Aerospace

Canadian drone collision; Boeing autonomy investment; drones over crowds; regional biofuels; unmanned medevac

Siemens President/CEO Tony Hemmelgarn weighs in on smart airplanes, 3D printing, cybersecurity and the gaps in IoT.

NASA’s low-boom flight demonstrator will be the agency’s first manned supersonic X-plane since 1990.

Nothing extraordinary is expected heading into 2018, but the status of the business jet industry looks a lot better than it has for most of the last decade.

If retailers and customers need new skills to use drone delivery, the idea could have difficulty taking off, so Alphabet’s Project Wing is working with real-world users of its planned service.

The core is the common element of the company’s plan to make a step change in efficiency with two engine families, the Advance and the UltraFan, for the 2020s.

After a hiatus of more than 50 years, NASA plans a trial run of a full-scale nuclear-fission power system designed to produce 1 kW of electricity.

Small unmanned aircraft set new standards for flight endurance as developers push the limits of aerodynamics and propulsion.

Sonic booms should not pose a barrier to speeding progress in aviation technology.

Scaled flies Model 401; Yamaha goes multicopter; Flirtey flies defibrillators; Spike tests supersonic design; DARPA taps Aerojet for TBCC; Dubai’s firefighting UAV.

MBDA’s missile programs are benefiting from a joint research initiative that involves participants from industry and academe.

Performance-based navigation and runway improvements are crucial to airline night operations at a New Zealand airport surrounded by mountains.

In being acquired by Boeing, Aurora Flight Sciences sees a path to turn its research into products, which had eluded the innovative but small company.

GM unveils an autonomous, fuel-cell-powered vehicle platform as it works with aerospace industry to evaluate technology for quiet, clean power generation.

The Ground-Based Interceptor is the central flight component of the Boeing Ground-based Midcourse Defense system and is topped by the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle.

Decades of progress toward free trade in jetliners could be undone in a few years. And Boeing could end up losing a lot in the end.

“The next few months may be rather stressful for most deal-makers in the A&D sector,” say some who should know.

Aurora acquisition gives Boeing pole position in initial subsonic X-plane risk-reduction contracts.

Concerns over the speed at which sustainable aviation fuels can be certified and supplies sufficiently produced leave question marks.

Airbus tests urban eVTOL propulsion, Israel’s IAI demos unmanned helicopter, Cambridge Consultants develops drone that navigates by GPS to user’s smartphone location, NASA tests inflight wing-folding, BAE floats fixed-/rotary-wing adaptive UAV, and NTSB investigates New York drone-helicopter collision

For the first time, the Navy has linked a specific component failure to a surge of cockpit events.

High-bandwidth connectivity inside aircraft and between aircraft and the ground is driving the need to add sensing to systems and share the data.

How high-definition imagery could pave the way to fully automated helicopter landings.

Flight tests are underway on Airbus Helicopters’ H145 light twin-engine, specifically to test its five-blade main rotor.

A specialist in unmanned aircraft and autonomous systems, Aurora Flight Sciences has one of the most diverse and innovative portfolios of research programs in aerospace.