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By Graham Warwick
Lilium's chief operating officer explained to Aviation Week why certification of its Lilium Jet had slipped.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Citing the need for local policymakers to understand the emerging technologies, the World Economic Forum has launched the Advanced and Urban Aerial Mobility Cities and Regions Coalition.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
U.S. prime defense technology provider L3Harris Technologies and Silicon Valley venture capital firm Shield Capital announced a partnership March 29 to invest in emerging defense and commercial technology startups.
Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Aphelion Aerospace, a five-year-old startup targeting nanosatellite launches with its proposed environmentally friendly fueled rocket, is launching a crowdsourcing funding effort.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Struggling helicopter original equipment manufacturer MD Helicopters is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to allow the company to be restructured under new ownership.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim, Graham Warwick
U.S. unmanned air logistics company Volansi has unveiled its largest and longest-flying aircraft to date.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
NATO has awarded contracts to begin risk reduction and feasibility studies in support of the Alliance Future Surveillance and Control program that will replace the alliance’s fleet of Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning platforms in the 2030s.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

General Electric and the U.S. Air Force have begun ground tests of the XA100 adaptive cycle combat engine at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
As part of long-term plans to pave the way for the adoption of sustainable aviation fuel by the U.S. Air Force and other military services, Rolls-Royce will test the engine destined for the Boeing B-52H retrofit program with 100% low carbon fuel around midyear.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) wants to acquire its own flying testbed for rapid development and demonstrations of equipment.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The contract awards come as the UK retires the majority of its Hawk T1 fleet as part of cost-saving measures introduced in the government’s Integrated Review published last year.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Kim Minseok, Chen Chuanren
North Korea may have used an improved Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile in disguise for its claimed Hwasong-17 test on March 24.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
With Swiss International Airlines as its first customer, solar kerosene startup Synhelion has selected Germany’s Ineratec to provide the Fischer-Tropsch technology required to produce carbon-neutral aviation fuel using concentrated sunlight.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
EHang is targeting mid-2022 for Chinese certification of its EH216-S autonomous two-seat air vehicle and preparing to announce the first group of Chinese cities where it plans to launch commercial urban air mobility services in the second half of the year following airworthiness approval.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
D-Fend Solutions, a five-year-old Israeli counter-drone company with a growing North American presence, plans to become a publicly traded company, co-founder, Chairman and CEO Zohar Halachmi told Aviation Week in March.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Dave King, who took over as chief executive of Dynetics in 2015 to shepherd the company’s breakout and ultimately successful sale to Leidos in 2020, is stepping aside.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
These aircraft programs were the big winners in the Biden administration's fiscal 2023 budget request, with the Lockheed Martin F-35 topping the list.
AWIN Knowledge Center

U.S. Transportation Command is again looking at the number of Lockheed Martin C-130s the military now needs and its intratheater airlift requirement in the future, as the U.S. Air Force in its latest budget request is again looking to trim its Hercules fleet.
Budget, Policy & Operations

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AWIN Knowledge Center

By Tony Osborne
The UK aerospace industry has broadly welcomed a government decision to provide £685 million ($897.2 million) in funding for the Aerospace Technology Institute to accelerate the development of green aviation technologies.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Startup HyPoint has partnered with an aerospace R&D company to combine its aircraft fuel cells with liquid hydrogen tanks and offer manufacturers the ability to carry more hydrogen for greater range.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Singapore has become the 18th country and first in Southeast Asia to join the Artemis Accords, multinational commitments aimed at encouraging a peaceful, sustainable and beneficial use of space and its exploration.
Space

By Michael Bruno
The EPFL Space Center, an outgrowth of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, has been selected as the lead organization to stand up a Space Sustainability Rating index and it intends to issue its first certifications imminently.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
U.S. defense officials have selected a unique pairing of Navy and Army systems to defend Guam from a theorized barrage of Chinese ballistic and cruise missiles, the head of the Missile Defense Agency says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Startup HyPoint has partnered with an aerospace R&D company to combine its aircraft fuel cells with liquid hydrogen tanks and offer manufacturers the ability to carry more hydrogen for greater range.
Aircraft & Propulsion