Aerospace Emerging Technologies
Mar 31, 2022
Fiscal 2023 plans set another record for science as the agency places a premium on climate change research.
Mar 29, 2022
For a key supplier famous for not chasing high-growth prospects, setting up a UAM business group seems incongruous. Except it is not.
Mar 28, 2022
Clean Aviation’s first call; Polaris spaceplane demonstrator; Bioinspired Venus flyer; and Robust hybrid-electric propulsion.
Mar 25, 2022
Under renewed European pressure against fossil fuels, Clean Aviation project sets research and technology framework for coming years.
Mar 24, 2022
Despite the bureaucratic hydra, the U.S. is likely to have a lead-free atmosphere years before 2030.
Aug 11, 2021
A specialist in dexterous robotic manipulators has received $1 million in U.S. Army funding to develop a system to autonomously refuel Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters in the field.
Aug 11, 2021
Tokyo-based startup SkyDrive has begun cooperating with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on aerodynamic research to support development of its planned electric urban air vehicle.
Aug 11, 2021
PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA—To a soundtrack of “Levitating” by English pop singer Dua Lipa, about 100 suit-clad dignitaries filed into Building 658 on the…
Aug 10, 2021
The test brings ZeroAvia a step closer to first flight of a Dornier 228 testbed powered by the system before the end of the year.
Aug 10, 2021
Plans for the center will be welcomed by the U.S. high-speed systems development community, which for years has highlighted the shortage of adequate centralized hypersonic test facilities.
Aug 10, 2021
The FAA is closing in on its first special condition for type certification of an electric propulsion system, and acknowledges that amending requirements developed over decades for piston and turbine engines is proving challenging.
Aug 09, 2021
Beta Technologies believes the most direct path to FAA certification of an electric aircraft is to keep the vehicle simple.
Aug 06, 2021
The Singapore government is currently reviewing a feasibility study developed alongside industry players on mixing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with conventional jet fuel in a bid to increase the uptake of SAF in the island state.