Aircraft & Propulsion

Its $75 million Falcon 10X will take on Gulfstream and Bombardier in the ultra-long-range market—and aims to correct a mistake made decades ago. Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss with analyst Richard Aboulafia.

After several OEMs exited the regional market, dominant airframers Embraer and ATR are devising new strategies.

Wright Electric hits milestone; Pyrotechnic protection; Wisk teams with Blade; Beta flies for USAF; AKKA helps Aura Aero; Dufour funding.

Morgan Stanley has significantly reduced its forecast for the urban air mobility (UAM) market by 2040 and now expects regulatory hurdles to result in a substantially slower ramp-up in commercial services than anticipated.

This webinar took place May 7, 2021. With COVID-19 having dealt a huge blow to regional airlines, it is unclear how soon their appetites for new

While Roc flight tests hog the limelight, Stratolaunch is quietly developing the Talon-A hypersonic testbed—Roc’s primary payload.

The company aims to regain its position at the top of the business-jet market, which it started losing 28 years ago.

Startup Wright Electric has begun testing the megawatt-scale power inverter that is a key building block in development of the electric propulsion system for its planned single-aisle airliner.

What now in the post-pandemic world? During several recent trade shows, webinars and Aviation Week interviews, advisors and analysts have shed light on where they think industry giants are going next and why.

Scottish fuel-cell specialist Hy-Hybrid Energy is working with an undisclosed partner on a hybrid-electric propulsion system for aircraft that combines a gas turbine with a battery and a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) that operates on jet fuel.

The slow pace of Leonardo’s AW609 program has not benefited from the global pandemic.

ZeroAvia testbed crash; Lufthansa deploys riblets; MightyFly’s autonomous logistics; Wingcopter’s triple drop; Hydrogen startup funding.

Europe’s industry sees itself in a time crunch for sustainability, but budget negotiations on the Clean Sky follow-on program drag on.

ZeroAvia’s plans to demonstrate long-distance hydrogen fuel cell-powered flight have been set back after its demonstrator aircraft was involved in a landing accident.

Up to five test runs of the rotorcraft are planned by May 4.

Internal production headwinds slow but still persist.

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

Dave Calhoun is giving himself a dual mandate of returning Boeing to financial eminence while reinstalling engineering prowess. The gambit could decide the embattled company’s fate.

Ask the editors: Longer-haul electric aircraft will depend on better energy storage, higher power densities and greater efficiencies.

The VC-25B program took a $318 million write-off in the first quarter of 2021 because of supplier challenges related to the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to Boeing.

April is a stormy month in the Western world, and in aerospace and defense, it lived up to its reputation with the winds of change blowing through the C-suites of industry.

Depressed commercial aerospace returns still could not dampen earnings or sentiments at Raytheon Technologies after the company April 27 reported its mildly better-than-expected financial results for the first quarter of 2021.

Germany’s Wingcopter on April 27 introduced the Wingcopter 198, a triple-drop delivery drone that is undergoing the FAA type-certification process in the U.S., the manufacturer said.

Following steady growth in commercial air travel and growing demand in the military aircraft market over previous years, it seemed like 2020 would be

As new materials and fuel technology advance, NASA gets serious again about nuclear space propulsion for missions to Mars and beyond.