Emerging Technologies

The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) is making a clarion call to governments and stakeholders to harmonise the health protocols, reconsider the bans and adopt a risk-based approach.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
EasyJet to provide large-airline perspective to project, converting small commuter to hydrogen-electric propulsion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Regent Craft has teamed with Rhode Island-based marine and aerospace composites specialist Moore Brothers to build a quarter-scale technology demonstrator for its seaglider, an electric wing-in-ground-effect vehicle for harbor-to-harbor overwater regional transportation.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Environmental regulations for aviation, such as mandates to use sustainable aviation fuel mandates and hydrogen technology certification, should be backed by an international framework set out by ICAO, a French parliamentary report says.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Abu Dhabi Airports marked 40th anniversary of the official opening of Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH) on January 2.
Airports & Networks

By James Pozzi
Plans to develop a maintenance/repair/overhaul (MRO) cluster at Twente Airport in the Netherlands are to be pared back in favor of exploring services related to testing new technologies and opening to business aviation flights as the site’s organizers plot a long-term pathway.
Emerging Technologies

Ethiopian Cargo and Logistics Services has launched a new feature that enables customers to make online reservations for their cargo.
Emerging Technologies

Airport and airline CIOs are betting on technology to support their recovery from COVID-19, this is according to new findings from SITA's 2021 Air Transport IT Insights.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Hydrogen air transporters; Cryogenic materials testing; Fuel-cell ambitions; Scalable sustainable fuel; and New Zealand’s solar UAV.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Zero-emissions propulsion developer ZeroAvia has selected Paine Field as the location for a flight research center to support development of a hydrogen-electric powertrain for the De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 regional turboprop.
Sustainability

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. Navy officer asked the Skunk Works representative at the Lockheed Martin exhibit booth an impromptu question during the U.S. Air Force’s Weapons and Tactics Conference in the fall of 2020.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Thierry Dubois
While Airbus and the European industry are accelerating research and technology work to replace current aviation fuels with hydrogen, experts in atmospheric science and propulsion are debating the contrail potential of the zero-carbon fuel.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Startups may pioneer single-pilot operations in regional turboprops, but also create a virtual co-pilot in light aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Finalizing aircraft certification plans and filling out the mobility ecosystem are priorities for 2022.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
China’s eVTOL leader shifts strategy from aircraft sales to mobility service.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The time to wait and see is over, with Airbus, Embraer and others stepping up their commitment to the AAM market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Developers of eSTOL aircraft believe the limitations of battery technology are best overcome by using 300 ft. of runway
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
AT&T, Verizon and the FAA agree to pause 5G network start until Jan. 19
Connected Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

Saudi Arabia’s Power for Defense Technologies Company (PDTC), has signed an agreement with Navratana Defense PSU, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) India, to bring India and Saudi Arabia closer through the promotion of defence and aerospace technologies.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
After playing out through most of 2020 and 2021 for the electric vertical takeoff and landing industry, the process of assembling memorandums of understanding, letters of intent and other expressions of interest to bolster fundraising drives is underway in other parts of the evolving advanced air mobility market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
AST SpaceMobile, a newly public company aiming to establish a space-based cellular broadband network for smartphones, has offered a peak inside its 85,000-ft.2 manufacturing headquarters in Midland, Texas.
Emerging Technologies

Moment has signed an agreement with Air Côte d'Ivoire to provide a premium cabin experience, relying on the deployment of the portable entertainment system (W-IFE), Flymingo Box.
Emerging Technologies

Royal Jordanian (RJ) and Tamatem, a Jordanian based mobile games publisher, have sealed a contract to launch in-flight games on RJ flights to enhance passenger experience.
Emerging Technologies

By William Garvey
Many ag operators initially viewed ag “drones” as threats but now see them as complementary rather than competitive.
Aircraft & Propulsion