Aircraft & Propulsion

The trial will be a follow-on to a similar one performed earlier this year with an A350.

Aiming to meet its long-term expansion plans, Spring Airlines is looking to buy nine Airbus A320s and a flight simulator.

Alessandro Profumo is upbeat about the future of post-COVID-19 European defense capability.

Regional air mobility startup Electra has unveiled its first commercial product, a hybrid-electric aircraft designed to fly a pilot and seven passengers up to 500 mi. with takeoff and landing distances of just 100 ft.

Regional airline Ravn Alaska has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with startup Airflow for 50 electric logistics aircraft.

After examining a range of scenarios, the airline decided it is better to receive the aircraft now rather than deferring them, IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta said during IndiGo’s latest results presentation.

Leaders expect a smaller, more streamlined supply chain to emerge as aircraft OEMs struggle to reach or exceed pre-pandemic rates.

Airbus booked seven new gross orders and delivered 50 aircraft to 32 customers in May, continuing momentum following the year-long downturn that has airlines revamping their fleet plans.

The art of succeeding in the global aircraft duopoly is anticipating and taking advantage of the competitor’s weaknesses.

Joby Aviation has laid out its road map to achieve type certification of its electric air taxi and obtain its air operator certificate in order to begin commercial aerial ridesharing services in U.S. cities in 2024.

Heathrow Airport has integrated sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) into its fuel distribution in a proof of concept that the airport hopes will lead to greater quantities being used in the future.

The latest issues holding up Boeing 787 deliveries will be resolved soon, the OEM said, and its target of handing over about 100 aircraft in its inventory by year-end remains realistic.

Almost two decades after Concorde retirement, United’s Boom Overture order is strongest signal yet for commercial supersonic revival.

Embraer has received EASA certification for the E190-E2 regional jet to operate into London City Airport (LCY), a major European business hub.

Boeing plans to evaluate 20 new technologies later this year on an Alaska Airlines-owned 737-9 under the eighth round of the OEM’s long-running ecoDemonstrator program.

The United deal, which also covers options for 35 additional aircraft, envisages introduction of the first civil supersonic services on trans-Atlantic and Pacific routes by 2029.

“It would be more efficient to have only one type of aircraft,” COO Francesco Sciortino said. “We also need a long-term perspective for a replacement for the Boeing 767.”

Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific are making slow progress in restoring their networks as key border reopenings remain elusive.

Sat, as they are capacity-wise, between regional aircraft and the big-selling single-aisle narrowbodies, crossover narrowbody jets are designed to

All Nippon Airway's Airbus A380s have been absent from scheduled service since March 2020.

Merlin’s autonomous King Air; EHang’s bigger eVTOL; Near Earth on VoloDrone; MagniX’s electric seaplane; OneWeb’s beam-hopper.

Within a budget request for aeronautics research in fiscal 2022 of $914.8 million, up from $828.7 million enacted for 2021, NASA plans to accelerate the launch of the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator program to produce a full-scale, ultra-efficient subsonic X-plane.

An electric-powered sailplane designed to ease challenges of training glider pilots has completed its experimental test phase and is being prepared for industrialization under a European-funded project.

A four-seat hybrid-electric aircraft is being prepared for flight tests under a European research program.

British aerostructures and aviation parts maker Senior Plc has been jockeying with a distressed-asset investment group, which recently made an offer to buy Senior for about $1.05 billion, the company revealed May 28.