Aerospace Aircraft & Propulsion
Sep 02, 2020
Hill Helicopters wants to help relaunch the British rotorcraft industry with a fresh design.
Sep 01, 2020
ARPA-E funds electric aircraft; ERAU tests hybrid propulsion; Ambular air ambulance; Longer-range EHang; and SkyDrive flies manned eVTOL.
Aug 27, 2020
Futurists talk of electric aircraft, hybrid power systems and hydrogen as a fuel source, but there are decades of life yet in jet propulsion.
Aug 27, 2020
Returning to “normal” production is the wrong target for aircraft OEMs.
Aug 26, 2020
Engine-makers adjust to changing post-pandemic priorities and consider accelerating efforts on advanced and disruptive technologies.
Apr 28, 2020
For all those who believe that things come in threes, there now is the third failed mergers and acquisition (M&A) deal attributable to COVID-19 in April alone.
Apr 28, 2020
Startup Skyryse is flight testing the software for the first application of its FlightOS automation system as it progresses toward certification of the aircraft-agnostic fly-by-wire (FBW) architecture on its first platform.
Apr 27, 2020
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury gave a dramatic warning to employees that heralds potentially deeper production cuts than initially planned.
Apr 27, 2020
MOSCOW—Irkut Corporation has resumed the flight trials of its new MC-21 narrowbody aircraft in Zhukovsky, near Moscow. The flights were suspended on…
Apr 25, 2020
Embraer and Boeing are entering into a bitter public fight over who is responsible for the end of the proposed commercial aircraft joint venture, Boeing Brasil Commercial.
Apr 24, 2020
The police department of Westport, Connecticut, has decided that it will not test a “pandemic drone” designed to sense symptoms of COVID-19 after the…
Apr 23, 2020
Boeing has tapped Mark Jenks to lead a new Airplane Programs organization that the company expects to ensure both consistency and efficiency throughout its core commercial aircraft production efforts—one of several changes announced by the company’s leadership aimed at aligning similar businesses.
Apr 23, 2020
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has said it will suspend its production for the Boeing 787 program for up to 10 days in May.