The technology of things that fly
Airlines around 2035 could save money on fuel with Boeing-built airliners designed to reduce drag with long, thin wings extending from the top of the fuselage that are braced by trusses jutting up from the bottom of the aircraft.
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Boeing and Embraer aim to gain approval from regulators and shareholders to complete a joint venture between their companies by the end of 2019 now that Brazil’s government announced it will not oppose the deal.
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A team of aerospace companies led by Bell are building an electric-powered vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that could be ready to fly commuters from suburbs into cities by 2023 if they can win the trust of consumers and safety regulators.
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A team of UK-based companies led by Rolls-Royce aims to build the fastest completely electric-powered plane ever to prove that eliminating fossil fuel emissions from aircraft doesn’t have to come at the cost of speed.
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The two pilots of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo earned their commercial astronaut wings on Thursday by firing the plane’s rocket for 60 seconds after being dropped from a larger airplane and launching to the boundary of space 51 miles above Earth’s surface.
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NASA and FAA are planning test flights for companies designing sky taxis to confront barriers to public acceptance including safety and noise.
Read moreIn the wake of the fatality aboard a Southwest Airlines flight in April, aircraft technicians sent ultrasonic waves through the fan blades of thousands of jet engines to check for metal fatigue. Investigators quickly suspected that a blade broke off from the left engine of the Southwest Boeing 737-700, spraying debris into the fuselage and causing the deadly decompression that
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