Aircraft & Propulsion

French startup VoltAero has begun flight testing its electric regional-aircraft testbed equipped with motors supplied by Safran Electric & Power.

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Startup vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft developer Transcend Air is poised to start flight tests of a revised scaled version of its tiltwing Vy 400 intercity transport vehicle

Battery thermal-management company Kulr Technology Group has developed a design for lithium-ion batteries that prevents cell-to-cell propagation of a thermal runaway.

Finnair will work with Finnish oil company Neste to increase the airline’s use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and boost production capacity in Finland.

Russian aerohydrodynamic institute TsAGI has completed a new series of wind-tunnel tests on a low-drag, low-noise concept for a short-range airliner.

Irelandia Aviation, the company behind five different low-cost carriers around the world, has invested in Skyports, a UK developer of infrastructure

Boeing’s failure to ensure sensors linked to Collins Aerospace-supplied head-up guidance systems (HGS) delivered to customers were approved for use under the applicable supplemental type certificate (STC) has prompted the U.S. FAA to propose a $19.7 million fine.

Norway electrifies; Boom slips; repairing satellites; GoFly unfinished; Joby flies for NASA; fluidic propulsion.

A report commissioned by the Norwegian government recommends Norway should be a driving force in the development, testing and early implementation of electrified aircraft.

Key helicopter programs to protect new UK carriers are behind schedule, so race is on to get them ready for the first deployment.

Aircraft manufacturers and suppliers widely expect the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis to result in a short, sharp shock to the air transport sector, but nothing disruptive yet to their business models, according to comments made during the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 2020 Aviation Summit.

The COVID-19 outbreak and the disruption it is causing to international travel could hit industry-wide orders for long-haul aircraft, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury told a Mar. 4 hearing of the French senate’s economic affairs committee.

Following the exit of Bombardier, Airbus is digging deeper into what it can do to make the A220 profitable fast.

Finnish procurement officials say they expect all five contenders in the country’s HX Fighter competition to remain in the race until the end.

Boeing is offering a thrust-compounded helicopter for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program.

Tier 2 manufacturer Senior will continue its move away from the U.S. Pacific Northwest and elsewhere and toward locating more work in Asia, as well as continuing to shop the British company’s aerostructures business, executives said Mar. 2.

Safran executives are expressing cautious optimism that any decline in commercial aftermarket demand linked to COVID-19 will be short-lived but acknowledge that it could be sharp.

Hybrid-electric 50-seater; medical delivery eVTOL; South Korea targets UAM; Electric commuter; Climate research.

WICHITA—Spirit AeroSystems missed 2019 fourth quarter profit expectations, marred by production cuts on the Boeing 737 MAX and a loss on the 787 widebody jet pr

Rolls-Royce has reported losses of £852 million ($1.1 billion) as the company continues to tackle issues around the Trent 1000 engine.

IAG cut its growth target from around 3% to 2% and may end up below that figure should the crisis worsen, according to CEO Willie Walsh.

The fallout from COVID-19 coronavirus is set to complicate the long-haul LCC's financial situation after losses widened in fiscal 2019.

FAA certification was anticipated by the end of 2019 but has not occurred yet.

Safran is adapting to the production halt of the Boeing 737 MAX, finding ways to mitigate the financial consequences, but the company is already measuring job cuts in four digits.