Aircraft & Propulsion

Rolls-Royce CEO Warren East said he is confident about a rapid recovery of the air transport sector after the pandemic led the company to a £4 billion ($5.6 billion) loss in 2020.

Babcock is to sell its offshore oil and gas support helicopter business to CHC in a further consolidation of the offshore helicopter industry.

German aviation engineering services specialist Apus Group has begun construction of a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered four-seat aircraft which it plans to fly in mid-2023 and hopes to have on the market by 2025.

NASA electrifies propulsion; turbo air-cooled fuel cell; hydrogen power-train testbed; and funding boosts Volocopter.

The unnamed suitors are proposing to purchase the two companies—Piaggio Aviation and Piaggio Aero Industries—which form Villanova d’Albenga-based Piaggio Aerospace.

Rolls-Royce has been selected to provide the electrical propulsion system for Vertical Aerospace’s gull-wing VA-X4 urban air mobility aircraft.

Olivier Dassault was the son of the late Serge Dassault and grandson of Marcel Dassault, who founded the French aviation firm before World War II.

Boom Supersonic has secured a strategic investment from the venture capital arm of American Express which will support development of the Denver, Colorado-based aerospace company’s Mach 2-plus 88-seat Overture airliner project.

The arrival of vaccines has airlines hoping they will begin to emerge from their worst crisis. But what will the industry look like?

A secret program inside GatorWorks seeks to deliver a high-speed, reusable propulsion system.

Kelly Ortberg’s quiet departure from the executive ranks of Raytheon Technologies was a jolt to some veterans in the aerospace business community, where he has long been regarded as an exceptional talent in the prime of his career.

In a sign of progress toward sustainability goals, the aviation industry has set out a plan to achieve carbon-neutral growth by 2050.

Startup Venus Aerospace plans to proceed with the development, testing and production of a small hypersonic aircraft capable of transporting a dozen passengers or time-critical payloads between major continental destinations in an hour.

Similar to the electric flying car-focused Agility Prime program, the purpose of Vector Prime is to establish a vehicle for the Air Force to support commercial companies working on supersonic and hypersonic transports.

Kelly Ortberg, the former head of Collins Aerospace who was a key leader in the supplier’s melt-up into Raytheon Technologies, has left its executive ranks, company representatives confirmed.

Suite of video cameras provides unprecedented view of what it is like to land on Mars.

Industry expects actions from U.S., Europe and other governments in 2021 to encourage production of low-carbon aviation fuels.

Short-seller attack on Chinese startup EHang highlights the risks to investors in a nascent market.

Cutting jobs, closing factories, reducing purchase costs but protecting research and technology investment: Safran finds a new balance.

Reverse merger with blank-check investment vehicle will vault Joby to the top of the UAM valuation league.

A redesign of the inlet on the Northrop Grumman B-21 was completed before the final configuration of the stealth bomber was frozen in November 2018, according to the U.S. Air Force.

Rolls-Royce’s ACCEL high-speed electric-powered aircraft has completed its first taxi tests ahead of flight testing.

Growing e-commerce and shifting transportation modes are positive signs for air cargo.

Liquid-hydrogen prototype; lenticular rotors; GPS in GEO; emergency-response eVTOL; and flying car advances.

A request for information released Feb. 24 by Air Education Training Command introduced the new “Introductory Flight Training - Rotary Wing” concept for the Air Force’s cadre of pilots slated to fly a helicopter fleet.