Aerospace

Aviation Week Network spoke with Scott Kittrell, Director of Aerospace, PwC, and Michael Holland, Director of Aerospace and Defense at PwC, about the

With support from a NASA Tipping Point technology development award, Mojave, California-based Masten is developing a suborbital aerospace testbed with an option for point-to-point payload transportation.

EHang is accelerating its initiative to identify urban air mobility routes as the Chinese startup transitions to being an operator of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing autonomous air taxis.

Airflow has named Paulo Cesar Silva to its advisory board.

As more electric aircraft projects advance into prototype flying, requirements for flight-test capabilities and infrastructure are increasing.

Honeywell is continuing its push into the advanced air mobility market with the selection of its small satellite communications system to provide beyond-visual-line-of-sight connectivity for Pipistrel’s Nuuva family of hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned cargo aircraft.

Among the technologies integral to managing high-density airspace, fully autonomous aircraft, and air taxis are detect-and-avoid systems that allow aircraft to maneuver around weather, turbulence, obstacles and other aircraft.

Costain will assess the conditions required for storing hydrogen and the impact of its use on aircraft turnaround times at airports.

Oman Air and Oman’s Football Association have agreed to operate two special charter flights to fly Oman’s National Football Team to Japan for its upcoming World Cup 2022 Qualifying Match.

SpaceX is encountering shortfalls of liquid oxygen due to increased demand for oxygen by hospitals caring for COVID-19 patients.

A wave of newly minted publicly traded space companies is hitting the marketplace and sustaining investment confidence, hinting at more to come.

As rival SpaceX prepares for a tourist mission, Boeing is wrestling to pull off uncrewed flight test.

Organizers have postponed the Latin American Business & Aviation Conference and Exhibition 2021 planned for November, the second year the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a change of dates.

Startup HyPoint has entered into a $6.5 million collaborative agreement with Piasecki Aircraft to develop a hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system for electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.

NASA plans to send a wide range of science and technology investigations to the International Space Station on an upcoming SpaceX resupply mission.

The Etihad Aviation group has a new chairman. Mohammed Ali Mohammed Al Shorafa was named as the new head of the global aviation and travel group by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.

Etihad Airways has launched the latest in a series of initiatives celebrating the UAE’s golden jubilee year.

PteroDynamics has received a U.S. Navy contract to deliver prototype vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft for a program to develop a capability to autonomously deliver cargo to and from ships at sea.

Lynne Hopper, a central figure in the 737 MAX recovery effort, has been named the new vice president and general manager of Boeing Commercial Airplanes' recently centralized Engineering Strategy & Operations (ES&O) group.