Emerging Technologies

The commercial aviation industry’s rebound from COVID-19 is underway, with the number of airline flights starting to gradually increase, but widespread recovery could take several years.

President Matthew Bromberg on COVID-19, production increases and future development efforts.

Guillaume Faury is optimistic about a market recovery, but pace and timing are among many aspects impossible to predict.

Ask the Editors: Hydrogen propulsion offers a significant opportunity to reduce carbon emissions, but major challenges lie ahead.

German air taxi startup Lilium is in “detailed discussions” with major suppliers as it prepares the next stage in development and service-entry of its Lilium Jet after concluding an agreement with Toray Industries to deliver composites for the aircraft’s structure.

Aerion’s carbon-neutral fuel; Calspan tests trust in AI; Dubai advances Sky Dome; DLR backs clean aviation; Lilium’s modular vertiports.

The FAA and Switzerland’s Federal Office of Civil Aviation sign an accord to advance drone integration standards.

Etihad Airways has joined the £65 million Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre (DARTeC) consortium, due to open next year at Cranfield University in the UK.

Thales has launched Ready to Fly which the company has described as ‘a portfolio of solutions for a safer and healthier travel journey.'

A research programme has seen Etihad Airways, Boeing, NASA and Safran banding together to reduce noise emissions from future generations of airliners. Alan Dron has been finding out more.

This webinar took place July 10, 2020. COVID-19 could prove to be the making or the breaking of the electrification of electric propulsion. Will the

Etihad Airways is the UAE’s first airline to implement electronic technical logs (eTech logs) for airline operations.

Manned-unmanned teaming and combat cloud technologies are key disruptors in Europe’s Future Combat Air System.

Italian and Swedish industry will begin joining discussions on Tempest later this year.

Renewable hydrogen will play a key role in supporting the EU’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2050 by reducing emissions from hard-to-decarbonize sectors such as aviation, according to the European Commission’s Hydrogen Strategy unveiled on July 8.

Alpha Aviation Academy UAE has launched Alpha Aviation Store, an online store dedicated to aviation apparel, gifts, supplies, accessories, appliances and aircraft models.

Aerion Supersonic is partnering with Canada-based clean energy company Carbon Engineering (CE) to evaluate the potential use of a sustainable synthetic jet fuel produced from carbon dioxide (CO2) for the AS2 supersonic business jet.

Propulsion testbed prepared for flight in UK as work begins on first application.

UAE and China are looking for Mars debuts, joining eight spacecraft currently operating at the Red Planet.

With plans to operate as well as produce its electric air taxis, German startup Lilium has unveiled its thinking on modular vertiports that could start small, but scale up quickly as the market takes off.

German aerospace center DLR is founding four new research institutes focused on synthetic fuels, low-emission propulsion and electric aviation.

Thales has unveiled its new PureFlyt flight management system (FMS), which will be available from 2024 and promises enhanced safety and efficiency in the cockpit. Steve Nichols reports.

Skylegs, a flight operations specialist, has unveiled a first batch of operational features to help operators combat COVID-19.

DARPA preparing to award contracts to design an X-plane concept around active flow control.

FAA’s ConOps for UAM; NASA seeks AAM partners; Europe’s clean R&D plan; Wisk eyes U.S. UAM launch; FAA certifying 12 drones.