Emerging Technologies

Etihad Airways has won “Environmental Sustainability Innovation of the Year” award at CAPA’s annual Environmental Sustainability Awards for Excellence in Singapore, as well as “Best Airline for Sustainability 2022” award by Business Traveller USA.

Aviation Week editors discuss two of the biggest events of the year for military aviation, how they went down and what they mean for the future.

New bomber is touted as the first sixth-generation aircraft, with advances in stealth and range named as key features.

Airbus is concerned the industry is not moving fast enough toward its net zero target and is shifting focus to hydrogen fuel cell tests.

Modified Cessna Skymaster plays key role in Canadian low-emission aviation program research effort.

A twofold specific energy improvement is sought in batteries, seen as the weak link so far in a hybrid-electric architecture.

Using carbon for SAF; Automation for UAM; Net-zero jet fuel; and Electrifying ground support.

Advanced aviation message handling system (AMHS) from Frequentis has been put into operation in ASECNA member countries.

The formula for a net-zero aviation fuel that would pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere when burned has been developed by researchers.

Flight tests have been conducted to demonstrate how automated ATM could be used to avoid conflicts between autonomous air taxis and crewed aircraft.

Airbus Summit attendees were urged to focus on the emerging problems of hydrogen leakage and a lack of standards, applicable also to sustainable aviation fuels.

The new Office of Strategic Capital aims to help with the development of key technologies with new connections to funding.

As a further step in studying the use of superconductors in an electric-propulsion architecture, Airbus has signed a partnership agreement with CERN.

The initial proposed guidance covers the design specifications for vertiports supporting piloted eVTOLs flying visual operations only.

The partners will share best practices for design concepts and evaluate which of 53 Latin American airport sites may be most ripe for vertiport deployment.

Airbus has unveiled its DisruptiveLab, a new flying laboratory designed to test technologies destined to improve aircraft performance and to reduce helicopters’ CO2 emissions.

United Airlines is looking ahead to electrification of its ground operations.

Airbus plans to flight-test a hydrogen fuel cell engine on its modified A380 testbed, as it already intended to do with a hydrogen-fueled turbofan.

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury warned the aerospace industry is not moving fast enough.

The cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon conducted the demonstration over the past 10 months.

Airbus Helicopters hopes demonstrator can prove out technologies to reduce their carbon emissions by 50%.

Another foundation has been laid for advanced air mobility in the EU with the adoption of the European Drone Strategy 2.0.

Listen in as Aviation Week editors report from the Airbus Summit in Toulouse.

Turning commercial air travel into a sustainable, carbon net-zero industry will make flying more expensive and airlines may have to change their business models, experts acknowledge.

The European aircraft maker, Airbus SAS, expressed its commitment towards the realisation of sustainable aviation.