Abstract: This article presents a design process of a propulsion motor intended for manned electric aircraft, with a focus on energy consumption throughout an entire flight profile. The study begins ...
CTC GmbH – An Airbus Company has won a JEC Composites Innovation Award for SAUBER4.0, a holistically networked manufacturing approach which aims to make large composite aircraft structures, including ...
Military transport aircraft are often at their most vulnerable on the ground, where loading and unloading cargo can take precious time under threat of attack. During the early Cold War, Fairchild ...
In the late 1940s, a brand-new airliner was rushed into service during a fierce race between manufacturers. What no one realized was that a critical system carried a hidden danger. When crews followed ...
Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...
Pioneering the Future of Sustainable Flight Training with Advanced Carbon Fiber Innovation DENVER, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Bye Aerospace, Inc., a global leader in electric aviation, announced a ...
FILE - An American Airlines Airbus A321 takes off from Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Nov. 29, 2018. A smoking laptop in a passenger's bag prompted an ...
The FAA has finalized what its terms a “framework” for approving advanced automated systems in aircraft and applying current regulatory policies to concepts in the rapidly developing segment. The ...
This blog is a compilation of publicly available information on Safran Group’s (Paris, France) production of carbon fiber-reinforced carbon (carbon/carbon) brake discs for aircraft. The company ...
Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE:JOBY), a company developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, today announced that it has begun power-on testing of the first of several FAA-conforming ...
Electra.aero Inc. recently demonstrated the value of its hybrid-electric Ultra-STOL (short takeoff and landing) technology to provide critical military logistics support to areas that are impossible ...
A new 3-D-printed aluminum alloy is stronger than traditional aluminum, due to a key recipe that, when printed, produces aluminum (illustrated in brown) with nanometer scale precipitates (in light ...