NASA awards Boeing Sustainable Flight Demonstrator contract

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Yves Le Marquand

19 Jan 23

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NASA has selected Boeing to lead the development and flight testing of a full-scale Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) demonstrator aircraft. The technology is being developed…

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Horizon releases Cavorite hover test footage

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Yves Le Marquand

17 Jan 23

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Horizon Aircraft has released the first footage of its Cavorite X5 scale prototype in the air. Earlier this month Revolution.Aero reported that the Canada-based eVTOL…

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Supernal and Microsoft to jointly develop critical technology for AAM

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Yves Le Marquand

6 Jan 23

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Supernal is collaborating with Microsoft to develop autonomy, digital operations and cloud integration technologies.  The firms intend to do this by running AAM on the…

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GE’s Avio Aero awarded €34m to fund AMBER demonstrator

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Yves Le Marquand

5 Jan 23

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Avio Aero has been awarded approximately €34m over four years by the European Commission’s Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking to fund its AMBER demonstrator aircraft. The…

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NASA crash tests eVTOL concept

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Yves Le Marquand

3 Jan 23

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NASA researchers have completed a full-scale crash test of an eVTOL concept at the agency’s Landing and Impact Research (LandIR) facility. NASA’s aims to help…

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ZeroAvia to begin test flights this month

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Yves Le Marquand

3 Jan 23

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ZeroAvia is to begin flight testing this month after the UK CAA granted it a Part 21 permit to fly. The start-up, which operates a…

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Boom reveals supersonic propulsion system Symphony

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Yves Le Marquand

14 Dec 22

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Boom Supersonic has revealed Symphony, the tailor-made propulsion system designed for its Overture aircraft.  The firm also announced that it will be partnering with Florida…

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Spaceport Cornwall attains first-ever UK spaceport licence

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Yves Le Marquand

23 Nov 22

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Spaceport Cornwall received the UK’s first ever spaceport licence, bringing the country’s first orbital space launch one step closer. The UK CAA issued the licence,…

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Evia Aero adds five hydrogen kits to LoI with Cranfield

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Yves Le Marquand

16 Nov 22

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Bremen-based start-up Evia Aero has added five more hydrogen fuel-cell based conversion kits to its Letter of Intent (LoI) with Cranfield Aerospace Solutions (CAeS).  The…

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Blue Spirit designing aircraft using Dassault Systèmes platform

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Yves Le Marquand

7 Nov 22

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French hydrogen fuel cell startup, Blue Spirit Aero has begun using Dassault Systèmes’ cloud-based platform 3DExperience to design, test and validate its Dragonfly aircraft. Over…

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EvoLux’s empty leg features: Democratising private air travel

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Yves Le Marquand

4 Nov 22

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Florida-based start-up EvoLux is launching a digital empty leg tool that it hopes can “truly democratise private aviation”. There has always been an excess of…

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