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Blended Wing Body Aircraft; The Future?
In the future passenger jet aircraft may look a little different than what we are accustomed to currently. The narrowbody single-aisle and double-aisle large body aircraft that have dominated the skies from manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus could soon have some competition by BWB type aircraft...
Baykar Completes Piaggio Aerospace Acquisition
Turkish entity Baykar has fully completed the acquisition of Piaggio Aerospace -Piaggio Industries and Piaggio Aviation-. The last time we heard about Baykar in relation to the acquisition of Piaggio was at the start of 2025...
ALIA CX300 Closing In On Certification
After being in the news recently regarding its first flight in New York, Beta Technologies ALIA CX300 is back in the news again. Beta had an example of their CX300 at the recently concluded 2025 edition of the Paris Air Show and naturally it caused a stir at the show. Many may know of Beta for currently developing the CX250 which is the eVTOL variant. The CX300 is actually the CTOL (conventional take off and landing) version which is edging closer to certification...
Samson 400 Eh/kg Battery Unveiled At 2025 Paris Air Show
Coming out of the recently concluded 2025 edition of the Paris Air Show, Everett Washington-based company magniX introduced more energy-dense battery cells. The Samson 400 Wh/kg Battery Cells are the company's latest generation and exceed the 300 Wh/kg Battery Cells that they introduced a year ago...
D328eco By Deutsche Aircraft
Deutsche Aircraft used the recently concluded 2025 edition of the Paris Air Show (PAS25) to update the industry on the the D328eco. They primarily announced some new partners on the project namely Aernnova and Garmin...
WindRunner Expected To Steal The Show In Paris
The 2025 edition of the Paris Air Show is going to get underway in the next few days and usually it is an air show that one can see a wide variation of aircraft at. However, this year is slated to have the largest aircraft in the world on display...
U.S Supersonic Ban Ordered To Be Rescinded
The current United States White House has issued an Executive Order pushing for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to repeal the long-standing ban of overland supersonic flights. This news would have been received well by many companies who are trying to revive the commercial supersonic realm in the United States. BOOM Supersonic is the current most advanced entity conducting supersonic testing...
Hermeus Quarterhorse Mk1 Takes Flight
Hermeus is ramping up for the first flight for the flight test campaign of the Quarterhorse Mk 1. So far, the Quarterhorse Mk 1 has been going through ground testing. Ground testing culminated in 130-knot (150 mph) taxi tests with full afterburner on Edwards' iconic dry lakebed, offering a valuable opportunity to validate aerodynamic model assumptions, assess the aircraft's directional control, and evaluate the performance of control surfaces, among other things. The Mk 1 has made its first flight now at the same Edwards Air Force Base in California...
Beta ALIA CX300 Lands First Flight In New York
A first live demonstration flight with actual passengers onboard a Beta ALIA CX300 electric aircraft has made history for New York. Onboard were Blade Air Mobility CEO Rob Wiesenthal and Republic Airways President Matt Koscal. The flight carried 1 pilot and 4 passengers and was made in partnership with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Beta used one of their prototypes to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport (KJFK). The prototype utilized in the demonstration was the CX300 which is the conventionally take-off and landing version. Beta also has the ALIA 250 which is the full eVTOL version...
Otto Aviation Moves Forward With Phantom 3500
Otto Aviation has been working on Laminar-flow technology to be able to gain as much efficiency as possible for their next end-goal project, the Phantom 3500 business aircraft. Getting there has not been easy and currently they have been working on the experimental demonstrator called the Celera 500. For those that do not know, Otto Aviation is a U.S. company and is endeavouring to bring the Phantom 3500 to market...
World's First Fan In-Wing Transition Flight By Cavorite X7
The Cavorite X7 is perhaps one of the only eVTOL type aircraft in existence that has this unique fan-arrangement. Instead of having the fans mounted on the outside of the wing with actuating nacelles that promote transition to flight, it has its fans mounted inside the wing itself. This means the forward and aft shell of the wing has to split to reveal the fans on the inside of the wing and canards...
