Ride-hailing giant Uber planes to launch in-demand electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air-taxi service in Dallas and Dubai in 2020, and has selected partners for development of the technology and infrastructure.
Automation has helped GE Aviation’s compressor-blade manufacturing plant in Quebec to grow from producing parts for five CFM engines a year to five a day.
Testing on Boeing 787-10, the longest and final stretch derivative of is twinjet family, is a bit ahead of schedule, as the program enters the first phase of stability-and-control evaluation.
Rapid advances in electric propulsion—driven by the automotive industry—are fueling visions of aircraft taking over from cars for the daily commute and short-haul trips.
Following evaluation of Lockheed Martin’s Quiet Supersonic Transport, wind-tunnel tests shift to testing the X-plane’s shockwave-shielding top-mounted inlet.
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Launched in Sao Paulo, the Voom on-demand helicopter booking service has emerged from A³, Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost charged with incubating and demonstrating disruptive ideas
Saudi efforts to drive out shale producers by boosting production lead to new techniques that keep prices down. But cheap fuel may hurt fleet renewals.
Making jigs and fixtures using additive manufacturing provides dramatic cost savings compared to conventional machining. But the savings involve more than how the tools are made.
Skunk Works conducts flight tests to show how autonomous technology can enable unmanned aircraft to make manned fighters more effective in hostile environments.
Although Rolls-Royce continues to dominate the high-thrust engine market for large-cabin, long-range business jets, the company’s position is under attack.
China’s first international hypersonics conference, held in Xiamen, amounted to a coming-out party for the nation’s swift progress in high speed flight research.
Hauling helium by airship, making the Airlander safer, Swiss drone delivers samples, E-volo unveils air taxi, Airbus going Voom in Brazil, NASA flies Prandtl wing.
