Clean Aviation

By Graham Warwick
P&WC advances hybrid propulsion; GE’s hybrid Passport success; Europe’s Clean Aviation launches ultraefficient regional projects; UAE orders uncrewed VTOLs.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
As Airbus continues to review airframe and propulsion options for its NGSA A320 successor, it details key priorities driving its technology selection decisions.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
The four projects aim to ready technologies for a hybrid-electric regional aircraft entering service in 2035, as part of the Clean Aviation public-private initiative.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Hybrid regional propulsion advances, Windracers pushes scheduled cargo drones, and Luminary speeds uncrewed combat designs.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Discussions are underway within Europe’s Clean Aviation program as to the scope and content of the next public-private research initiative.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
The Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability is testing a vibration-based system to deice the wing and other surfaces in flight.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Hybrid focus for Clean Aviation; exhaust additives reduce contrails; point-to-point cargo eVTOL demo; and anti-jamming for urban air taxis.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Hybrid-electric propulsion for narrowbody airliners is a focus of the European Clean Aviation research program’s fourth call for proposals.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
ATR received a request from the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking to fly a demonstrator in 2029.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Printing small turbines; cooling hybrid-electric; non-CO2 effects limit SAF; and Hamburg research projects.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking (JU) has selected 12 projects for a combined research and technology budget of $1.1 billion.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris, Thierry Dubois, Jens Flottau
Airbus and MTU have outlined a three-step roadmap for development of a commercial aviation hydrogen fuel-cell engine announced at the Paris Air Show.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Clean Aviation and SESAR have led a call to the European Union to support €66 billion of required sustainability investment between 2028 and 2034.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Hydrogen fuel cell suppliers are engineering powertrains to enable zero-emission aircraft propulsion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Long-endurance Pipistrels; hybrid certification advances; fuel cell propulsion testing; and 3D-printed hydrogen tank.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
The timeline for Clean Aviation relies on 2035 for service entry to enable the replacement of 75% of the fleet with more sustainable aircraft by 2050.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Clean Aviation executives are striving to firm up plans, even though they have slipped to the right, for both hybrid-electric and hydrogen propulsion.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Rolls-Royce aims by mid-year to freeze the design of a smaller UltraFan geared turbofan demonstrator, signaling its intent to target the single-aisle market.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois, Guy Norris
Airbus is focusing on a “realpolitik” approach to accelerating innovation into products in the nearer term.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
European airframers and engine makers expect to develop their next-generation products using greener technologies demonstrated under the Clean Aviation program.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
In a changing world, the dual civil-military use of new technologies and EU competitiveness emerge as additional priorities in the Clean Aviation program.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick, Guy Norris, Thierry Dubois
The zero-emission airliner delay leaves advancing hydrogen to startups that are focusing on retrofits and smaller aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
China’s electric first; Europe’s regional certification; Dutch LH2 demo; and South Korean eVTOL.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Flight testing of a hybrid-electric powertrain on an ATR 72 demonstrator has been included in the third call for proposals for Clean Aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility