HEXCEL broke ground on new Hexcel Applications Center at Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) for advancing composite materials, automated processing, and aerospace manufacturing innovation.
Japanese startup AstroX and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plan to demo an attitude control system for a rocket suspended from a high-altitude balloon.
In researching aerostructures technologies it could offer on a future narrowbody, Spain's Aernnova is giving precedence to ease the cost of manufacturing.
Indian startup BluJ Aerospace is developing a family of electric and hydrogen-electric VTOL aircraft aimed first at cargo and logistics missions, with passenger service planned as a longer-term goal.
If Gulf governments were to address the asymmetry between international compliance obligations and the absence of a domestic framework, it could prove a renewed incentive for further emissions intensity reductions.
Draco Aircraft is looking to secure a third investor that should give it sufficient capital to launch a development and certification program of its Wilga PZL-104-based platform.
Skyfly plans to begin transition flight testing of its Axe personal eVTOL later this year while targeting first flights of a second aircraft by year’s end.
AeroDelft, a student-run foundation at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has begun taxi tests of a gaseous hydrogen-fueled light aircraft.
