Emerging Technologies

Safran Corporate Ventures’ collaboration with Metavonics may help streamline the avionics architecture of a more-electric single-aisle aircraft.

As high-energy lasers become weapons for countering small drones, the technology is on its way to demonstrating the potential to shoot down strategic threats.

The CASIC LY-1 laser weapon, revealed at Beijing’s Victory Day parade, features a larger aperture than the U.S. Navy’s Helios.

Stop-fold tiltrotor becomes X-76; Sikorsky tests hybrid powertrain; light-driven SAF production; and from nuclear power to liquid fuel.

In Europe, the U.S. and Canada, development of megawatt-class hybrid propulsion enters a critical phase.

Focused, practical steps, not grand designs, are necessary to attain the long-desired ideal of seamless intermodal transport, according to a new SITA report.

GE Aerospace has said it is moving into a new phase in its joint research with Airbus Helicopters into next-generation rotorcraft engines.

Future reliance on composites—for their lighter weight and ability to adopt more complex shapes—will require far-reaching adjustments at aerostructures factories.

Dassault Aviation has started building parts for its Vortex spaceplane demonstrator with the aim of building momentum for a project it wants to see flying as early as 2028.

Dassault Aviation has unveiled the long-awaited Falcon 10X business jet as it prepares for an intense period of flight trials.

Some 14 years after exiting the single-aisle engine market, Rolls-Royce is trying to get back into it, unveiling a new engine concept called the UltraFan 30—but can it break the CFM-Pratt duopoly?

Syzygy Plasmonics has signed an agreement to develop commercial-scale facilities in Brazil to produce SAF using biogas created from sugar crop waste.

Lufthansa Group has called on the EU to widen its electro-sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) mandate to include other transport modes.

Rolls-Royce has teamed up with UK project developer Equilibrion to explore whether small modular nuclear reactors could be used to power eSAF production.

French flow control, JAXA’s reusable rocket, hypersonic tunnel returns and laser link from GEO.

The middle mile between large freighters and van deliveries is notoriously inefficient. A new generation of startups is confident it has the solution.

Since Airbus announced it was delaying plans to develop a zero-emission airliner by up to 10 years, the landscape for hydrogen propulsion pioneers has changed.

Aviation Week takes the wraps off NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft as preparations begin for envelope expansion tests.

Plans to flight test CFM International’s Open Fan engine on an Airbus A380 are accelerating following the initial meeting of the Safran-led Take Off project.

After making progress with air traffic control procedures for fuel-saving formation flights, Airbus is transitioning fello’fly project work to the flight deck.

A series of Korean Air initiatives to enhance fuel management resulted in a 3.3% reduction in emissions in 2025 despite a 2.6% increase in flight operations.

AAM developers developers are increasingly leaning on simulation to overcome challenges that span pilot training, engineering and aircraft design.

Collins Aerospace has developed a common automation platform that would be a candidate for a new system the FAA envisions for its new air traffic control system

International Airlines Group (IAG) has shared key risk assessments and clauses that it includes in long-term sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) contracts.

The next-generation single-aisle aircraft Airbus is considering for program launch by 2029 may rely on avionics technology derived from its current offering.