An X-plane project under the direction of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Liberty Lifter will be designed to operate at sea for weeks at a time, capable of both water and traditional runway landings. When traversing long distances across water, the seaplane will seek to exploit the ground effect, flying just a few metres above the sea’s surface to redu...
As the official simulation software partner of Air Race E, Ansys enables teams to overcome some of the key engineering challenges of fully electric flight. Air Race E, the world’s first and only all-electric airplane racing championship, is a competitive platform that will accelerate the development of more electric and fully electric propulsion for aerospace applicatio...
Upgrade work began in June of 2021 but the opportunity to capture this cultural icon and preserve it as a digital twin was recognized by the team at Ventus Tech, given their commitment to capturing reality above ground and underwater. Offering 13 different types of output data for their projects, the team puts in a real effort to capturing and delivering what engineers c...
Chinese aerospace firm Space Transportation said it’s developing a combination aircraft and winged rocket that will eventually be used for space tourism. The aircraft will also be used as a supersonic business jet that can link any two points on Earth, reports Space.com. The company said that a flight from Beijing to New York would only take an hour. A CGI presentation ...
Based in Santa Ana, California, Overair will use the funding on the ongoing development and commercialisation of Butterfly, the company’s six seat, all-electric aircraft designed to take off and land vertically. In addition to their investment, Hanwha will also provide electric motors and battery packs for Overair's prototypes, as the two companies expand their R&D co-o...
Breaking ground later this year, the Overture Superfactory at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina will draw on the strong regional aviation workforce and close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean to assemble, build, and flight test Overture aircraft. Superfactory The 65-acre location will house the final assembly line, testing facility, an...
Developed in partnership with Safran and Airbus and supported by France’s CORAC civil aviation research council, the test aircraft is based on the TBM 900-series airframe and features six wing-mounted 50-kW electric motors in addition to its standard Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprop engine. Its purpose is to develop the key architectural principles for future hybrid ...
“This award-winning G700 interior is featured on our first fully outfitted production-test aircraft, proving design maturity and excellence,” said Gulfstream president Mark Burns. That aircraft—S/N 6—joined the flight-test fleet in April 2021 and is currently being used for function and reliability testing. Certification for the G700 is still expected by year-end, though...
Memphis International Airport (MEM) in Tennessee, US, is set to unveil its upgraded B concourse on 15 February. The new concourse will receive a Delta Air Lines flight as its first flight while departing flights will commence operations on 16 February. MEM is currently executing a $245m modernisation project, which is set to complete soon. The airport is working on co...
US-based hybrid-electric ultra-short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft maker Electra.aero (Electra) has secured investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures (LMV) in a Series A financing round. The investment from LMV, a venture capital arm of Lockheed Martin Corporation, will be used by Electra to test its hybrid eSTOL technology demonstrator aircraft later in 2022. LM...
However, the latest developments will be a welcome addition to the passenger experience in economy class. Launching in Q4 this year the airline will not only be giving every economy passenger a 35% larger cushion with a 200-thread count cotton cover to pair with the fully-recycled plastic soft-touch blanket, but also an entirely new tableware product. While the product ...
With airlines and air travel hitting one of its lowest points in a long time, airports which were previously top of the list for numbers of passengers and movements, suddenly found themselves quieter and without much of their usual business. For aviation enthusiasts and plane spotters, when we could go out, we found airports deserted or operating at much quieter levels ...
This country is south eastern Europe consists of a large land mass and a number of smaller islands in the Aegean Sea, stretching all the way to the Turkish coast. These islands all play their part in welcoming tourists to the resorts, beaches and stunning scenery they have to offer. Because of the overwater journeys involved, most of these islands have airports which se...
The Vision flight deck is the Collins Pro Line Fusion flight deck, which has been adopted by Bombardier within different configurations for various Global and Challenger models, including the recently launched Challenger 3500. Bombardier's Global 8000 brochure shows the latest configuration of the Vision flight deck includes a fly-by-wire system with four large cockpit d...
Yesterday saw the grand reveal of the airline’s interiors, which adds a deeper complexity to the livery design, injecting a surprising level of substance and style to the airline. Instead of opting for a bright, summery interior, which probably most of us were expecting, there’s something that’s ‘smart leisure’ about the brand with swathes of navy and brushed copper, and...
Considering the rise in premium leisure travel the airline should be able to cash in on the increase in leisure travellers willing to spend a little more on their aircraft experience. The reconfiguration of aircraft cabins will be carried out by specialists at KLM Engineering & Maintenance at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and by November 2023, the transformation will be co...
The VoloConnect, an electric fixed-wing passenger aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing, could enter into service as early as 2026. Volocopter has two other electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) designs—the VoloCity, designed for urban air mobility (UAM) applications, and the VoloDrone, an uncrewed utility drone. Volocopter’s team plans to continue ...
Taylor Alberstadt, Global Sales and Marketing Lead of Honeywell’s UAS/UAM group, noted that this is a 50/50 partnership with automotive components manufacturer DENSO. “It is truly a coming together of two equal industry giants,” he told Avionics International in an interview. The e-motor is designed with Lilium’s unique needs in mind, and it weighs less than 4 kilogram...
