or exceeded challenging Air Force requirements.”