Bell will supply the vehicle’s feathering system and flight control surfaces while Texas-based structures specialist Qarbon Aerospace will produce the fuselage and wing.
VoltAero has secured Italian aerospace components and structures producer TESI as a strategic investor and industrial partner as part of a €32 million ($31.6 million) Series B fundraising round.
Pete Bunce, General Aviation Manufacturers Association president and CEO, outlined the multiple challenges and threats that business aircraft manufacturers are facing at the Corporate Jet Investor conference.
Building on lessons from the PW1100G, Pratt & Whitney’s expanded Advantage test and pre-production readiness program is targeting a smoother entry into service.
UPS Flight Forward, the package carrier’s uncrewed aircraft division, is looking ahead to a vertical takeoff and landing demonstration flight direct to a UPS center using Beta Technologies’ Alia-250.
A triple-core Falcon Heavy, currently the most powerful rocket operating today, lifted off from a fog-shrouded Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 1 on a challenging and classified mission for the U.S. Space Force.