Founder and CEO of DroneUp, Tom Walker, described this as the largest rollout of drone delivery services in the United States. “It’s also going to be an opportunity to drive further user adoption by moving into new communities, and also being able to leverage the platforms that we’ll be using in those hubs to support the local communities through additional drone service...
According to the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), the operator of DEL airport, the transition will gradually take place over four months. The 62 electric vehicles will support various ground airport operations in its airside area, including the runway, taxiway, and apron. DIAL estimates that new-generation vehicles will help the airport reduce up to 1,000 tonn...
The plane's range and payload capabilities will help it to perform time and temperature sensitive cargo flights, the air cargo carrier added. The aircraft, registered A6-EFT, has already completed its first cargo flight. According to flight history published on Flightradar24.com, the freighter took off from Boeing’s Paine Field (PAE) in Seattle on May 26, 2022 to pick ...
Aerox Aviation Oxygen Systems has acquired the aviation oxygen assets of Sky-Ox, it was announced Tuesday. “The acquisition gives Aerox additional breadth to its line of portable oxygen systems for cargo, commercial, and business and general aviation users and supplemental type certificates for installed oxygen systems for a range of general aviation aircraft models,” ...
The B-21 Raider, the U.S. Air Force’s next generation of stealth bomber, has successfully completed loads calibration testing and is on track to take its first flight next year, according to Northrop Grumman. The news emerged as Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota—location of the first operational B-21 Raider unit—broke ground last week on a 95,000-square-foot Low Ob...
As Russia’s war in Ukraine nears the 100th day of fighting this week, one piece of Ukrainian military gear—a combat drone—is now in demand around the world, according to the Turkish tech company that makes it. Since the onset of the invasion of Ukraine on February 25, the Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drone has been celebrated as a force multiplier, a symbol of Ukraine’s r...
Eviation’s sleek, all-electric airplane demonstrator–dubbed Alice–reportedly completed a low speed taxi testing program this month at Arlington Municipal Airport (KAWO), in Washington, north of Seattle, and is “gearing up” for its first flight “this summer.” The FlightGlobal report, from the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE 2022) in Geneva, qu...
VAT has manufactured an experimental kit version derived from that aircraft under the name Hummingbird since 1991 after acquiring the engineering data, flight-test data, and drawings from Sikorsky in 1987. It now plans to enter the commercial market. The new, certified version will be known as the Hummingbird S-52L, which VAT said “has been redesigned with modification...
On April 26, 2016, the main rotor separated from an Airbus Helicopters EC225LP (LN-OJF) that was cruising at 2,000 feet and 140 knots near Turoy, Norway, while transporting offshore oil workers. All 13 aboard were killed. In the wake of the accident, the worldwide Super Puma fleet was grounded, a large portion of it for more than a year. Offshore unions moved quickly to ...
He has been designing luxury aircraft livery for more than a decade, ranging from business jets and airliners to helicopters. What drew him to the ACJ TwoTwenty? “Initially the shape of the aircraft,” Wolff said. “The nature of the shape all around the cockpit; I look at an aircraft from the left to the right, and the story begins on the left, finishing to the right on ...
ForeFlight’s (Booth G67) flight planning has been expanded to a suite of capabilities and worldwide coverage that include ForeFlight Mobile EFB, Dispatch flight operations planning, integrated runway analysis, and ForeFlight Fuel Advisor. Web-based Dispatch helps operators integrate flight planning and briefing functions, by quickly transmitting new flight plans to assig...
The Astronautics products that Extant will manufacture and support include electromechanical horizontal situation indicators, attitude director indicators, and bearing distance heading indicators. The product line will transition to Extant through the third quarter of this year, but customers should continue working with Astronautics sales operations team members during ...
In road mode, the Liberty has a top speed of 160 km/h on its 100-hp engine and a range of 1,315 km. Converted into a flying machine, it can reach up to 180 km/h with a range of up to 500 km with reserves. Having first flown a prototype in 2012, PAL-V received full road certification for the design in 2020. Now the company is focusing on receiving EASA CS-27 small rotorc...
The two-year project, which began this month, has been dubbed Helicopter Underwater Escape #2 and will be funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research program. It is a follow-on to the Helicopter Underwater Evacuation project conducted from 2019-2020 and was spurred by the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch’s report on the fatal August 2013 crash of an Airbus...
NASA leads efforts in the U.S. and worldwide both to detect and track potentially hazardous asteroids and to study technologies to mitigate or avoid impacts on Earth. If an asteroid were discovered and determined to be on a collision course with Earth, one response could be to launch a “kinetic impactor” – a high-velocity spacecraft that would deflect the asteroid by ram...
The Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) 2021’s main focus was on how technology can boost the global economy and collaboration while putting sustainability and diversity at the forefront. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the first government in the Middle East that have pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Primarily relying on oil sa...
This year’s competition, which received more than 80 entries from around the world, challenged students to envision airport mobility in the year 2100. Carmina Ferreras and Oluwarotimi Osiberu, third year Master of Architecture students at North Carolina State University, were awarded first place, which includes a $15,000 cash prize. Their entry imagined a new airport i...
Digital images released on December 1 show eight ducted fans for vertical lift, with four installed in the main wing and four more in a new large canard, as well a single horizontal propeller at the top of the tail section and another in the nose of the aircraft. An earlier design, released by the Toulouse-based company in February, had just a pair of ducted fans for ver...
