Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Personal eVTOLs showcased; nuclear power for SAF; 3D-printed turbojet; and a large cargo UAS.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
Wars in Iran and Ukraine have convinced Singapore that airpower is no longer business as usual.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
China conducted the first flight of a domestically developed 3D-printed turbojet engine in November 2025.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Robert Wall
Dassault Aviation says it has invested $200 million in the Series B funding round of French artificial intelligence startup Harmattan AI.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Quantum sensing is ready to transition from the laboratory to operations, led by ultrasensitive magnetometers for magnetic navigation.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Now backed by orders from AI companies for its Superpower industrial derivative, Boom Supersonic’s Symphony development gains momentum as core tests approach.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
XCF Global has signed an MOU to evaluate the use of small modular nuclear reactors for the power-to-liquid production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
The Zero Engine Taxi eTaxi system electrically drives one of the aircraft’s main landing gear wheel sets using power from the auxiliary power unit.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo’s AW609-based Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor Technology Demonstrator is testing wing, propulsion and fly-by-wire concepts to derisk future designs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Indra and RTX have been awarded contracts to replace the FAA’s ground-based air traffic control (ATC) system radars.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Norris
The insatiable energy demand of artificial intelligence datacenters continues to drive surprising new developments in the aeroderivative gas turbine business.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
The American system of innovation is like a quantum system: It is nondeterministic, everywhere all at once, exploring a multitude of possibilities.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Automated Black Hawk; Eve’s eVTOL flies; Arctic auroral radar; controlling thin wings.
Emerging Technologies

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The UK government has launched a call for evidence on the use of crop-based feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Garrett Reim
DARPA is taking a hard look at the quizzical, quantum-mechanics-based hardware.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
Quantum sensors and navigation could be deployed soon while other technologies are years from reality.
Emerging Technologies

Erik Lindbergh
The aviation industry today faces challenges that were unimaginable in 1927, yet the path forward still begins with bold dreams, fortitude and shared conviction.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
“Nobody understands quantum mechanics,” said Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Hybrid focus for Clean Aviation; exhaust additives reduce contrails; point-to-point cargo eVTOL demo; and anti-jamming for urban air taxis.
Emerging Technologies

By Bill Carey
A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to ban Chinese-made drones for communications has instilled uncertainty among public-sector users.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Expirations of temporary mitigation measures and lack of improved radio altimeters have commercial air transport markets facing new threats from 5G interference
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
The wind-tunnel trials tested active control of a high-aspect-ratio wing while controlling the thin, flexible wing’s response to maneuver loads and gusts.
Emerging Technologies

By Robert Wall
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has signaled a desire to revitalize the agency’s aeronautics program, calling for more experimental X-planes.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Eve Air Mobility conducted the long-awaited first flight of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing engineering prototype on Dec. 19.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Onera has started using a new test facility for structural materials, applying new methods to a Clean Aviation project on airframes for hydrogen propulsion.
Emerging Technologies