Aerospace

Aviation Week flies Sikorsky’s autonomous S-76 testbed as the company reveals its interest in the urban air mobility market.

New five-blade rotor comes from Airbus’ Bluecopter technology demonstrator.

Engineers have adopted a simple approach to the CityAirbus electric propulsion architecture.

The current situation is combustible enough for defense analysts and planners to ponder how Venezuela might affect the 2019-21 outlook for the sector.

Startup Sabrewing secures seed funding and launch order as it begins building full-scale unmanned cargo aircraft.

Boeing Airpower Teaming System is a fighter-like unmanned aircraft specifically designed to be exportable globally.

Record-breaking aeronaut Brian Jones is heading a British commercial HAPS startup with backing from Ordnance Survey.

AeroVironment’s secretive, high-altitude pseudo-satellite aircraft is supposed to be a pillar of its growth. Slowly but surely, investors are learning how.

Rolls’ composite fan and case evaluation marks the next step toward full-scale UltraFan flight-test demonstration.

CityAirbus arriving; Siemens-powered regional; tackling icing dangers; a better Hero; electrifying rotorcraft.

Superbly engineered but environmentally and economically flawed, Concorde is a key source of lessons learned for today’s supersonic aircraft developers as the design icon marks its golden anniversary.

Too fast and too slow: lessons learned from two failed and very different supersonic transport ventures.

Fixed engines, V-tails and distributed flight control systems will feature in Leonardo’s tiltrotor tech demonstrator.

Certification program steps up as Bell 525s go north for cold-weather testing.

The proposal’s co-sponsor may be ill-informed on aviation’s benefits and accomplishments, but the industry needs to read the tea leaves and move fast.

Aerion sees low noise and emissions as key to the return of supersonic air transport.

The A380 is the symbol of Europe’s ambition to become an equal competitor to Boeing. While Airbus reached its target anyway, the program failed.

NASA’s Low-Boom Research Demonstrator is not a prototype, but it may pave the way for a new civil supersonic generation.

Ordnance Survey’s mapping HAPS; French airship advances; UAV launch on the move; Siemens powers Sun Flyer; Offshore wind-energy kites.

Over the next five years, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are expected to increase commercial aircraft production by 21%.

Elroy Air aims to extend the reach of express logistics by developing an unmanned cargo aircraft to connect smaller, more remote communities.

Sikorsky’s helicopter charter subsidiary will operate S-76s for on-demand service Blade in return for data on urban air mobility.

Electric air race, reducing contrails, UK BVLOS UAV corridor, balloon-dropped UAV and the DLR’s integrated deicing.

The likelihood of using air taxis varies significantly among the four locations in which people were surveyed.

Decision nears on Uber Elevate’s international demonstration city as the FAA proves adaptable to novel UAM airspace management.