Emerging Technologies

Embraer’s “start-up” business dedicated to accelerating the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) ecosystem, Eve, has signed an MoU with Kenya Airways through its subsidiary Fahari Aviation.

Computational modeling has transformed aircraft design, but conventional modeling approaches will not be enough for future challenges.

Efforts by NASA to develop a next-generation spacesuit face significant cost and schedule challenges that will push back its availability to April 2025 at the earliest, according to audit by the agency’s inspector general.

The test brings ZeroAvia a step closer to first flight of a Dornier 228 testbed powered by the system before the end of the year.

Emirates customers can now opt to pre-order and purchase duty-free retail items before they fly.

Plans for the center will be welcomed by the U.S. high-speed systems development community, which for years has highlighted the shortage of adequate centralized hypersonic test facilities.

The FAA is closing in on its first special condition for type certification of an electric propulsion system, and acknowledges that amending requirements developed over decades for piston and turbine engines is proving challenging.

Eurofighter nations green-light incremental upgrade package; LTE midlife update plans still await agreement.

Beta Technologies believes the most direct path to FAA certification of an electric aircraft is to keep the vehicle simple.

Reusable hypersonics; HAPS for 6G; funding for Elroy; Kitplane eVTOL; Air Methods medical drones; and hydrogen conversions.

The Singapore government is currently reviewing a feasibility study developed alongside industry players on mixing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with conventional jet fuel in a bid to increase the uptake of SAF in the island state.

Boeing says it will continue to be a “long-term strategic” investor in AEI HorizonX and remain the anchor investor for the current fund and AEI HorizonX’s first standalone fund planned for 2022.

German startup and Brazilian airline plan to establish a regional high-speed network starting in Sao Paulo.

Tests verify eVTOL’s low noise and long range on batteries—two fundamental goals for Joby’s concept.

Germany’s APC and wet-lease carrier Hi Fly work to improve the fuel efficiency of in-service A330s.

Collins Aerospace has begun integration testing of a next-gen vehicle management computer using multicore processors.

The Galileo Project was established to scout unidentified aerial phenomena following Pentagon report.

AeroCRS, which focusing on solutions for the travel industry, has partnered with Verloop.io to augment South Africa’s Lift Airline’s customer experience.

The European Union-funded project has devised a roadmap for a future propulsive fuselage airliner concept (PFC) after revealing better-than-expected potential fuel burn savings of 4.7% compared to an equivalent-technology conventional aircraft.

Air France KLM (Middle East) has announced the appointment of Simon Scholte as new general manager for the Middle East region, based at the regional headquarters at Dubai Airport Free Zone.

The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) has concluded its 2021 fuel programme for the period 2021-2022 under the framework of the AFRAA fuel project.

Startup Regent plans to have a piloted 12-passenger seaglider on the market by 2025 as a replacement for seaplanes and water taxis, followed by a 50-passenger vehicle that the company sees replacing not only ferries, but regional turboprops and jets.

In-space propulsion system is “like the diesel engine on Earth.”

Superconducting flight; Sensor-infused fans; VISTA readied for Skyborg; German suborbital spaceplane; and Joby hits range goal.

Few ideas in aerospace have been tried and have failed as often as high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing but, undeterred by the scores of past dead ends, the U.S. military is trying again.