Emerging Technologies

The Air Force looks to Agility Prime and eVTOLs as a potential model for engaging with commercial technology innovators.

Ask the Editors: Sustainable aviation fuels are technically viable today; it is their economic viability that remains in question.

Ground trials of fiber-optic-based rotor blade sensing technology could lead to flight trials in the coming years.

Robotics, Bluetooth tracking and blockchain are among technologies smoothing operations throughout the supply chain.

Ask the Editors: The Pentagon’s hypersonic prototypes rely on a large number of small, boutique companies with highly specialized skills.

Agility Prime kicks off; glimpse inside Joby; high-altitude hopes; expanding additive manufacturing; democratizing fly-by-wire.

Readers write about steadfast AW&ST subscribers, FARA contenders, rocket reusability and advanced propulsion.

It is critical that aerospace companies invest in strategic priorities now to ensure their long-term competitiveness.

After a late start, European industry is moving to close gap on high-speed missiles.

The Federal Communications Commission green-lights a terrestrial 5G system opposed by many federal government agencies and aerospace companies.

Fielding a technology that can expand the use of additive manufacturing in parts production, startup Velo3D has secured $28 million in Series D funding, taking total financing raised so far to $138 million.

North Carolina seeks to use FAA pilot projects against the coronavirus.

Startup Skyryse is flight testing the software for the first application of its FlightOS automation system as it progresses toward certification of the aircraft-agnostic fly-by-wire (FBW) architecture on its first platform.

Automatic tanking could optimize refueling rates and reduce human workloads.

Norway and U.S. close cooperation on missiles and propulsion is expanding into the near-hypersonic regime.

U.S. Air Force eVTOL event; EHang plans E-port; Zipline fights COVID-19; Pipistrel measures DEP noise; Onera tests airship.

Ask the Editors: Defense Editor Steve Trimble responds.

The first crewed flight test in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is targeted for a May 27 launch.

Airbus nudges the RACER first flight to the fourth quarter of 2021, citing program management complexity for the high-speed rotorcraft.

The Quad/Vent Splitter quadruples ventilator capability to help save lives.

After having let employees generate many digital tools, Airbus is streamlining their creation and use.

How the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry will fare in the aftermath of the COVID-19 impact on commercial aviation is far from clear. But most

Airship in wind tunnel; X-57 ground tests; battery for hybrid-electric demonstrator; next-gen fuel cell; EASA’s drone rules.

Owners realize an aircraft’s residual value by removing and selling parts and must now dismantle in an environmentally sustainable way.

Distributed electric propulsion for powered lift could redefine regional mobility, Aurora founder Langford believes.