In-city trials for eVTOL vehicles in 2020 will provide key feedback on the public acceptability of urban air mobility.

The commercial market is growing and the military market is in transition, as unmanned aircraft continue to reshape aviation.

Virgin Galactic conducts sole U.S. human spaceflight in 2019.

Air-launched, anti-missile interceptors and defensive lasers are set to take the next step in development.

Lockheed Martin has extended its long-running hypersonic links with Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Commercial drone deliveries and military “loyal wingman” unmanned combat aircraft—two applications that came to fore for the UAV industry in 2019.

A conference agreement by the House and Senate on Dec. 16 inserts at least three-quarters of a billion dollars in fiscal 2020 budget accounts linked to the U.S. military’s bulging hypersonic weapons portfolio.

NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology research aircraft remains on track to make its first flight in 2021.