Aerospace

Eviation progresses; XTI logs orders; Aergility’s cargo eVTOL; Hexa in production; and Jaunt eyes Canada.

HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, president of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, CEO and founder of the Emirates Group and chairman of Dubai World, officially inaugurated Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2021 this morning

Funded by the UK’s Future Flight Challenge, the Air-One hub is scheduled to open in central Coventry, England, later this year.

Changing needs of military advantage will challenge traditional business practices.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Promising results from next-generation adaptive combat engine tests augur well for follow-on variable cycle power developments.

Details of the operating cycles for GE’s new-generation adaptive engines remain sparse.

The next two piloted flights to the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz MS spacecraft later this year will be carrying civilians—a film crew first, and later, tourists.

Use of autonomous aircraft for emergency care is to be tested in Helsinki in spring 2023 under the European-funded AiRMOUR project.

Arqit, a four-year-old British startup aiming to provide quantum encryption for communications, announced May 12 it will become a publicly traded company after a two-step merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

The startup did not identify the operator or its market sector, but the 40-aircraft order, plus an option for another 40, is “committed and in hand,” XTI CEO Bob LaBelle said.

The end appears to be in sight for the Atlantic’s Organized Track System as airlines turn to environmentally op-timized routes.

The former senator pledges a bipartisan approach to the space agency and continued support for commercial space.

Airbus revolutionized commercial aviation by introducing fly-by-wire. No one pushed it more than Bernard Ziegler who has died at age 88.

Textron will not immediately enter the urban air mobility market, despite its “enormous amount of technological capability,” as the battery technology has not advanced enough to support it, Textron’s top executive says.

Tim Conver, who took over the then-spunky UAV pioneer AeroVironment in the early 1990s, will retire as chairman at the company’s 2021 annual shareholder meeting.

Startup Aergility is working with an unidentified strategic partner to develop a vertical-takeoff unmanned cargo aircraft using its “managed autorotation” technology to increase range and payload.