Aircraft & Propulsion

Airshow China, due to be held at Zhuhai Airport on Nov. 10-15, has been postponed, the organizer said, without mentioning a new date.

VoltAero has begun flight-testing the most powerful version of its hybrid-electric power train for regional transportation.

Development of compact, efficient rotary internal-combustion engines able to run on jet fuel has been boosted by U.S. Army contracts to advance the technology for unmanned-aircraft propulsion and rotorcraft auxiliary-power applications.

With the second largest helicopter fleet in the world, Canada has launched a program to develop the technologies, supply chain and regulations for advanced air mobility, including urban and regional cargo and passenger transportation.

Prismatic’s PHASA-35 high-altitude pseudo-satellite has been fitted with a sensor payload and been taken through simulated cold soak testing to prepare it for stratospheric flight.

The new variant takes the Airbus A330-900's maximum take-off weight (MTOW) to 251 tonnes, a nine-tonne increase on the previous 242-tonne figure.

The startup describes the flight from Camarillo to Hayward in California as “the longest flight to date for any commercially relevant aircraft employing electric propulsion.”

Fleet upheavals caused by the coronavirus pandemic may have an impact on the feedstock available for conversion.

HAPSMobile flies high; Islander automated; multifuel UAV engines; NASA’s X-59 slips; Russia targets quiet supersonics; fresh fruit by autonomous aircraft.

After losing to Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s inaugural transport layer contract award, L3Harris Technologies realized it must alter its strategy to win.

Proposed sales of both the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Finland have been given a green light by the U.S. State Department.

Startup Boom looks ahead to flying its XB-1 scaled demonstrator in 2021 and going supersonic by year-end.

Listen as Aviation Week editors Sean Broderick and Guy Norris discuss the latest ups, downs and relocations at Boeing.

Ask the Editors: Airbus is committed to the A330neo for a few reasons, despite slow orders. The larger A350 serves a different market.

Automotive fuel cells are taking to the air, but more development is needed to make them suitable for aircraft use.

European Commission plans to incentivize investment on a large scale so hydrogen may contribute to climate goal.

As ETOPS runs for 777X GE9X engine get underway, GE sets sights on flow-inducer validation tests.

An inside look into the U.S. Army’s radical experiment, Project Convergence, a sensor-to-shooter demonstration.

BEA’s persistence on three research campaigns leads to a potentially far-reaching discovery of metal fatigue on GE-Pratt GP7200 turbofan.

Despite much evidence to the opposite, the public’s image of hydrogen in aviation was set by the 1937 Hindenburg fire.

Misfortune and its own missteps in culture, leadership and technology have sapped the British engine maker of its value.

Water vapor from hydrogen-fueled aircraft will generate more contrails, but research is needed to understand persistence and mitigation.

Findings in the investigation of an Air France Airbus A380 “accident” may have consequences for engine design and manufacturing.

Advanced combustors and new thermodynamic cycles are under study to exploit the energy potential of liquid hydrogen fuel.

Nordic countries committed to electrifying aviation are initial targets for Swedish startup.