Hybrid VX4 To Deliver Longer Range
Vertical Aerospace announced on May 12th that it is committing to producing a much longer range VX4. To do this, the aircraft will be hybrid as the all-electric version simply does not have the range that hybrid variants can produce. Vertical is targeting an 1,000 mile range with a payload of up to 1,100 kilograms (2,400 lbs)...
Second Hypersonic Flight Of Stratolaunch TA-2 Concluded
Stratolaunch is back in the news with the successful completion of the second hypersonic flight as well as the recovery of the Talon A2 (TA-2) in March 2025. In previous articles you may remember the focus was on TA-1 test vehicle. Now they have moved on to the TA-2 with successful tests completed in the latest round of testing. The latest test has followed the successful first hypersonic flight of Talon-A2 in December 2024 confirming the demonstrated reusability of the vehicle...
Schlieren Photography Reveals Supersonic Transition Of XB-1
This is a unique perspective on the supersonic process via specialized photography in association with NASA. Boom Aerospace the developers of the XB-1 supersonic demonstrator and eventually the Overture supersonic civil aircraft have taken the demonstrator through the sound barrier in their last rounds of testing. Besides knowing that knowledge, and seeing regular images of the demonstrator on the test flights it is difficult to visualize what those supersonic flights look like...
First Flight For Supernal eVTOL
Supernal is another manufacturer that is aiming to bring an eVTOL to market in the future. The company has now made concrete steps towards that future with the first flight of a full-scale technology demonstrator. S-A2 is the model name for the new eVTOL and it made its first flight on March 1, 2025...
EL9 Hybrid Electric Aircraft By Electra
Electra continues to move ahead with the development of their hybrid-electric aircraft called the EL9. The company has its eyes set for certification in 2029. In a world that is trying to produce so many eVTOL aircraft it is refreshing to see a hybrid version and this one is described more as a Blown-Lift aircraft so rather than relying specifically on energy-intensive electric duct fans to vertically lift and then transition into horizontal flight, this aircraft would take off more like a conventional craft but with much shorter distance utilized. The company expects the aircraft to be able to take off and land in as little as 150-feet...
FAA; EASA Certifies Gulfstream G800
Joint certification between the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been granted to the Gulfstream G800 -the latest long-range model from the U.S airframer-. The G800 has exceeded performance objectives and now has an official range of 8,200 nautical miles at around Mach 0.85. This is a 200 nautical mile increase over the airframer's original range estimate...
Pilatus PC-12 PRO Unveiled
The latest iteration of Pilatus's flagship turboprob model - the PC-12- has been unveiled. It is called the PC-12 PRO and is billed as the most advanced single in the industry. At the heart of a number of the upgrades made to the PC-12 for this latest variant surrounds what Pilatus calls ACE (Advanced Cockpit Environment). At the heart of ACE is the Garmin G3000 PRIME Integrated Flight Deck. Fully customized by Pilatus, features such as Pilatus’ proprietary Cursor Control Device, track-based synthetic vision, and exclusive visual customization provide Pilatus pilots with superior solutions for ease of operation in all flight conditions...
E1000 AX Unveiled By Epic Aircraft
The flagship E1000/GX model of Epic Aircraft just became better with the unveiling of the AX version of the aircraft. The E1000 AX now boasts Garmin Autoland and Autothrottle. Additionally, the aircraft comes with more than 25 new features and customers can choose from 8 new colour schemes. An example of the E1000 AX was on display at the recently held 2025 edition of the Sun 'n Fun in Lakeland, Florida...
Collapsed Volocopter Absorbed By Diamond Aircraft
Germany lost two of its eVTOL companies recently after they essentially went out of business - Lilium and Volocopter-. However, recent news suggests that Diamond Aircraft has absorbed Volocopter. More specifically Diamond Aircraft's Chinese owners Wanfeng Aircraft Division of Wanfeng Auto Holding Group have absorbed Volocopter. This will now revive Volocopter's efforts to bring the VoloCity model to market in 2025...
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