Aircraft & Propulsion

With a famous name in aviation and following industry giants, Benoit de Saint-Exupery must sell more aircraft as production slots grow scarce.

The airframer hopes the narrowbody A321XLR will make new long-haul routes economically viable.

Aviation Week editors go back through the archives to the origins of supersonic flight, revisiting key programs and exploring the issues that are still challenging high-speed aircraft designers today.

Airbus says it is targeting ambulance and medical services as an early market for its eVTOL system, follow the unveiling of its four-person CityAirbus NextGen.

Located at Piedmont Triad International Airport, the facility is sized for an initial rate of 33 aircraft per year.

As Airbus has increasingly globalized the production of its A320-family narrowbodies, the matter of which FAL builds what variant has come into focus.

European officials have approved an extra fuel tank the A350-1000s Qantas will use for ultra-long-haul flights.

Energy-storing structure; load-optimized cabin walls; Europe’s flying ship project; and solar fuels take a step forward.

The FAA and European Union Aviation Safety Agency have updated their eVTOL certification guidance to narrow the gap between their approaches.

Airlines are on the verge of placing hundreds of orders for widebody jets. Listen in as editors and analysts discuss what’s behind the impending order boom.

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

Archer Aviation’s Midnight electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle has completed its first transition flight.

With funding from an NTT Docomo-led consortium, Aalto is moving more quickly into production of the solar-powered stratospheric aircraft.

The global market for sustainable aviation fuel is at a turning point as most of the fuel consumed in 2025 will be under a mandate, SkyNRG says.

Although shareholders have put more money into advanced air mobility, getting government loans could still be crucial, and avoiding program delays will be key.

While the risks to the global economy and aviation are obvious, growth is good, and many new aircraft orders are imminent.

Sustainable aviation fuel cuts contrails; MTU progresses fuel cells; medical evacuation drone; and vertical-takeoff-and-landing cargo drone in the UAE.

Engineers are exploring potential configurations for the system, which the company hopes to fly in 2027, according to Dominik Strobel, PioneerLab’s program manager.

Aviation Week journeys into the stratosphere on Scaled Composite’s high-altitude Proteus experimental aircraft—a one-of-a-kind testbed.

The tests of an advanced compressor rig design will mark the completion of two related propulsion technology efforts aimed at next-generation geared turbofans.

Rome has given the greenlight to Safran's takeover of Microtecnica from RTX after concerns over the supply of components to defense programs were addressed.

Scaled Composites, which has built and flown a new aircraft roughly every year since forming in 1982, is still expanding in its 17th year with Northrop Grumman.

Daher’s board of directors has appointed Didier Kayat as the group’s chairman of the board to succeed Patrick Daher, who is retiring.

Comac has jointly established the Large Aircraft Research Institute with Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, China.

The Pentagon’s advanced research agency has selected six teams to develop preliminary designs for a shipborne VTOL uncrewed aircraft.