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With Eviation's maiden flight fast approaching, the Washington state aerospace cluster is evolving as it becomes a focal point for green aviation aspirants and increasingly untethered from the enormous industrial gravity created by Boeing.
Before the eVTOL gold rush took shape, the National Research Council in 2014 explored how autonomy could transform aviation, but with a sober and realistic view on making it possible. Its findings are even more relevant in 2022.
Since 1969, only 13 western twin-aisle aircraft types have been certified by just four manufacturers. We visualized the production history of each one and the more than 9,500 that have been delivered to the world's airlines. The data illustrates the story more than a half century of unimaginable successes, stark failures and an incredible boom and bust.
Delta's A350 & 737 deals are done, clear signs of business travel's green shoots, Eviation's new look for its all-electric Alice.
A large turboprop freighter opens a new front in its strategy as Amazon expands its reach to smaller communities.
What Amazon needs to do in the air is driven by the ultimate reach and purpose of the courier on the ground. Amazon has two options for the path ahead. Either way, it needs more aircraft. Competing with FedEx and UPS means diversifying into smaller aircraft, while perfecting its own rapid retail delivery means bigger freighters.
Amazon is a retail company at its core, its logistics operations are in service to that end. For Amazon to directly fight FedEx and UPS, it risks doing so at the detriment of its own operations. As Amazon Air grows, its rise is not strictly zero-sum and FedEx and UPS benefit from the expanding marketplace.
UPS and FedEx are built around delivering overnight to anywhere. That's not Amazon's game, but the company is building an empire in the sky.
Decisions made by Airbus in the late 1980s are guiding the future second act for the A330 as a converted package-hauler.
The new airplanes of e-commerce If this global pandemic has proven anything, it’s that it has been a massive accelerator...
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