NASA awards Boeing Sustainable Flight Demonstrator contract news Yves Le Marquand 19 Jan 23 0 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… Read more
NASA to invest in real-time negotiation system for AAM news Yves Le Marquand 12 Jan 23 0 NASA is investing in building a digital architecture to connect vehicle, infrastructure and airspace for automated real-time negotiations during AAM operations. With a first system… Read more
NASA crash tests eVTOL concept news Yves Le Marquand 3 Jan 23 0 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… Read more
Ampaire wins $150,000 from NASA small business programme news Yves Le Marquand 9 Dec 22 0 Ampaire has won a $150,000 Phase 1 award from NASA under its Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) programme. The award, to be used on Ampaire’s… Read more
XWing selected to join FAA’s COSTA programme news Yves Le Marquand 2 Dec 22 0 Xwing is participating in the FAA’s Crosscutting Operations Strategy and Technical Assessment (COSTA) project, with support from NASA. The COSTA project looks at the management… Read more
Stacking perception: Xwing and NASA combine on autonomous flight Deep Dive Yves Le Marquand 25 Oct 22 0 The largest elephant in advanced air mobility’s room is autonomy. Making an aircraft that can safely take off, fly and land by itself is one… Read more
NASA and Xwing to develop autonomous flight processes news Yves Le Marquand 18 Oct 22 0 Xwing have been awarded a contract by NASA to develop safety procedures for autonomous aviation design and operations. Led by NASA’s System-Wide Safety Project (SWS),… Read more
NASA developing ‘solid-state’ battery for electric aircraft news Yves Le Marquand 17 Oct 22 0 NASA is developing a battery pack that it says is “lighter, safer, and performs better” than batteries used in electric vehicles today. Researchers are investigating… Read more