Aircraft & Propulsion

EASA provides industry with the first concrete guidance on certification requirements for AI in safety-critical applications.

Leaders expect a smaller, more streamlined supply chain to emerge as aircraft OEMs struggle to reach or exceed pre-pandemic rates.

Joby Aviation has laid out its road map to achieve type certification of its electric air taxi and obtain its air operator certificate in order to begin commercial aerial ridesharing services in U.S. cities in 2024.

NASA subsonic X-plane; Joby rooftop vertiports; Eve’s eVTOL partner; Electric Euroglider; airport hydrogen flight; JAXA’s rolling robot.

Customer order to convert King Air fleet to autonomous flight capability indicated growing maturity of the technology.

Almost two decades after Concorde retirement, United’s Boom Overture order is strongest signal yet for commercial supersonic revival.

Swiss artificial-intelligence startup Daedalean has completed a second study with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency to develop concepts for

All across Europe components for Leonardo’s Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor are coming in readiness for year-end final assembly.

Electric Power Systems has unveiled its first certified commercial battery system for electric-powered aircraft.

Both Airbus and Boeing are looking at big boosts in production of their narrowbody jets. But with some regions of the world still closed to outsiders, the widebody market is a different story.

Airbus Helicopters has performed the first retrofit to convert a four-blade H145 twin-engine light rotorcraft into a five-blade model.

Validating the quiet supersonic performance of NASA’s X-59 QueSST low-boom flight demonstrator will require precise measurement of the shock waves generated by the aircraft and how they propagate through the atmosphere to the ground.

U.S. startup Exosonic has completed low-speed wind-tunnel tests of its concept for a low-boom supersonic airliner.

New products, new investment and new operating partners keep advanced air mobility market moving forward.

Propulsive fuselage; Moon connectivity; Klimov’s hybrid-electric design; Lilium Jet networks; certified batteries; and Osaka’s vertiport.

If the first quarter is any indication, A&D is about to throttle up share buybacks and dividend payments into afterburn.

Japan’s Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) has joined a growing list of regulators to certify Airbus’ newest helicopter, paving the way for All Nippon Helicopter to take delivery of the H160.

Airbus adds to A321neo production with a modernized final assembly line in Toulouse to meet both market demand and political needs.

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

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.

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

Russian Helicopters is planning to display a modernized version of its Kamov Ka-32 co-axial rotorcraft at the MAKS airshow this July.

Collins Aerospace has been selected by Lockheed Martin to provide avionics for NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft and by Dassault Aviation as a supplier on the new Falcon 10X ultra-long-range business jet, the company said in a media presentation on May 11.

Aviation transformation is no longer just about urban air taxis, but also a regional connectivity.