Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia joins Aviation Week editors on Check 6 to discuss the sudden collapse of the $4.2 billion tie-up and its implications for both companies—and for Airbus.
The U.S. Air Force has expanded its interest in emerging electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft to encompass vehicles able to carry one-two people or more than 500 lb. of cargo.
Manufacturers of high-altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPS)–stratospheric balloons and unmanned aircraft–are touting a multibillion-dollar market opportunity in telecommunications, Earth observation and weather prediction.
Startup Skyryse is flight testing the software for the first application of its FlightOS automation system as it progresses toward certification of the aircraft-agnostic fly-by-wire (FBW) architecture on its first platform.
Embraer and Boeing are entering into a bitter public fight over who is responsible for the end of the proposed commercial aircraft joint venture, Boeing Brasil Commercial.
A team led by Slovenia’s Pipistrel Vertical Solutions has completed wind-tunnel tests to investigate and mitigate noise from distributed electric propulsion systems.
North American companies involved in building and operating small drones are proposing systems that could potentially be used in battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
