Emerging Technologies

The Raytheon companies are developing a hybrid-electric technology demonstrator program.

Liquid hydrogen ground tests will begin later this year.

Rolls sees 2030 as the likely timing for service entry,

Raízen will help Embraer reach its target of having SAF blends representing 100% of its fuel consumption within Brazil by the end of the decade.

The question of whether the pursuit of zero-carbon flight should see the creation of a UK-based aircraft manufacturer divides opinion.

A novel aircraft maintenance project management app, eWork, has reduced maintenance completion and turnaround times by a quarter.

Gulf Air has launched its Flight Pass system in partnership with Option Town.

TripAdmit has been appointed by Vistara to drive sales of tours and activities.

The company is developing plans for aircraft that could support crewed combat aircraft in battle by the end of the decade.

A UAS operations veteran sees the health care industry as an early opportunity for AAM.

Following ICAO’s upcoming meeting in Montreal, governments should collaborate to adopt additional sustainability standards

Production and testing infrastructure will expand dramatically with a $2 billion investment in the latest Defense Department budget proposal.

Lockheed Martin’s rapid prototyping division defines new concept for collaboration between crewed and uncrewed combat aircraft.

High-definition 3D maps could pave way for soldier-robot teams.

Etihad Airways has entered a partnership with Junk Kouture, the world’s largest sustainable youth fashion competition.

Saudia has been named as the winner of the customer engagement award in the SkyTeam Sustainable Flight Challenge.

Textron is tapping into the market for low-cost intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft through new subsidiary Pipistrel, the Slovenian general aviation pioneer.

The findings could affect the flight testing of new concepts in the UK.

As NASA invites bids to build and fly its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, technology editor Graham Warwick and senior editor Guy Norris hear how this aircraft will differ from the agency’s prior X-planes. They talked to Rich Wahls, NASA’s newly appointed Sustainable Flight National Partnership mission integration manager at the AIAA Aviation 2022 conference in Chicago.

Pilots’ electronic flight bags are vulnerable to cyberattack, company finds.

TU Delft’s Flying V family, Electra’s hybrid savings, Stratolaunch readies Talon and hydrogen for heavy-lift airship.

Digital engineering helped Raytheon score the first U.S. flight test of an air-breathing hypersonic missile demonstrator since 2013.

X-59 Quesst Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator is in the final stages of assembly at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works.

Novel algorithm is behind startup’s claimed breakthrough

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.