Aerospace Emerging Technologies

Feb 28, 2022
Newer and more stringent net-zero carbon targets are being coupled with actions that will significantly change what it means to be a sustainable airline.
Feb 28, 2022
ARPA-E funds electric; DLR opens Winglab; River rescue drone; Northrop’s Digital Shadow; Heavylift cargo UAV; Astroscale restarts demo.
Feb 25, 2022
Airbus and CFM will use A380 testbed to answer crucial questions about hydrogen propulsion.
Feb 21, 2022
Morphing drone; Hyperlocal weather; Inflight damage monitoring; Hydrogen hubs; and Sustainable fuel from plastic waste.
Feb 18, 2022
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Jul 20, 2021
A Los Angeles-based commuter airline plans to purchase up to 150 Cessna Grand Caravan EX turboprops from Textron Aviation with plans to convert them into hybrid-electric aircraft for commercial air travel.
Jul 16, 2021
Airobotics’ drone boxes will support law enforcement for the six-month-long Expo 2020 Dubai.
Jul 16, 2021
The new generation of commercial aircraft will need to be largely carbon-free in the coming decades. Anuradha Deenapanray Chappard looks at how the industry’s big players are working to meet these targets.
Jul 15, 2021
The Canadian federal and Quebec provincial governments together will invest in projects at Bell, CAE and Pratt & Whitney Canada to develop technologies supporting the electrification and decarbonization of aviation.
Jul 15, 2021
Qatar Airways Cargo has rolled out third-party eBooking platform WebCargo by Freightos across the United States of America, effective 19 July 2021.
Jul 14, 2021
Boeing is backing the production of sustainable aviation fuel in the U.S. under a partnership with supply chain developer SkyNRG.
Jul 14, 2021
Aimed at enabling single-aisle airliners to burn carbon-free hydrogen in turbine engines, GKN Aerospace is leading a two-year Swedish-funded research project.
Jul 14, 2021
Universal Hydrogen will retrofit ATR 72 and de Havilland Canada Dash 8 regional turboprops operated by Icelandair, Air Nostrum and Ravn Alaska with hydrogen fuel-cell power trains.