Emerging Technologies

By Alan Peaford
Data is clearly the fuel that will drive the future of aviation and L3Harris is at the heart of the technological development that supports this move.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Wing of Tomorrow; carbon-neutral fuel; autonomous ag tie-up; Kama’s unmanned Kargo; and doors for the Heart.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Backed by China’s electric carmaker XPeng, HT Aero has unveiled details of its X2 autonomous two-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
By confronting ideas, including inconvenient numbers and opinions, the company is helping difficult but must-have conversations take place now.
Emerging Technologies

By Jen DiMascio
Singapore’s UAS teaming test; Boeing to make Loyal Wingman down under; U.S. titanium imports down; and Raytheon expands AESA radar sales.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
One year after unveiling the concept, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury characterizes a hydrogen-powered aircraft as challenging but doable.
Emerging Technologies

John Slattery
We need a vast, collective effort to develop and mature capabilities and technologies that will dramatically accelerate our progress.
Sustainability

By Steve Trimble
China canceled a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System in 1973, but Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall warns the concept may be revived.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Experienced Pentagon veteran calls for return to a more conventional approach to innovation after era of open-ended demonstrations.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Thierry Dubois
ATR senior executives are looking at Universal Hydrogen’s plans for a modular liquid hydrogen storage and logistics system and appear to be ready to cooperate, providing the capsule’s safety features are deemed solid.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois, Tony Osborne
Airbus has been gathering positive signs that its 2035 ambition for a hydrogen-fueled commercial aircraft is realistic.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Emirates is the first airline to implement the International Air Transport Association's IATA Travel Pass solution on six continents as it rolls out this digital health pass to customers at all its destinations.
Emerging Technologies

SITA has achieved CarbonNeutral company certification. The milestone resulted from decisive actions to significantly reduce emissions associated with its business operations in 2020.
Emerging Technologies

Etihad Airways is giving all of its guests travelling into or via Abu Dhabi a complimentary ticket to Expo 2020 Dubai, the biggest cultural gathering in the world taking place between 1 October 2021 and 31 March 2022.
Aerospace

By Lori Ranson, Ben Goldstein
Embraer’s E175 has become the darling of U.S. regional carriers, but changes to scope clauses and new turboprops could change that.
Airlines & Lessors

By Tony Osborne
The EBS system uses a 100-kW electric motor connected to the main gearbox which could provide up to 30 sec. of additional power in the event of an engine failure, allowing the pilot to make a safe auto-rotation landing.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
Under the name Volocopter (Chengdu) Technology, the new venture aims to offer UAM solutions to China.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The startup has decided it wants to start flying people as soon as possible and so will certify the autonomous single-seat Heaviside H2 now in flight testing as its entry into the market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Reaching a target of 10% SAF use by 2030 will require the scaling up of production to at least 9.5 billion gal./year from the less than 10 million gal. produced in 2020.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
As Airbus is exploring several technologies to drastically cut and eventually annihilate an aircraft’s CO2 emissions, its design engineers are considering micro-hybridization as a starting point in electrification.
Emerging Technologies

An all-new Gulfstream G700 has set its first-ever city-pair speed records from Savannah to Doha, Qatar, and then from Doha to Paris.
Business Aviation

Expo 2020 Dubai's must-see aviation attraction is gearing up to open its doors to the public on 1 October and the Emirates Pavilion will offer a preview for the future of commercial aviation.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Heart Aerospace has selected a supplier to complete preliminary design of the doors for its ES-19 all-electric 19-seat regional airliner while Deutsche Aircraft has chosen a company to produce the wing box and engine supports for its D328eco 40-seat regional turboprop.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Engine makers face more questions than answers as they plot future turboprop hybrid-electric evolution strategy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Fuel supply mandates, blenders’ tax credits, voluntary targets are all in the mix as SAF becomes the near-term path to sustainability.
Emerging Technologies