Emerging Technologies

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

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

By Tony Osborne
Italian and Swedish industry will begin joining discussions on Tempest later this year.
A&D Week 2020

By Graham Warwick
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.
Emerging Technologies

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

By Guy Norris
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.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Propulsion testbed prepared for flight in UK as work begins on first application.
Emerging Technologies

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

By Graham Warwick
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.
Emerging Technologies

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

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.
Emerging Technologies

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

By Graham Warwick
DARPA preparing to award contracts to design an X-plane concept around active flow control.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
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.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
A system developed by German aerospace center DLR to help pilots fly more energy-efficient, lower-noise approaches is to be prepared for production by Swiss International Air Lines and Thales Avionics in a joint program.
Emerging Technologies

By Bill Carey
Collins Aerospace describes initiatives to safeguard aviation’s VHF-routed data link communications.
Connected Aerospace

By Michael Bruno
Ask the Editors: Industry consolidation and growing automation and digitization will exacerbate pandemic-related layoffs.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
U.S.-Spanish startup Skydweller Aero is opening offices in Oklahoma as the company pushes its solar-powered medium-altitude pseudo satellite for potential U.S. government requirements.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Frost & Sullivan says airlines need to maintain focus on technologies including AI, machine learning and blockchain.
Airlines & Lessors

By Bill Carey
The slackening of air traffic worldwide during the coronavirus pandemic offers time to take stock of what Collins Aerospace calls the Datalink Dilemma—the increasing volume of aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS) data sent over VHF frequencies.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Rolls progresses electric propulsion; ZeroAvia flies electric in UK; Terrafugia unveils eVTOL; and Electra.aero builds team.
Emerging Technologies

By Joe Anselmo, Jen DiMascio
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
Fuel cells may be more suited to smaller commercial aircraft, while larger ones would retain turbine engines.
Aircraft & Propulsion

BIRD Aerosystems has completed the delivery of its AMPS system, including the AeroShield POD and MACS sensor, to a VIP customer in Africa.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Development, assembly and test of XB-1 proving to be more than sum of its parts for Boom as a step toward follow-on supersonic transport.
Aircraft & Propulsion