Emerging Technologies

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Airbus and global industrial gases and engineering company Linde are broadening their cooperation agreement to study the logistics aspects of hydrogen use in aviation.

Redwire has sold what it says is the “first” space-manufactured optical crystal, to researchers at Ohio State University.

As Europe’s Clean Sky 2 research and technology project is nearing the end, Airbus and industry partners are expected to complete the construction of their multifunction fuselage demonstrator, aiming at lower cost and weight and fast-paced manufacturing.

Using virtual reality to fly a helicopter has money-saving potential.

The inferiority of batteries as energy sources compared with aviation fuel is widely accepted. Yet electric aviation startups continue to push the envelope of what battery-powered aircraft can achieve.

Trials will measure ability to handle applications such as a long-range artillery shell and a Mach 4 air-launched missile.

From sustainable materials to improved wheelchair access, cabins must be a part of aviation’s reassessment.

A German startup plans to demonstrate the weight-saving structural integration of a battery system into a wing as the first step toward developing a nine-passenger all-electric regional airliner with a range of 270 nm.

The flight, which marked the first time Roc had flown at altitudes required for effective launch trajectories of Stratolaunch’s Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle, lasted just over three hours.

Boeing is modifying a 777-200ER into a testbed for 30 new technologies in the latest campaign of the company’s 10-year-long ecoDemonstrator evaluation program.

An interim software fix for the Pegasus is delayed due to errors in the first modified aircraft.

DARPA has launched a new project that sees a fresh role for the U.S. Air Force fleet of aerial tankers as airborne recharging points for networks of electric-powered UAS by adding a wing-mounted laser pod.

Modeling and 3D-printing advances combine to enable development of high-temperature alloy with lower cost and greater performance.

The pinnacle of aviation manufacturing could be located in the Blue Ridge Mountains and see everything under one roof.

Electroflight battery; AR air combat; Unconventional UAV; Drone acoustic DAA; Hover with range.

A trend that was already underway before the pandemic has been given a boost by COVID-19.

Building on its involvement in a UK project that set a speed record for electric aircraft, energy storage specialist Electroflight has introduced a battery system designed to be available off the shelf for use in the early development of electric aircraft.

WestJet and Delta Air Lines among launch group for Aero Design Lab-developed Boeing 737 Next-Gen fuel burn improvement package.

SpaceX is making headway in space MRO.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

As it prepares to launch its Airspeeder racing series, Australia’s Alauda Aeronautics says it plans to develop a supercar-style high-performance eVTOL vehicle for private owners.

Shield AI, an artificial intelligence startup targeting the aerospace and defense market, announced on June 9 it had garnered $90 million in private-equity issuance and $75 million in new debt as part of a Series E fund-raising round.

Is commercial aerospace biding its time or laying the groundwork for a digital transformation? The answer is yes.

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