Aircraft & Propulsion

French startup VoltAero has been selected to conduct demonstration flights in the Netherlands and Germany with its Cassio 1 hybrid-electric propulsion testbed.

Airlines and lessors are increasingly vocal about Boeing aircraft delays.

Europe’s airlines, fresh from the biggest crisis in their history, are facing up to the next big challenge: Fit for 55.

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

U.S. startup Natilus is conducting wind tunnel tests of the initial regional feeder member of its planned family of blended wing body uncrewed cargo aircraft.

To meet growing demands to decarbonize aviation, plans to build sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plants continue to proliferate, with new projects taking shape from Spain to Sarawak.

Following up on an MOU signed in October 2021, CRJ certificate holder MHI RJ Aviation Group has agreed to provide engineering services and aircraft integration and certification support for the retrofit of CRJ700 regional jets with ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-electric propulsion system.

“We’re having 50-to-100-year events every year now,” says Accenture Research Principal Director Jeff Wheless.

A year-end deadline that would force changes to uncertified 737 MAX variants could trigger a showdown with lawmakers.

Safety management system sits at the center of a push to change the company’s direction.

South African energy company Sasol and German research center HZB plan to lead a three-year project to develop next-generation catalysts to improve the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using the Fischer-Tropsch process.

Taking a nontraditional approach to the potential development of future sustainable aircraft, Embraer has completed the first startup “pitch day” under its Energia initiative.

Ground infrastructure will have to evolve to accommodate eVTOLs.

Boeing says it is on track to strengthen its engineering discipline, enhance oversight, improve safety management and encourage transparency and openness with its 140,000 employees.

Facing a deadline that would require major changes to uncertified 737 MAX variants, Boeing continues to argue the status quo—and keeping the family as similar as possible—is the safer course of action.

Honeywell is developing a suite of alternative navigation technologies to combat increasing disruption of GPS signals, intentional and unintentional, with the first products planned to be on the market in 2023.

Airlines for Europe (A4E) has estimated that the European Commission’s Fit for 55 proposal—a wide-ranging package of sustainability regulations—could cost the industry €34.4 billion ($36.3 billion) per year by 2050.

Leasing companies are working together to support the global air transport’s collective goal of meeting 2050 net-zero carbon emission goals. The

Japanese government considers removing more restrictions, which will help international travel recovery.

UK vertiport developer and drone operator Skyports plans to explore establishing a ship-to-shore delivery infrastructure in Singapore.

Longstanding Airbus avionics supplier Honeywell says its new generation flight management system (FMS) will be offered on all future A320, A330 and A350 airliners from late 2026 onward.

Aerostructures supplier Daher has partnered with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology to develop a welding technology for the assembly of primary aircraft substructures made from thermoplastic composites.

Almost three months on from the initial shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the long-term impacts of the ongoing conflict on commercial aviation and aerospace are becoming clearer.

Regional jet OEM has issued an RFI to engine-makers for a powerplant that features 20% lower fuel burn.

Fuel producer Phillips 66 has received approval from county officials to proceed with its proposal to covert an oil refinery in Rodeo, California, to the production of renewable fuels including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).