Aerospace Emerging Technologies
Jul 11, 2022
As NASA invites bids to build and fly its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, technology editor Graham Warwick and senior editor Guy Norris hear how this aircraft will differ from the agency’s prior X-planes. They talked to Rich Wahls, NASA’s newly appointed Sustainable Flight National Partnership mission integration manager at the AIAA Aviation 2022 conference in Chicago.
Jul 08, 2022
Digital engineering helped Raytheon score the first U.S. flight test of an air-breathing hypersonic missile demonstrator since 2013.
Jul 08, 2022
X-59 Quesst Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator is in the final stages of assembly at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works.
Jul 08, 2022
Novel algorithm is behind startup’s claimed breakthrough
Jul 08, 2022
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Nov 25, 2021
Startup Heart Aerospace has selected the Spanish aerostructures company to build the fuselage, empennage and wing for its all-electric regional airliner the ES-19.
Nov 24, 2021
The regional airliner concept uses distributed hybrid-electric propulsion to reduce energy consumption.
Nov 24, 2021
Rolls-Royce says it has generated more than a megawatt of power in ground runs of a hybrid-electric engine on a testbed which is designed to pave the way for future development of a hybrid-electric regional propulsion system.
Nov 22, 2021
The two companies will work together on choosing the optimum routes and altitudes for Etihad aircraft to fly at with the aim of inhibiting contrails—a phenomenon that significantly contributes to global warming.
Nov 22, 2021
China’s AVIC Aerodynamics Research Institute says it has completed construction of a new hypersonic wind tunnel that is reportedly able to simulate speeds from Mach 4 to Mach 8.
Nov 17, 2021
Italian manufacturer Tecnam Aircraft has launched a transition program to enable buyers to transition via the P2012 Traveller nine-passenger regional aircraft to the P-Volt all-electric version.
Nov 17, 2021
When Scott Kirby, 54, took over the CEO position at United Airlines in May 2020 after four years as its president, the airline industry was in its worst-ever crisis.
Nov 12, 2021
Explorer Aircraft is developing a hybrid-electric regional airplane derived from the high-wing single-engine Explorer 500T utility aircraft, a more powerful version of which it plans to fly with a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6-40A turboprop over the coming weeks.