Emerging Technologies

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Nova Pangaea completes endurance trials for ethanol production, advancing sustainable aviation fuel technology to meet growing industry demand.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
Taiwanese officials are watching the U.S.-Israel-Iran War closely.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By William Moore
WestJet has just completed retrofits on “densified” aircraft to reverse previously increased seating capacity; Carbon Analysis considers this effect and assesses WestJet’s overall efficiency.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Ben Goldstein
Eve Air Mobility advances eVTOL transition tests, targets 2028 certification and reports progress on design freeze, supplier reviews and flight milestones.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Australian startup Astro Aero has taken the wraps off its planned A200C SkyEXpress single-turboprop freighter, with the prototype now under construction in Hervey Bay, Queensland.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Beta certification progress; Elroy matures cargo eVTOL; Ampaire’s hybrid-electric APU; and AIR picks SunTrax as base.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
Archer sees defense, autonomy and AI as building blocks of a broader aerospace business that can support its longer-term air taxi ambitions.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Sean Broderick
FAA orders V2500 operators to replace HPC blades with new or reworked parts to address durability issues and prevent in-service incidents.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
FAA proposes lifting supersonic flight ban with a sonic boom limit, sparking industry debate over metrics, operational viability and compliance rules.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
High-supersonic propulsion, machine-learning avionics, air taxi noise and uncertainty in design are the research topics funded under the latest round of NASA’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI).
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
A NASA-funded project has demonstrated an electric powertrain combining cryogenically-cooled power distribution with a superconducting electric motor to increase efficiency and power density.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Swiss aviation technology company Metafuels has opened its methanol-to-jet demonstration plant at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Researchers call for renewed efforts to understand how climate change impacts aviation icing hazards and predict severity under future climate scenarios.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
EU policy changes create uncertainty for eSAF investors, reducing airline incentives and delaying progress on sustainable aviation fuel projects.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
The competition narrowly misses the target of quadrupling drone payload-to-weight ratio.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
Frank Kendall, U.S. Air Force secretary during the Biden administration, is not the first person you would expect to go all-in on autonomous weapons.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
JetZero, nTop and Nvidia bring artificial intelligence to the early stages of aircraft design.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Ampaire secures $19 million Series B funding to advance hybrid-electric propulsion, targeting certification and fuel-saving solutions for commercial aviation.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
The UK government and industry partners, including Google, have launched a large-scale contrail-avoidance trial on flights across the North Atlantic, one of the world’s contrail hot spots.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
The regional airliner demonstrator is the heaviest electric aircraft yet to fly.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. startup reaches a milestone in the software certification process.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
New contenders are emerging to vie for the outsize cargo market as the current fleet continues to age and shrink.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By William Moore
The Carbon Analysis assesses the effect that Azul’s expanding E2 fleet has had on emissions, as well as analyzing the airline's wider fleet strategy over the past four years.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Guy Norris
Boeing has patented a new overwing strut concept that would allow either a ducted or unducted engine to be attached to a common wing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Heart Aerospace completes first flight of X1, a full-scale electric demonstrator, validating key technologies for its hybrid-electric ES-30.
Emerging Technologies