Flight

• [New] Airbus and Boeing watch out - one of the world's largest aircraft owners says passenger planes could see their wings clipped by the rapid spread of flying taxi startups. / Reuters
• [New] The United States faces a number of pressing domestic issues, and increasingly new technologies are becoming available that will make carriers less suitable for the role they were intended, not more. / Responsible Statecraft
• [New] DHL Global Forwarding's partnership with United Airlines, as a part of the Eco-Skies Alliance program, will purchase 3.4 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel in 2021 to reduce emissions. / Triple Pundit
• [New] DHL Global Forwarding's partnership with United Airlines to purchase sustainable aviation fuel signifies a step in the right direction to address the impact that the air transportation sector will increasingly have on the environment if left unchecked. / Triple Pundit
• [New] American Airlines and Virgin Atlantic are looking to much shorter flights to expand their future services, each inking deals that could see them piloting electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft in the US and UK, respectively. / SlashGear
• [New] Vertical Aerospace, which is based in Bristol, said its electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) could be in service by 2024, once safety regulators certify it. / The Guardian
• [New] In September last year, Airbus presented three concepts for a hydrogen plane to enter service in 2035 including a turboprop, a traditional-looking twin-engined plane powered by hybrid-hydrogen engines and a more radical blended-wing body aircraft. / Reuters
• [New] Airbus officials say the research will, in any event, seed disruptive technology likely to play a role in the next generation of airplanes. / Reuters
• [New] In June last year, France announced an increase in funding for the CORAC aviation research body including 1.5 billion euros over three years for technology such as hydrogen, rescuing 500 out of 15,000 jobs threatened by an Airbus restructuring. / Reuters
• [New] Before the end of this decade, we expect zero emission urban air mobility, enabled by EVTOLs, to play an increasingly important role in the global commercial aviation market. / The Irish Times
• [New] Airbus says the research will in any case seed disruptive technology likely to play a role in the next generation of airplanes. / Euronews.com
• [New] Zero-emission hydrogen aircraft will be primarily focused on regional and shorter-range aircraft from 2035, which means that current and future iterations of highly efficient gas turbines will still be required as we move towards 2050, especially for long-haul operations. / E&T
• [New] Airbus announced last September that it hopes to develop zero-emission aircraft which could enter service by 2035. / E&T
• [New] The electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft will be outfitted with Honeywell's Compact Fly-by-Wire System and an integrated avionics system tailored specifically for the Lilium Jet. / AVweb
• [New] SpaceX has signed a deal with Axiom Space, a Houston company that arranges private astronaut expeditions, for three more fully commercial Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station beyond Axiom's first Dragon flight in early 2022. / spaceflightnow
• [New] The larger rocket will clock in at 216 feet tall with a maximum payload capacity of 20,000 pounds to low Earth orbit. / TechCrunch
• [New] The new and upgraded AH-64E will deliver a significant enhancement to the UK's 1st Aviation Brigade which operates a previous variant of Apache. / UK Defence Journal
• [New] Like the Aeon 1 engine that's being developed for the Terran 1 rocket, the Terran R's engines will use cryogenic liquid methane and liquid oxygen as propellants. / GeekWire
• [New] The space technology developed by General Atomics will be launched onboard the SpaceX-made rocket from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida. / ExecutiveBiz
• [New] Drones will become very popular in Malta and the world, and we believe that one of the new jobs it will create is the drone controller, sort of a traffic controller of drones. / Lovin Malta
• [New] Flying in reusable mode, the Terran R rocket will be capable of delivering a payload of 20 metric tons, or 44,000 pounds, to low Earth orbit. / spaceflightnow
• [New] The next-generation Terran R rocket will eventually offer commercial and government customers a point-to-point space freighter capable of missions between the Earth, moon and Mars. / spaceflightnow

Last updated: 14 June 2021