Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Chinese electric air taxi developer EHang is adapting its business model to become an operator as well as the manufacturer of its autonomous air vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
A return of scramjet and solid-fuel ramjet investment signals a shift in global hypersonic weapon priorities.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has carried out a new flight test program of its Zephyr solar-powered pseudo-satellite, focusing on low-altitude flying, ascent and descent.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have revised their bilateral arrangement to cover the certification of aviation innovations such as eVTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
To enable operators to quickly benefit from its enhanced vision system, ATR has focused on simplicity and restricted its use to landing.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
The reality is still not yet on par with the visions for a broad range of aviation industry dreams.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Regional turboprop manufacturer ATR is ready to start training pilots on a new piece of commercial aviation safety equipment—an enhanced vision system (EVS) and accompanying head-mounted display.
Maintenance & Training

By Graham Warwick
VerdeGo powers XTI TriFan; Seoul stages UAM demo; and Embraer powers up electric partnership.
Emerging Technologies

James Vedda and Karen Jones
The U.S. should be at the forefront of high-capacity power-beaming to lead the technology rather than be dependent on others for it.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
Future carbon-neutral commercial aircraft should benefit from a favorable tax policy to help the technology gain traction, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said.
Sustainability

By Irene Klotz
Measurements of ocean heights provide real-time indication of Earth’s changing climate.
Space

By Bradley Perrett
In bringing back samples, Chang’e 5 will demonstrate technology that China will need for sending people to the Moon.
Space

By Graham Warwick
A French startup has unveiled plans to develop a hybrid-electric light aircraft as a step towards a hydrogen-fueled six-seat regional aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on governments worldwide to support the development of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) as a critical step to achieving its target to cut net emissions to half 2005 levels by 2050.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
A human pilot dogfighting against an AI-controlled adversary takes the step from virtual simulation to live flight.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Aircraft Towing Systems World Wide is building a prototype of its fuel-saving electric towing system.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Supersonic business jet developer Aerion has teamed with satellite company Spire Global to supply the high-fidelity weather data critical to the aircraft maker’s goal of achieving Mach 1-plus cruise speeds without generating a sonic boom on the ground.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Safran powers Bye; Aurora flow-controlled CRANE; Stratospheric turbulence test; UAM acceptance survey; AI in design; Supersonic nacelles
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is to use artificial intelligence in the design of an air taxi under a four-year, $7.2 million DARPA contract.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX becomes first company to win U.S. government certification of human spaceflight system.
Space

As cybersecurity issues become even more important to the aviation industry, South Africa’s Safomar Aviation has signed a deal with Canada’s CX Technologies to sell onboard cybersecurity solutions into the rapidly growing Sub-Sahara Africa market.
Emerging Technologies

By Alan Dron
With air traffic flights and passengers drastically down in 2020, the 2019 top issues of aircraft emissions and “flight shame” have all but disappeared. But they will reappear just as soon as traffic recovers.
Air Transport Month

By Graham Warwick
Collins Aerospace is to work with Boom Supersonic to develop the inlet, nacelle and exhaust system for the startup’s planned Mach 2.2 airliner, the Overture.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The Space Development Agency faces new obstacles to deploying new satellite constellations on time.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

Dale Tutt
Urban air mobility is a case study in the benefits of digital design.
Advanced Air Mobility