The National Business Aviation Association hailed the final passage by the U.S. House of Representatives of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that contains measures to support efforts to attract and retain aviation workers, fund improvements for general aviation airports and spur next-generation programs.
Gur Kimchi, co-founder of Amazon’s drone delivery service Amazon Prime Air, has joined the board of directors at Near Earth Autonomy, which is working to develop safe and efficient autonomous flight capabilities.
U.S. House members on Nov. 4 passed a bipartisan bill in support of advanced air mobility that would establish an AAM interagency working group to review policies and make recommendations to further the technologies and infrastructure for the new transportation capability.
McKinsey & Co.’s Robin Riedel says approximately $12 billion in funding has flowed into advanced air mobility over the past decades, “a meaningful number.”
The family of Energia-branded concepts—with all-electric, hybrid-electric or hydrogen-fueled propulsion for low emissions and noise—are aimed to enter into service between 2030 and 2040.
Julie Dickerson, CEO of Shannon Engine Support (SES) talks to Mark Pilling about the business of engine leasing and also the change is ownership structure with AerCap buying the shareholding formerly with GE.
Airbus will showcase a wide range of products, innovations and services that are leading the way to a sustainable future for aerospace at the Dubai Airshow 2021.
Wright believes that by 2026 both hydrogen and aluminum fuel cells can meet its requirement for around 10 megawatt hours of energy storage on the BAe 146 to enable 1-hr. flights on routes of 400 nm or shorter.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched an initiative to accelerate the commercialization of decarbonizing technologies by leveraging collective demand from companies prepared to commit to purchases by 2030.
The Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium (CAAM) has released a report on the potential of Toronto as an early market as it works toward releasing a national road map for Canada.
Austria’s CycloTech is in discussions on the first application of its cyclorotor electric propulsion system after completing initial hover flight tests of a subscale demonstrator.
Heat-exchanger technology developed by Reaction Engines for its Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine could help transform ammonia into a green aviation fuel.
In 2022, the U.S. Air Force plans to have government pilots fly prototype eVTOL aircraft on military bases as part of the Agility Prime program, to evaluate potential use cases as the service moves toward fielding an initial tranche of vehicles in fiscal 2023.
A discussion with Lux Capital Co-Founder Josh Wolfe and Partner Bilal Zuberi about where the venture capital investment company is placing its bets and how it pinpoints successful new aerospace and defense technologies.
