Airline information technology provider SITA is to supply its Smart Path biometric identity management technology as a component of the passenger journey through vertiports to be developed by the UK’s Skyports.
Boeing delivered just seven 737 MAXs from its stored inventory last month, the third consecutive monthly decline. New-build delivery trends have been better, but not much.
Panasonic Avionics hopes that the lower weight of its new seatback connectivity system means that it will be installed on regional aircraft and narrowbodies as well as IFE systems’ more traditional home of widebody platforms.
Long-range narrowbodies are destined to retreat to a relatively narrow range of routes once the market recovers sufficiently for widebody fleets to fully return to service, an audience at AIX heard June 14.
The Netherlands’ government has backed a Dutch consortium’s plan to develop a hydrogen-electric propulsion system for retrofit into 40-80-seat regional turboprops.
Airbus and Japan’s Kansai Airports have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at exploring the use of hydrogen fuel at Kansai International Airport, Osaka International Airport and Kobe Airport.
Global aviation can reach near-zero carbon emissions by 2050, but it will require early, aggressive and sustained government intervention that triggers widespread investment in zero-carbon aircraft and fuels, concludes a report by the nonprofit International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).
Spirit AeroSystems is delivering more Airbus A320 content than the manufacturer is currently using, helping build a buffer that will support steadily rising production rates.
Building on its involvement in a UK project that set a speed record for electric aircraft, energy storage specialist Electroflight has introduced a battery system designed to be available off the shelf for use in the early development of electric aircraft.
“Several airframers in commercial aviation are ready to go ahead with single-pilot operations,” says a Toulouse-based professor in an aerospace engineering course. “And they are waiting for one another to go first.”
European sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) manufacturers could produce 1.83 million tons of e-kerosene in 2030, saving about 5 million tons of CO2, but it must be of the right type, according to European campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E).
Canada’s first private-equity fund dedicated to the aerospace supply chain is targeting $100 million and already has garnered commitments for $77 million, officials said.
Regional turboprop lessor Monte Aircraft Leasing has agreed to purchase up to 100 hydrogen-electric powertrains from zero-emission propulsion startup ZeroAvia for installation on new and existing Cessna Caravans and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters as well as Dornier 228s and HAL-228s.
Deloitte Consulting has launched a Wichita “Smart Factory” officials call the “art of the possible,” using advanced technology to focus on the future of manufacturing.
Lengthening certification timelines shows the regulatory landscape is changing, but industry will adjust to the new expectations, a top Honeywell executive says.
Airlines and aerospace manufacturers are all too aware that meeting the industry’s 2050 net zero target represents a huge long-term challenge, financially, technologically and operationally.
Singaporean state investment company Temasek has committed an initial $5 billion to launch GenZero, an investment platform dedicated to accelerating decarbonization globally.
Aircraft concepts using hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) are in a neck-and-neck race at the midpoint of a German research project to develop designs for climate-neutral commercial airliners that could be operational by 2035.
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A new program for a clean-sheet airliner from Boeing is still “at least a couple of years” away from being formally launched as the airframer hones the digital tools it will rely on to differentiate the aircraft, Boeing CEO and President Dave Calhoun told an investor conference June 3.
