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Feb 16, 2015
Data from a recent test flight of the IXV, ESA’s experimental spaceplane, is expected to guide development of reusable space vehicles.
Feb 16, 2015
How lower-cost unmanned vehicles can help high-end manned platforms survive in hostile airspace is a focus of new programs in the Pentagon research agency’s budget request.
Feb 12, 2015
An official Chinese report outlines the efforts that Avic’s factories and research institutes are putting into advanced manufacturing technology, from friction-stir welding to resin-transfer infusion.
Feb 12, 2015
Bombardier’s cancellation of the Lear 85 is symptomatic of two much larger issues that the company must confront in the near future.
Feb 11, 2015
With FAA approval to use unmanned aircraft for aerial photography and a deal with Planet Labs to buy satellite imagery, Woolpert plans to bring the two together to enable new geospatial information services.
Feb 09, 2015
Studies suggest that with air transportation demand set to double by 2030, nearly a million new pilots, maintenance technicians, air traffic controllers and cabin crew will be needed to keep the industry moving forward.
Feb 09, 2015
Unmanned aircraft guides firefighting robot; carrier landings made easier; a simpler approach to thrust vectoring; unmanned helicopter competes on cost with cargo trucks; Europe steps up work on reusable spaceflight.
Feb 09, 2015
Low-cost X-planes, electric propulsion and autonomous vehicles to get a boost under NASA’s aeronautics research plans for 2015 and 2016.