Emerging Technologies

The BWB offers a number of advantages for both commercial and military applications.

Etihad Airways has been named Environmental Airline of the Year 2023 in the Airline Ratings awards.

Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines' strong financial performance in 2022 has resulted in an upgrade in its credit rating.

Qatar Airways signs deal with Shell for SAF supply Schiphol Airport.

Low-speed, multiblade rim-driven rotor aims to overcome limitations of conventional rotors.

NASA’s eVTOL crash test lessons; DLR’s impact test site; Formula One informs batteries; Eve tests UAM prototypes.

Airline private equity group Indigo Partners has invested $50 million in U.S. sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) startup CleanJoule.

Daniel Iracane, a member of France’s Technology Academy, calls the product e-bio-SAF, where “e” stands for the electric power needed to produce hydrogen.

Google Cloud and Qatar Airways will explore leveraging Google Cloud’s data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.

Indian carrier IndiGo has appointed Juspay as its official payment partner.

Africa’s immense potential to become a global powerhouse is undeniable. It has all of the ingredients including a market of 1.2 billion consumers (rising to 1.7bn by 2030) and a combined GDP worth US$2.5 trillion. So what is holding it back? - Jeremy Springall, senior vice-president, SITA at Borders, gives his analysis.

Targeted growth, strategic mergers and retaining talent can help companies rebound from the unavoidable difficulties of recent years.

The cislunar transporter would make propellant runs from LEO to lunar orbit.

The proving ground will use open-architecture testbeds to enable industry to flight-test autonomy technologies.

The U.S. Air Force’s AFWerx High-Speed VTOL Concept Challenger produces mixed results.

Kenya Airways has become the first African airline to fly possibly the most sustainable commercial long-haul flight from Africa to Europe.

Five years after Jeff Bezos began wooing NASA to buy Blue Origin lunar landing services, the U.S. space agency said “yes.”

Electric aircraft fire; Tiltrotor eVTOL prototypes; Autonomous deck landing; Weather-forecasting drone.

Amideast/UAE, Boeing and the U.S. Mission to the UAE have marked the graduation of 48 students who have completed the STEM Ambassadors programme in the UAE.

The Malaysian helicopter operator also inked a deal with Leonardo for five more AW139 twin-engine helicopters at the LIMA Exhibition in Langkawi.

The funding will support a feasibility study for a hydrogen production and distribution hub at the Scottish airport.

The proposed biorefinery at south Malaysia’s Pengerang Integrated Complex would produce HEFA/HVO, SAF and bionaphtha at a capacity of 12,500 barrels daily.

High-speed airliner developer Boom Supersonic agreed to a sustainable aviation fuel deal with power-to-liquid producer Dimensional Energy for Overture testing.

Honeywell has developed Honeywell’s Cabin Sentinel, that can be included in Dassault Aviation’s FalconConnect line for new and existing Dassault aircraft.

To succeed, innovators must cultivate confidence among regulators, the flying public and investors.