A new generation of electric, hybrid, and hydrogen aircraft developers are hoping to succeed where very light jets did not.
2018 is the year Rolls-Royce would love to forget. Take it from the viewpoint of its customer Air New Zealand,...
“The wake up call of the Max was something that told them that all was not right.”
Globalization, technology and crippling debt will shape the future of flying after COVID-19, says longtime Emirates airline president Sir Tim Clark.
When Embraer spinoff Eve on Dec. 21 confirmed plans to combine with Zanite Acquisition Corp., it became the sixth company in the urban air mobility space to link up with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Rather than speak to the continued strength of SPACs, however, the deal illustrates the funding vehicle’s decline as an ample source of outside capital — even as it cements Embraer’s strategy of using partnerships to expand into new markets.
The first of two parts examining the strategic landscape for the remaining Embraer and Bombardier business aircraft units. Precisely a...
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateSeptember 21, 2019The end of Embraer and the beginning of Boeing Brasil...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ intent to cultivate a new market for the Japanese conglomerate in North America has been withdrawn. Its purpose, the creation of a next-generational regional jet, is on hold indefinitely. Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation, or Mitac, MHI’s commercial aircraft unit, is now set to shutter its operations in North America and Europe, the company confirmed last Friday. With letting go of Mitac’s international presence, its parent has reabsorbed its aircraft division leaving an indefinitely-paused future for the existing M90.
The Air Current has focused recent months extensively reporting on Airbus’s, until now, secret research effort to completely re-wing a Cessna business jet and rapidly accelerate a suite of new advanced flight control technologies -- including a foldable wingtip designed to flap freely in turbulence and maneuvers.
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Embedded inside the strategic assumptions underpinning flying with hydrogen paint a very different future for aviation than the one to which the industry has become accustomed over the last 40 years.
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateMarch 19, 2019737 Max airlines take cover under the wing of a...