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Honeywell Launches Kestrel Drone Navigation Solution

Compact, cost-effective system applicable to smaller UAS platforms

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Drone flying over water at sunset

Deutsche Aircraft Working On Multi-Role Support Drone

Uncrewed platform would complement multi-mission D328MR variant

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Deutsche Aircraft is developing drones

JetZero Breaks Ground on Z4 Factory in North Carolina

Greensboro campus to build blended-wing-body airliner

JetZero groundbreaking

Eve 100 eVTOL Set to Make Low-speed Transition Flight

Flight envelope expansion precedes first crewed mission in mid-2027

Eve eVTOL technology demonstrator in doorway of hangar

Beta’s New Alia CX300 Electric Aircraft Has Flown Coast to Coast in the U.S.

An electric CTOL aircraft will be easier to certify than an eVTOL, and has many applications.

Beta Technologies Alia CX300 flying over frozen landscape

Lack of Funding Stops Work at Lilium and Eviation. Is Electric Aviation Going Bust?

The road to certification is an expensive one.

February 26, 2025

Composite image with rendering of Lilium Jet and photo of Eviation prototype in flight

Testing Starts For Eve Air Mobility’s eVTOL Aircraft Prototype

As competitors drop out of the eVTOL race, Eve is pressing ahead.

February 11, 2025

Eve Air Mobility test aircraft with pusher motor running

In Japan, New eVTOL Aircraft Are Seen As a Way to Improve Public Transportation

Japans geography makes it an appealing market for eVTOLs

December 5, 2024

view of AutoFlight Prosperity eVTOL on the ground

How Hydrogen Can Generate Electricity To Power Aircraft

A simple explanation of how hydrogen fuel cells work for aircraft.

Hydrogen fuel cell demonstrator at Aero Friedrichshafen 2026

NASA’s X-59 Reaches Mission Performance of Mach 1.4

NASA is expanding the envelope as it readies aircraft for supersonic flight over communities

NASA X-59

Hybrid-electric Aircraft Developer Maeve Goes Bankrupt

Dutch start-up failed to raise the €20 million it needed to continue

Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Maeve Jet

Indonesia Approves AutoFlight’s Autonomous eVTOL Aircraft

Southeast Asian state validated the aircraft’s Chinese type certificate

AutoFlight V2000CG CarryAll eVTOL aircraft

More Operators Sign for Vaeridion’s Electric Microliner

General Atomics plans to use Vaeridion’s batteries for its drones

Vaeridion at ILA 2026

TPE331 Engine Will Power Swarm Aero’s Large Military Drone

Swarm says it is now building production-ready uncrewed air system

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Swarm Aero Honeywell TPE331 engine

Electric Aviation Innovators Call for Bizjet Taxes

Open letter to European Commission calls for more support and tax reform

Sustainability and Environment

Vaeridion Microliner

ERC Unveils Victor Hybrid-electric VTOL Cargo Drone

First prototype was unveiled at the ILA 2026 air show this week in Berlin

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

ERC System's Victor cargo drone

Helios Horizon Flies Solid-State Battery Demonstrator

Nonprofit group targets stratospheric electric flight this year

Helios Horizon founder and chief test pilot Miguel Iturmendi stands with his modified Pipistrel Taurus

Electra Unveils Turbo-electric Airliner Concept

‘Double-bubble’ fuselage promises efficiency gains

Electra’s NASA AACES 2050 airliner concept

Airbus H145 Joining Uncrewed Helicopter Arena

First flight is expected at the end of 2026 and entry into service in the early 2030s

Airbus Helicopters' U145 uncrewed, autonomous helicopter

NASA’s X-59 Demonstrator Goes Supersonic

X-plane reached Mach 1.1 during 81-minute flight

NASA X-59 demonstrator

FAA Clears Boeing to Start TIA Phase 4B Testing on 777X

Milestone marks progress in efforts to complete delayed type certification

Boeing 777-9

Merlin’s Autonomous C-130J Passes Critical Design Review

USSOCOM program advances into aircraft integration phase

A gray U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules turboprop transport aircraft in flight

Volocopter Reveals VoloXPro eVTOL for the Light-sport Aircraft Market

The VoloXPro will come to the market at a relatively low price compared to other eVTOL aircraft.

Rendering of Volocopter VoloXPro eVTOL aircraft

GE Completes Hybrid-electric Powertrain Ground Tests

Engine maker says it is now preparing to start flight testing

GE Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration