Detailing its plans for deploying the several types of advanced air mobility vehicles it has on order, Bristow Group says it is important for established operators to play an active role in ensuring the safe introduction of the new types of aircraft.
California-based electrical vertical takeoff and landing startup Overair has begun assembly of the XP-1 uncrewed full-scale demonstrator for the Butterfly tiltrotor air taxi which is expected to fly by the end of 2023.
An oft-cited talking point for critics of the Lockheed Martin F-35 is simply to state the program’s official $1.68 trillion cost estimate, which is usually rounded up to a cleaner $1.7 trillion.
The independent study team plans to spend nine months collecting unclassified UAP data from civilian government agencies, commercial entities and other sources and recommend a path forward for future analysis.
U.S. and European aviation regulators have established the requirements for certifying electrified aircraft propulsion systems, but how industry can demonstrate compliance with those rules is a work in progress.
The U.S. Army has an aggressive schedule for developing and fielding future variants of its surface-to-surface Precision Strike Missile as it prioritizes the longest-range variant.
The U.S. Army is testing its ability to fire guided munitions from small uncrewed aircraft systems, bringing its high-tech approach to a capability that has proven its effectiveness in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
The U.S. Marine Corps has taken the first step toward fielding a new Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Family of Systems (FOS), releasing a request for information (RFI) on Oct. 21 to gather information on available options.
Several space launch providers have joined a team led by Dynetics that has been selected by the U.S. Defense Department to accelerate the pace of hypersonic vehicle testing.
Letters of intent to purchase aircraft are not orders, despite the propensity of advanced air mobility startups to describe them as such. But they do provide an indication of who is interested in these new types of aircraft.
New imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected second trail of debris emerging from Dimorphos, the asteroid target for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission impact on Sept. 26.
Portugal has taken delivery of the first of five Embraer KC-390 tanker-transports ordered in 2019 amid a broader increase in defense spending by Lisbon.
The UK government is offering £10 million ($11.2 million) in funding for net-zero propulsion projects under a competition aimed at all transportation sectors including aviation.
The U.S. Army has started looking for another supplier to increase the output and lower the price of the solid rocket motor that powers the Dark Eagle missile for the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon and the U.S. Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike programs.
Back on Earth from a 170-day mission to the International Space Station, NASA’s Crew-4 quartet of U.S. and European astronauts have some recommendations for developers of the commercial low-Earth-orbit successors to the ISS that is now in its final decade of planned operations.
