United Kingdom (UK)

By Alan Dron
The UK government has said most UK airports will be unable to meet its June 2024 deadline to install new-generation security scanners.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
A key element of a novel electric propulsion demonstrator has been completed and is set to begin bench testing under a UK government-supported research program.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Leading British aerospace research center Cranfield University is set to establish the UK’s first airport-based, large-scale hydrogen research hub.
Sustainability

By Graham Warwick
The UK has released the first road map for development of technologies to tackle non-CO2 emissions from aviation.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The British Army Air Corps has marked the impending retirement of its locally assembled Apache attack helicopters with a flypast around the UK.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
British intelligence officials are suggesting Moscow could be facing fleet availability issues.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A UK-based startup has begun flight tests of a co-axial, rotary-wing UAS that it hopes to bring to the military market in the next two years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
Integrating the first UAM aircraft into today’s urban airspace environments is going to be a huge challenge, a UK panel says.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Spanish companies will use a microsatellite built by Kongsberg NanoAvionics to test their planned space-based air traffic management (ATM) system.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Matthew Fulco
While the U.S. remains the world’s paramount military power, its defense industrial base has significant shortcomings compared to China’s.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Ben Goldstein
UK startup Vertical Aerospace said it expects its second full-scale VX4 eVTOL vehicle prototype to be completed in “the coming weeks.”
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The UK defense ministry has finalized a deal with Boeing to buy 14 MH-47G Chinook helicopters after having deferred the purchase for three years.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The committee found that the defense ministry had been putting off making major program decisions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Skyports Infrastructure is to develop the UK’s first vertiport testbed at Bicester Motion, a former Royal Air Force airfield in Oxfordshire.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
SAF production occupies an unhelpful position in the investment cycle.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Ben Goldstein
Sora Aviation plans to develop a 30-passenger large tiltrotor eVTOL called the S-1.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Norwegian oil companies have halted all flights to offshore platforms following a fatal accident involving a Bristow-operated Sikorsky S-92 on Feb. 28.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Angus Batey
For the aviation sector to meet its 2050 emissions reduction targets, a rapid increase in the use of sustainable aviation fuel is vital.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK defense ministry has opened negotiations to find a new fleet of medium helicopters for the country’s armed services.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Even though the current Hawk T2 fleet is not due for retirement until 2040, groundwork planning needs to begin now for a program to replace the Hawk.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Tony Osborne
British defense ministers have outlined plans to accelerate the provision of uncrewed systems across all four branches of the UK’s armed services.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Major programs have buoyed BAE Systems to a record order backlog of more than £69 billion ($87.1 billion), the company has reported.
Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Startup Vertical Aerospace has won an £8 million ($10 million) grant from the UK government to develop next-generation propellers for its VX4 eVTOL air taxi .
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Lockheed Martin and Rhea have been awarded contracts to develop software to control the UK’s future constellation of ISR satellites.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus engineers say they are just weeks away from making the first flight of the company’s Rapid and Cost-Effective Rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion