Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Hinetics’ power-dense superconducting motor eliminates the need for cryogenic fluids.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
U.S. SAF production approximately doubled from December 2024 to February 2025 with slower growth forecast into 2026.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
NASEM's report lays out a set of research priorities for NASA to help achieve its goal of reducing aviation-induced cloudiness and persistent contrails.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Clean Aviation executives are striving to firm up plans, even though they have slipped to the right, for both hybrid-electric and hydrogen propulsion.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
United has invested in Twelve, which is building a plant to produce power-to-liquid sustainable aviation fuel from renewable electricity, captured CO2 and water
Airlines & Lessors

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris, Steve Trimble
Will JetZero's blended-wing body passenger jet become a reality? Our editors weigh in.
Check 6

By Steve Trimble
A newly released road map calls for Collaborative Combat Aircraft orders to begin this year, with new increments rolling out in roughly five-year intervals.
Aircraft & Propulsion

South African Airways (SAA) said it has been impacted by a significant cyber incident that began on Saturday, 3 May 2025.
Emerging Technologies

Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects has awarded a formal contract to Smiths Detection to deploy advanced checkpoint screening technologies across all terminals at Dubai International Airport (DXB).
Emerging Technologies

Tata Consultancy Services has partnered with Jazeera Airways to drive the next phase of its digital transformation.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
AeroVironment has unveiled the Red Dragon, a second-generation loitering munition with a more than 400 km (249 mi.) one-way range.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Aviation Week Network Staff
Russian aeronautical research institute TsAGI has flight tested a windowless cockpit demonstrator.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Northrop Grumman says an advanced inertial navigation device that could pave the way for precise hypersonic flight guidance in GPS-denied environments has flown successfully on Stratolaunch’s recently confirmed Talon-A Mach 5-plus test flights.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Superconducting motor runs; Electrifying two-seater; Hybrid hydrogen eVTOL; Hydrogen-powered turnaround.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
It will enable the startup’s WM2500 2-megawatt-class electric propulsion system to be tested driving the fan module from a Honeywell LF507-1F geared turbofan.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
JetZero is targeting a critical design review (CDR) of its full-scale multi-role demonstrator late in May.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
The DOT is one of only four cabinet-level agencies that would see a top-line funding increase in the Trump administration’s proposed fiscal 2026 budget.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
The Green Fuel Forward initiative aims to educate and increase corporate awareness and adoption of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) credits.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick, Adrian Schofield, Helen Massy-Beresford
Many production projects are underway across the globe, but political upheaval risks affecting investment decisions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Joby achieved a major feat in its eVTOL development program late last month when its S4 air taxi made the first piloted transition between vertical hover and forward cruise.
Aircraft & Propulsion

ASECNA and Indra have completed a project aimed at enhancing landing safety across 17 airports in Africa.
Airports & Networks

By Chen Chuanren
Thailand’s Bangchak Group has opened the kingdom’s first dedicated SAF facility as production capacity continues to ramp up in Asia-Pacific.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Graham Warwick
A team led by the UK’s Exeter Airport says it has accomplished the first “zero-carbon turn” of a commercial aircraft.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Korean Air plans to build an UAM and aviation safety R&D center with the aim of creating a hub for future mobility and aerospace innovation in South Korea.
Airlines & Lessors