Aerospace

Because of limitations on biomass feedstock availability, power-to-liquid SAF is widely seen as the best longer-term path to decarbonizing aviation.

The Federal Aviation Administration in a statement said the aircraft, operating as American Airlines Flight 5342, was on approach to DCA's Runway 33.

A crippling lack of key indigenous infrastructure and skills continues to hold back India’s defense industry, despite rising investment.

Lithuanian startup Airvolve has adopted horizontal-axis cyclorotor propulsion to develop a compact middle-mile logistics uncrewed air system.

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane has completed a series of payload integration tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida which keep it on track for a planned mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.

Without a blueprint, startups plan to start small with existing infrastructure then build out vertiports as volume increases.

Bunce, a general aviation champ “writ large,” welcomed rotorcraft-makers, promoted unleaded avgas and opposed privatizing air traffic control.

The company has not set a timeline for the operational rollout of deliveries.

Test flights of the tiltwing aircraft from Zurich have included transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and back.

The 2,000-kg (4,400-lb.) gross weight electric aircraft received its Chinese type certificate in March 2024.

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Haffner Energy, LanzaJet, and LanzaTech are exploring SAF production opportunities inc. commercial plants, joint technology licenses and offtake opportunities.

Airbus Helicopters sees continued strong demand in the Middle East after boosting total orders by around 10% in 2024 across civil and military markets.

New biomass and e-fuel projects are getting underway, but European SAF volumes still have a long way to go.

Novel hydrogen hybrid; NASA eyes cryogenic testing for aviation; Partners promote electric aviation; Clean-sheet firefighter.

China’s EHang has joined the European Union-funded Urban Supply Aerial Vehicles for Emergencies (U-SAVE) project.

The 255,000-ft.2 Seaglider Manufacturing Facility is located in Quonset Industrial Park in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.

Located at the agency’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, NASA’s Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) is available to industry and academia.

The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at addressing the key challenges of charging infrastructure and pilot training.

Even said a strategic review of the program concluded that battery technology had not yet evolved to meet the minimum level of performance.

The company is providing no time frame for this planned expansion of its reach.

Four international bodies representing pilots and air traffic controllers have called for urgent action to address “ongoing” jamming and spoofing of GNSS.

As the Trump administration considers more economic sanctions against Russia, the aerospace industry is advised to brace for difficulties in titanium supply.

SkiesFifty has teamed up with Frontline BioEnergy to ramp-up waste-to-energy sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production to commercial scale across the U.S.

The World Defense Show (WDS) will be held 8-12 February 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in partnership with Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI).