One cabin door closes, another opens: It’s wholly unremarkable to see a Southwest Airlines 737 or an Emirates 777 land...
July 2023. Kingsford Smith International Airport. Sydney, Australia. Singapore Airlines Flight 242 is on its way back home. The mid-afternoon...
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateOctober 31, 2018The linchpin technology behind Boeing's 797Purchase a PDF of this...
Updated November 17 explaining MCAS and electric trim override operation. When Boeing set out to develop the 737 Max, engineers...
The fourth in a series focusing on Boeing’s road to developing its next all-new commercial airplane. Where did Boeing’s ‘Black Diamond’...
2018 is the year Rolls-Royce would love to forget. Take it from the viewpoint of its customer Air New Zealand,...
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Olathe, Kan. — I landed an airplane with a single push of a button. It’s not really fair to claim...
A modified ATR 42 began flight trials last week in Connecticut as part of an effort to test technology for single-pilot operations.
The pull back in commercial jetliner development makes the maturation of its model-based digital tools on the Defense & Space side of Boeing even more important.
DHC and Pratt & Whitney Canada are preparing to heavily modify a retired Dash 8-100 turboprop that will see half of its traditional propulsion replaced with a hybrid design. For the project, Pratt is designing a “new small engine” for sipping fuel at altitude. The 39-seat aircraft will have 20 to 24 battery packs to drive a 1 megawatt electric motor working in tandem with the new engine, providing the necessary horsepower when it’s needed most — at takeoff and climb.
As it prepares to fly a hybrid-electric demonstrator in 2024, De Havilland Aircraft of Canada says it’s all about designing an aircraft for a bad day.
