Hybrid Air Vehicles

By Ben Goldstein
A half century later, the channel wing aircraft concept has been revived by Maryland-based startup HopFlyt.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
When Dronamics was founded 11 years ago, the Bulgarian startup took a contrarian view to the emerging commercial drone market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Hybrid Air Vehicles, developer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, says it has secured reservations for three aircraft for military use.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
U.S. electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies has priced its planned initial public offering at $27-33 per share, for gross proceeds of $675-825 million.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
U.S. startup Tidal Flight has been awarded an Air Force AFWERX contract to further develop its hybrid-electric Polaris seaplane.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Fresh off its selection of Swiss startup H55 as its battery provider, Swiss company Smartflyer is planning a first flight of its four-seat hybrid trainer next year.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Swiss startup Smartflyer has selected fellow Swiss company H55 as the battery provider for its SF-1 four-seat hybrid-electric aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Aura Aero, the startup developing the 19-seat, hybrid-electric ERA regional aircraft, is making progress thanks to partial tests at its Toulouse facility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
GE Aerospace has joined forces with startup Beta Technologies to develop a turbogenerator for hybrid-electric advanced air mobility applications.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The long-running dispute between failed electric aircraft startup Zunum Aero and Boeing has taken a new twist.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A developer of electric powertrains is championing an aircraft architecture that could reduce fuel burn on very-short-haul regional and private flights by 90%.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Elroy Air has transitioned its hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing Chaparral between vertical and horizontal flight.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Archer has announced a pair of strategic acquisitions that it says will accelerate efforts to field a hybrid VTOL aircraft for the U.S. military.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Startup VerdeGo Aero is to build the first prototype of its VH-4T-415 turbine-based hybrid-electric powerplant.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
French startup Ascendance has announced a partnership with EXOES for the production of the batteries for its hybrid electric Sterna powerplant modules.
Advanced Air Mobility

Zaynab Zlitni
Stuart Simpson is CEO of Vertical Aerospace. He recently sat down with Aviation Week to discuss the company’s planned hybrid aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
With would-be operator Straightline Aviation placing a $50 million firm order for the first hybrid cargo airship, to be produced by AT² Aerospace based on a Lockheed Martin Skunk Works design, are we about to enter a new age of airships?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The first Z1 hybrid airship is to be delivered to Straightline in 2028 for initial cargo and humanitarian deployments to Brazil, Alaska and northern Canada.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Florida-based VerdeGo Aero is aiming to certify a suite of hybrid-electric integrated propulsion systems under the FAA’s Part 33 rules for aeroengines.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Founded in 2017, Daytona Beach, Florida-based VerdeGo is already working to certify the 185-kW VH-3.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Retaining Moya's same tiltbody electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) airframe, the hybrid version increases range capability to 185 mi. while maintaining the 440-lb. payload capability.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
When it comes to speed and payload, there is a large gap in the transport network between the capacities of fixed-wing aircraft and ships, trucks and trains.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The founder and CEO of Canadian hybrid-electric eVTOL startup Horizon Aircraft said he expects to make the first transition with a half-scale demo by midsummer.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Developers of turbo- and diesel-electric generators offer flexibility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
XTI Aerospace hopes its new life as a publicly traded company will unlock the resources required to develop the TriFan 600 VTOL business aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility