Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
May 03, 2017
Denver-based Boom Technology founder and CEO Blake Scholl believes the company’s first supersonic passenger aircraft can enter commercial service as soon as 2023 and there is a market for as many as 1,000 supersonic airliners to be delivered by 2035.
May 02, 2017
China’s Commercial Aircraft Corp. (COMAC) plans to fly the first prototype of its C919 narrowbody May 6, according to an industry source close to the program.
May 02, 2017
Embraer reported a consolidated first-quarter 2017 net profit of $44.4 million, down 58.1% from the Brazilian manufacturer’s $106 million net profit in 1Q 2016.
May 02, 2017
UK regional carrier Flybe has signed a “combined commercial arrangement,” placing two Embraer E195s with Irish regional Stobart Air.
Aug 19, 2021
A new process for producing jet fuel from ethanol with less energy and smaller facilities creates the potential for a distributed processing system located close to biomass sources, according to its developers.
Aug 19, 2021
New Zealand regional airline Sounds Air has confirmed its launch orders with Swedish startup Heart Aerospace for an initial three ES-19 electric 19-passenger aircraft.
Aug 19, 2021
The U.S. startup’s Electric EEL completed several flights on a representative regional airline route from Kirkwall Airport on the island of Orkney to Wick John O’Groats Airport some 40 mi. away on the Scottish mainland.
Aug 19, 2021
Lee Noble, director of NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s Integrated Aviation Systems Program, recently updated the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics on the Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration effort.
Aug 19, 2021
Sustainable aviation fuel and new, more efficient aircraft are central to Embraer’s ESG goals.
Aug 18, 2021
One irony of the coronavirus era of commercial aviation will be that there is so much financing available to support a new Boeing airliner—just probably not internally.
Aug 18, 2021
The Austrian aerospace supplier's CEO said the second half of 2021 is so far showing positive signs for the industry and FACC anticipates renewed growth from 2022.
Aug 17, 2021
A Norwegian startup has unveiled plans to develop a nine-passenger electric seaplane and provide a regional aviation service connecting towns along the coast and in the fjords with flights over water.