The seventh and final year of NASA’s Environmentally Responsible Aviation project is on target for a grand finale: the goal of simultaneous cuts in drag, weight, fuel burn, noise and emissions seems eminently doable moving forward.
As bypass ratios increase and engine cores get smaller, Pratt & Whitney comes up with a unique solution to the challenges of small scales inside future turbofans.
Ethiopian Airlines is to be recognised as the Official International carrier for the upcoming Aviation Outlook Africa conference and exhibition to be held from June 30 – July 01, 2015, in Johannesburg.
Test flights are getting underway of a Boeing 757 with an actively blown vertical tail and new wing-leading-edge sections, which could pave the way for the wider use of natural laminar and active flow control technology in future airliner designs.
Moth inspires agile thinking; aerospike rocket looks for liftoff; tethered UAVs for safer cities; Amazon a step closer to delivery drones and other unmanned news
Elytron Aircraft plans to begin flight tests this summer of a two-seat, proof-of-concept tiltwing aircraft designed to take off and land like a helicopter but operate from point to point at fixed-wing speeds.
Snowstorm shuts down Washington but fails to halt Aviation Week’s 58th annual Laureate awards ceremony, which salutes aerospace sector’s high achievers.
Greg Morris recognized early in the game just how important additive manufacturing would become. His vision and drive helped spur GE Aviation on a mission that culminated in 3-D printing in its latest engines.
Two winners took home Aviation Week’s Innovation Laureate for 2015—Raytheon and Saab pursued different routes to achieve the same outcome—introducing gallium nitride power electronics to military radar and electronic-warfare systems.
AAR Airlift has been awarded a contract by the United Nations for airlift services in Central Africa. The contract is valued at approximately $19 million.
Delta World Charter (DWC) and Air Partner successfully operated a cargo relief flight on February 25 2015 from Al Maktoum International Airport to Conakry, Guinea.
Jeppesen,and AvPlan Electronic Flight Bag (EFB), an iPad-based EFB service are teaming together to integrate AvPlan EFB flight planning capabilities with Jeppesen navigation information.
Earlier this year the Labour Relations Amendment Act (LRAA) took effect (with the exception of s37(c)) and the South African aviation sector now has to comply with the new obligations created in the Act.
JAXA tries again with quiet-supersonic D-Send; Lockheed adds UAS information to FAA flight services; U.K. extends X-ray inspection to large composites; Russia’s air-cushion UAS; Kickstarter crowdfunding bid for collision-avoidance system.
