Airbus
Why eVTOL sims could be a bridge to the future of flight training
Market-driven advancements in VR tech and certification could help address the pilot shortage, too.
Now airborne, Universal Hydrogen looks ahead to ATR commercialization
Technical challenges and configuration decisions lay ahead for the startup's first exclusively hydrogen...
Three Points: Kansas City & Sierra Leone, arduous drone certification, 737 tweaks
Vol. 63
Southwest and the return of the tiny aircraft tweak
Airlines re-embrace razor-thin incremental carbon-cutting updates.
Air India joins aircraft boom, but history of airline busts loom
Also, industrial and geopolitical realities in China give India a growing role in Boeing’s supply chain.
Airbus & Boeing 2022 deliveries: An interactive data visualization
The Air Current dissects Boeing & Airbus industrial output in 2022 with an interactive visualization.
Special Report: The number at the center of an eVTOL safety debate
Ten to the minus nine, 10-9, has become a proxy for safety in aircraft design. Now, it is a focal point...
With hundreds ordered, United wonders when its new fleet will arrive
Also United has ‘handshake’ agreement for Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines for A321neo fleet.
United mega-deal sets carrier on a three-decade journey of constrained expansion
No new runways and no new clean sheet Boeing airplanes, as United doubles down on up to 300 more 787 and...
Airbus quietly cultivates ‘building block’ tech for A320 successor
ZeroE gets the headlines, but previously unreported eAction program centers on the next evolution of...