U.S. startup Rain Industries has unveiled an autonomous firefighting demonstrator aircraft, the MK2, with plans to showcase a rapid initial wildfire response and containment with the uncrewed rotorcraft.
2Excel had 18 aircraft based at Doncaster but has been forced to move its fleet to Teesside and Humberside airports, after Doncaster Airport’s owners Peel Group announced it would close the airport in September.
As countries jockey for a leading position in the projected market for advanced air mobility (AAM), a new study concludes the transportation mode would be economically viable in the UK and provide a significant contribution to the economy while reducing carbon emissions.
Inspections are underway of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, which rode out a Category I hurricane at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B, with launch on the Artemis I flight test still targeted for Nov. 16.
In a joint technology demonstration, United Launch Alliance and NASA tested a 20-ft.-dia. inflatable heat shield that is intended to pave the way for a future rocket engine recovery system for ULA and a system for NASA to land heavy, human-class missions on Mars, among other uses.
Iran has built a hypersonic ballistic missile designed to evade and defeat air defense systems, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force said on Nov. 10.
Advanced Space LLC will demonstrate a spacecraft at a location about 200,000 mi. from Earth that can monitor other objects in the cislunar region, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced on Nov 10.
The U.S. will send four Boeing AN/TWQ-1 Avenger air defense systems to Ukraine as part of the latest batch of $400 million in aid, along with additional Stinger missiles and munitions for Hawk air defenses.
Spun out of automotive electric motor developer Yasa before it was acquired by Mercedes-Benz in 2021, UK startup Evolito is preparing to deliver its first aerospace-grade motors to customers in the first half of 2023 for early testing.
As a vast swath of aviation is turning to hydrogen as a central path to a sustainable future, some efforts are beginning to crystallize into concrete advancemen
Pratt & Whitney is expanding research work with NASA under the agency’s Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core project to demonstrate the compatibility of sustainable aviation fuels with advanced combustors for small core engines.
Archer Aviation and United Airlines have announced that their first electric air taxi route will be between Newark Liberty International Airport and New York’s Downtown Manhattan Heliport.
Flights connecting Scotland’s islands to the mainland, described as lifeline routes for remote communities, have been a focus of early interest from proponents of sustainable aviation alternatives.
Members of the UK’s DragonFire consortium developing a high-power directed energy weapon are gearing up for tests that will see the laser used in operationally representative scenarios.
A community funded program to upgrade the avionics suite of Airbus’ out-of-production H120 turbine light helicopter has secured its first commercial customer.
European drone cargo airline Dronamics has partnered with the UK’s Cranfield Aerospace Solutions to integrate hydrogen fuel cell propulsion into its Black Swan long-range uncrewed cargo aircraft.
A ramjet-powered, hypersonic demonstrator vehicle named Sexbomb will be moved from Canada to the UK to start ground testing, startup Space Engine Systems said on Nov. 7.
