Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
May 25, 2016
Dublin-based regional CityJet has taken delivery of its first 98-seat Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft, becoming the first European SSJ100 customer.
May 25, 2016
Travel technology provider SITA is exploring the use of blockchain technology as a platform for generating secure single travel “tokens” that could potentially streamline a passenger’s progress through all airport processes involving the scanning of personal documentation.
May 24, 2016
Will airliners always look the way they do today? NASA thinks not, and the US research agency has bold plans to return to the heydays of X-planes.
May 24, 2016
The next wave of airline IT changes may include new jargon: Speech recognition to turn voice into text, natural language processing and artificial intelligence.
Sep 14, 2020
Ampaire has flown a second prototype of its Electric EEL, a Cessna 337 Skymaster modified to hybrid-electric propulsion.
Sep 14, 2020
Ask the Editors: The problem with electric taxi motors is the ratio of benefit to cost in commercial operations.
Sep 12, 2020
Greece is set to become the first European export customer for the Dassault Rafale, announcing plans to order 18 aircraft as part of a modernization of its armed forces.
Sep 11, 2020
Boeing confirmed that it uncovered a manufacturing problem with 787 vertical fins—the fourth production-quality issue linked to the widebody twinjet program in recent weeks.
Sep 11, 2020
As Airbus and the suppliers for its commercial aviation business have to cope with drastic reductions in production rates, jobs are under threat.
Sep 11, 2020
Vancouver Airport Authority, scaling back ambitious growth plans in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, has canceled a four-part infrastructure improvement project that targeted Vancouver International Airport’s (YVR) energy usage.
Sep 11, 2020
Russia’s Red Wings airline has reintroduced Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) regional aircraft to its fleet.
Sep 11, 2020
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.