Aircraft & Propulsion

In a bid to find an effective and immediate way to cut aviation’s contribution to global warming, one of the busiest air traffic control centers in Europe is conducting live tests of vertical flight profile-based action to avoid the formation of contrails.

Airlines are looking to fly more point-to-point long-haul routes with smaller, more efficient aircraft.

Oversupply to market has yielded big, young in-service fleets, which means the current lull has, in part, been a self-inflicted wound.

Garmin International announced on May 25 that it has acquired AeroData, a provider of aircraft performance software to airlines and business aviation operators, for an undisclosed price.

The aerospace and defense industry is dividing—not between commercial aviation and defense work, but between new markets that are focused on product innovations, such as in space and urban air mobility, and those more focused on business innovation.

To be sure, commercial aircraft delivery funding fell off a proverbial cliff last year. Guess again if that means much for the future.

There’s new thinking about aviation carbon reduction.

India’s carriers are looking to IPOs, share sales and changes in ownership to improve their long-term viability.

Recovering passenger demand coupled with airlines’ push for more cost-efficient operations could soon drive narrowbody production rates past where they were before the 2020 downturn, Triumph Group President and CEO Dan Crowley said.

Operators in and out of bankruptcy are making fleet adjustments to remain competitive.

The agreement would clarify the manufacturer’s positions on using third-party alternatives such as parts repairs on its engines, and what, if any, ramifications such cost-saving moves have on warranties and other services.

Drag-reducing boundary-layer ingestion could cut the fuel burn of a future twin-aisle airliner by more than 3% compared to an equivalent-technology conventional aircraft, a European research project has concluded.

“Together with the renewal of our fleet, sustainable aviation fuels constitute our main lever in the medium term for reducing our CO2 emissions per passenger/km by half by 2030,” Air France-KLM CEO Ben Smith said.

The founder of lessors ILFC and ALC tells Aviation Week’s CAPA Live that Boeing “needs to get their act together” on 737 MAX program.

Erik Lindbergh hopes to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his grandfather’s historic first solo transatlantic flight in 2027, only this time with a hybrid electric aircraft.

Volocopter has unveiled a larger, longer-range electric vertical-takeoff air taxi aimed at expanding its planned urban air mobility service out to the suburbs.

A trove of new information is emerging on the amount of relatively easy financing available for anyone who wants to buy an airliner.

Ryanair may not be able to deploy any 737 MAX aircraft this summer as delivery delays persist; CEO cites Boeing "mismanage[ment]."

After several OEMs exited the regional market, dominant airframers Embraer and ATR are devising new strategies.

Airbus revolutionized commercial aviation by introducing fly-by-wire. No one pushed it more than Bernard Ziegler who has died at age 88.

Turkish LCC Pegasus Airlines plans to operate a fleet almost entirely made up of Airbus A320neo family aircraft by 2025.

Based on Airbus’ latest thinking that single-aisle demand will return sooner than expected, the OEM is resuming preparatory work for a new narrowbody final assembly line in Toulouse to be operational by the end of 2022.

The joint venture is owned equally by both parties and its incorporation is expected in the next few months.

Boeing’s Commercial Airplanes unit delivered 17 aircraft in April as an increase in 787 hand-overs was more than offset by problems in the 737 program that limited deliveries to just four and continue to keep aircraft idle.

Austrian Airlines’ long-planned retirement of its De Havilland Dash 8-400 fleet has left the carrier with a capacity gap beneath its smallest jet aircraft, the Embraer E195, on short-haul routes.