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By Steve Trimble
AFWERX has launched a six-week market research phase to understand the bourgeoning field of startup companies seeking to build supersonic and hypersonic transports.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
As the UK launches a series of projects under its Future Flight Challenge, a new study highlights the potential socio-economic benefits of an integrated aviation system built on freight-carrying drones, urban air taxis and hybrid-electric regional aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The UK’s first test site for sustainable aviation, including electric and hydrogen propulsion, is to be established at Kirkwall Airport in Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
Emerging Technologies

By Michael Bruno
Customers of TransDigm Group expect to pay roughly 2% higher prices this year from the key aerospace and defense parts provider, compared with an average of just 0.8% more across the whole aerospace supplier base, according to new survey results from Jefferies analysts.
Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
A digital blueprint for a medical delivery drone network that could connect hospitals, laboratories and surgeries across Scotland is to be developed under an 18-month project begun in December.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Single European Sky ATM Research, the organization coordinating European air traffic management research, has launched a project to develop and test a concept of operations for urban air transport of passengers and cargo.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Germany’s Volocopter plans concurrent certification and validation of its VoloCity electric air taxi in Europe and the U.S., enabling it to enter both markets simultaneously.
Emerging Technologies

An announcement from the Editor.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has adapted an H130 light helicopter as a flying laboratory to test technology for urban air mobility, hybrid-electric flight and new flight safety systems.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) pledged Jan. 21 to enforce a presidential directive requiring people to wear masks during interstate travel to prevent against the spread of COVID-19.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
As part of a “mask up for 100 days” campaign that new U.S. President Joe Biden has prioritized in his first days in office, most air travelers in America will be required to wear a mask until April.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
Organizers of the annual Aero Friedrichshafen international general aviation show have postponed the event in Friedrichshafen, Germany, until July 14-17.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Heli-Expo 2021 organizers have canceled the March trade show in New Orleans after many exhibitors and attendees decided to withdraw in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Helicopter Association International organizers announced Jan. 20.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Innovative Solutions & Support leaders are looking beyond Textron Aviation’s iconic King Air turboprop for its new ThrustSense Autothrottle, a product that gained attention recently when Textron Aviation announced the King Air 260 and King Air 360.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Global Aviation Technologies is growing with new projects, including installations of the Innovative Solutions & Support ThrustSense Autothrottle, new starter generators and alternators for special-mission King Airs, and a new inflight entertainment system, called Goji Geotainment, offering movies, music and Hollywood-quality stories about places passengers are flying over.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Graham Warwick
Bell has flight tested a different configuration for its Autonomous Pod Transport unmanned cargo aircraft to show that the vehicle design is flexible and can be scaled and customized for potential customers.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Transporting passengers between London City and London Heathrow Airports is one potential application of urban air mobility in the UK that will be studied by a consortium led by Eve, the spinoff from EmbraerX.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Vehicle developers ranging from Airbus to startup Ascendance Flight Technologies are among 30 companies that have been selected to participate in urban air mobility testing in Paris beginning in June.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Private jet travel bookings are expected to return to 2019 levels in 2021, although private business travel is expected to rise to 85% of 2019 levels, according to predictions by European-based Air Charter Service.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
The number of used business jets for sale in January declined 18% compared to a year ago, while average list prices decreased 11%, according to a report by Jefferies Group.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Counting drones among his final priorities as U.S. president, Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 18 that directs the heads of federal agencies to determine if they have legal authority to stop using, acquiring or funding the purchase of foreign-made unmanned aircraft systems.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
The pre-owned helicopter market continued to recover in the fourth quarter of 2020, although sales remained below those in 2019, largely due to the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the fourth-quarter 2020 Heli Market Trends report by Aero Asset, based in Toronto.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Electric motor developer MagniX is consolidating its global operations near Everett, Washington state. Electric aircraft startup Eviation, a sister company of MagniX, is building a final assembly, flight test and delivery center in Arlington, just north of Everett.
Emerging Technologies

By Michael Bruno
Leading Tier 1 supplier Spirit AeroSystems and the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) have inaugurated a new kind of federally backed, discounted-rate lending for aerospace suppliers—beginning with a $40 million transaction based on receivables from Spirit’s lower-tier providers.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Environmental groups have joined with 12 U.S. states and the District of Columbia to file a lawsuit challenging adoption of the first CO2 standards for aircraft, arguing they will not reduce greenhouse gas emissions from aviation.
Safety, Ops & Regulation