Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Low-speed, multiblade rim-driven rotor aims to overcome limitations of conventional rotors.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
NASA’s eVTOL crash test lessons; DLR’s impact test site; Formula One informs batteries; Eve tests UAM prototypes.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Airline private equity group Indigo Partners has invested $50 million in U.S. sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) startup CleanJoule.
Airlines & Lessors

By Thierry Dubois
Daniel Iracane, a member of France’s Technology Academy, calls the product e-bio-SAF, where “e” stands for the electric power needed to produce hydrogen.
Emerging Technologies

Frank Coleman and John Moore
Targeted growth, strategic mergers and retaining talent can help companies rebound from the unavoidable difficulties of recent years.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Irene Klotz
The cislunar transporter would make propellant runs from LEO to lunar orbit.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Air Force’s AFWerx High-Speed VTOL Concept Challenger produces mixed results.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The proving ground will use open-architecture testbeds to enable industry to flight-test autonomy technologies.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Five years after Jeff Bezos began wooing NASA to buy Blue Origin lunar landing services, the U.S. space agency said “yes.”
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Electric aircraft fire; Tiltrotor eVTOL prototypes; Autonomous deck landing; Weather-forecasting drone.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
The Malaysian helicopter operator also inked a deal with Leonardo for five more AW139 twin-engine helicopters at the LIMA Exhibition in Langkawi.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By David Casey
The funding will support a feasibility study for a hydrogen production and distribution hub at the Scottish airport.
Airports & Networks

By Chen Chuanren
The proposed biorefinery at south Malaysia’s Pengerang Integrated Complex would produce HEFA/HVO, SAF and bionaphtha at a capacity of 12,500 barrels daily.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
High-speed airliner developer Boom Supersonic agreed to a sustainable aviation fuel deal with power-to-liquid producer Dimensional Energy for Overture testing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Earl Lawrence
To succeed, innovators must cultivate confidence among regulators, the flying public and investors.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Norris
Technology being hatched under Europe’s newly launched Clean Aviation aeronautics research program could help decarbonize business aviation.
EBACE

By Guy Norris
Daher says it will narrow down design options for either a lightly hybridized or all-electric production follow-on to the EcoPulse demonstrator.
EBACE

By Garrett Reim
Kawasaki Motors has made a strategic investment of an undisclosed amount in VoltAero, a hybrid-electric aircraft developer.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Clean Sky 2’s Distributed Electric Propulsion Scaled Flight Demonstrator is a write-off after a fire during tests at the Netherlands aerospace research center.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Norris
After surpassing target thrust levels on its first test run, Rolls says the first Pearl 10X is now ready to go on its Boeing 747-200 flying testbed.
EBACE

By Guy Norris
Engine-makers are accelerating tests of business aircraft engines with 100% sustainable aviation fuel.
EBACE

By Guy Norris
Bombardier has been flight testing sub-scale versions of its blended wing body configuration dubbed the EcoJet.
EBACE

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
The engine-maker is pinning its hopes on the geared UltraFan as a low-fuel-burn contender for single- and twin-aisle airliners and reengining opportunities.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
GE Aerospace is investing $20 million to expand its EPISCenter facility at the University of Dayton as demand for electric and hybrid propulsion research grows.
Emerging Technologies