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RTX Joins Boeing On NASA X-66A TTBW Project
The development of the X-66A is gathering steam as more essential partners join the project. Boeing has selected RTX as a collaborator of the X-66A Transonic Truss-Brace Wing demonstrator project. Boeing's X-66A program is zeroed in on the development of the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) concept. In the future this technology could lead to significant improvements in fuel efficiency and reduced emissions for next generation single-aisle aircraft on the horizon...
VoltAero Breaks Ground On Massive Final Assembly Plant
VoltAero is pleased to announce that construction has started on their final assembly plant for its Cassio-family of electric-hybrid aircraft. This is an important step to allowing the company to transition from flight testing and development to scaling-up to fulfil current and future orders for the aircraft family...
Cirrus Aircraft Innovation Center Opens In Duluth
Cirrus Aircraft has officially opened its brand new Innovation Center in Duluth at the Duluth International Airport (KDLH) in Minnesota. The Innovation Center is dedicated to the development of the next-generation innovation that supports Cirrus Aircraft’s products and services while preserving the mission they serve and making personal aviation more approachable. Cirrus Aircraft has provided significant investment to transform the 189,000-square-foot building on 39 acres into a state-of-the-art Innovation Center...
Beta Technologies Successfully Flies eCTOL from NY to YUL
Beta Technologies Electric Conventional Take Off and Landing Alia aircraft successfully landed in Montreal on the 27th of September. This is important because it marks the first time that a fully-electric aircraft landed at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (CYUL) and Montreal entirely. The aircraft flew 55 miles from Plattsburgh International Airport (KPBG) in New York making the trip in 30 minutes. The flight involved traveling through the busy airspace of a Class B airport, which typically sees up to an average of 53,000 passengers per day...
Surf Air Mobility Intent On Electrifying New Caravan EX Order
An interesting development has occurred regarding the Cessna Grand Caravan EX that company Surf Air Mobility ordered. A company ordering planes isn't big news however, it is what Surf Air Mobility plans to do with them after they receive them into their fleet. The company has paid the deposit for the first 20 Grand Caravan EX turboprop singles and expects to start to take delivery in the first half of 2024...
Garmin G5000 Carded For Citation XLS+; XLS Gen 2
Today, Textron Aviation announced good news for owners and operators of the Citation XLS+ and XLS Gen 2. These aircraft will now have the ability to be upgraded with the Garmin G5000 suite in the cockpit. Federal Aviation Administration Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for this is pending and expected to be handed down in the first half of 2024. The upgraded avionics suite will be available for installation at Textron Aviation Service Centers once the STC has been granted...
Record Textron Aviation Order From NetJets
Textron Aviation has announced that it signed a record-deal with fractional-ownership powerhouse NetJets. NetJets are accustomed to making massive orders typically for 100 to 150 planes or more at a time. However, the company has struck a deal with Textron Aviation for as many as 1,500 jets. Of course the delivery time frame will be long, 15 or more years to satisfy. What aircraft NetJets are acquiring from Textron? More Citation Latitudes, Longitudes and the brand new Citation Ascend...
McCauley Propeller C780 Available For King Air 300 Series
Beechcraft King Air 300 series now has an added boost from the new propeller that McCauley Propeller Systems has for this category aircraft. The C780 propeller is for the Beechcraft King Air B300 series and the first retrofit was already recently done and aircraft returned to service. The worked happened at Textron Aviation's Tampa Service Center...
World's First Piloted Hydrogen-Electric Flight
H2FLY has completed the world's first piloted Hydrogen-electric flight. While there are other players in relation to hydrogen-electric development most of these exploits are either ground-related testing or autonomous testing of the vehicle. H2FLY actually had a piloted vehicle with liquid hydrogen fuel in the electric aircraft. A number of flights were done piloting a demonstrator HY4 aircraft that was fitted with hydrogen-electric fuel cell propulsion...
RR Pearl 700 Certified By FAA
The Gulfstream G700 is anticipated to to be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the fourth quarter of this year. The powerplant powering the G700 had yet to be given full approval by the American regulatory body up until recently. The FAA has now given approval for the Rolls Royce Pearl 700 engine that powers the G700 and also the upcoming G800! Noteworthy is that this same engine was certified by EASA a year ago in September 2022. The BR700-730B2-14 is an advancement on the previous BR725 variant that powers the Gulfstream G650/ER...
Comfort; Speed; Range Enhanced On G700
After excessive testing of the Gulfstream G700, the airframer today has announced that it has increased the overall performance of this model. The range, speed and comfort for passengers in the cabin have all been enhanced. The G700 already had impressive figures but in an industry where the competition at the top is unrelenting, airframers have to constantly keep their class-leading products fully-desirable. In recent years, Gulfstream has been battling Bombardier for the top of the long-range, high-speed business class segment and the Global 7500 has taken over from the G650ER...
Preparation For First XB-1 Test Flight Advances
The last supersonic related aircraft published by JF was an article on the latest NASA X-59 QueSST aircraft, which at the time was moving towards ground testing... https://www.jetforums.net/threads/news-nasa-x-59-moves-towards-ground-testing.4686/#post-29151 . BOOM supersonic is also working on a fly-fast project but for the commercial market. BOOM supersonic is presently advancing its way towards the first flight of the XB-1 which is the scaled-down test demonstrator of what eventually will become the Overture supersonic jet...
EHang Likely To Be First In The World To Certify
The way the process is currently shaping-up the world's first eVTOL maker to be able to certify an autonomous eVTOL may not be in the West. It may well be in China. Chinese eVTOL manufacturer EHang could well be the first to certify its EH216-S two-seater. The craft will be autonomous (no pilot) carrying two passengers on short tourism related flights. These are marked differences between the EHang EH216-S and its western competition. It is pilotless and being used for very short tourism flights instead of the air taxi market...
Dual (FAA; EASA) Approvals For Falcon 6X
Dassault Aircraft finally receives Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for their new Falcon 6X. The simultaneous approvals were awarded on August 22nd 2023 and now permits the French airframer to commence deliveries to their international customers. The first delivery is in final works and expected to happen momentarily...
Electric 'Microliner' To Fly By 2030
Start-up Vaeridion is expected to bring a 9-passenger all-electric aircraft to market by 2030. The latest news is that they have joined forces with charter group ASL to help make the 2030 timeline feasible. Vaeridion, which is based in Germany, has not released alot of information on the new passenger electric aircraft but renders have been released giving a glimpse at the design logic...
TTBW Project Moves Ahead To Next Phase
At the start of the year JF wrote an article on a project that Boeing is involved in concerning a new design to an aircraft that is meant for efficiency. It is called the The Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) and it is a NASA project that Boeing has taken the lead on. There is some movement forward on this new project and its experimental development. Under development it will be known as the X-66A and this is NASA's first experimental plane focused on helping the U.S...
Avantto; Epic Aircraft Sign Major Order For E1000 GX
Epic Aircraft is in the news recently because of a new relationship formed with Avantto. Avantto is one of the largest operators in the private aviation market in Latin America and a leading company in fractional ownership of jets and helicopters. This is good news for Epic Aircraft as this means a large order is in the works for them for the latest iteration of their E1000 turboprop single, the E1000 GX...
World's First High Performance Aviation Fuel Cell Compressor
"Aviation sustainability" is the current buzz phase but some manufacturers, airframers and developers are moving full-steam ahead with projects that positively affect the direction that sustainability will be going in the next few years. One such endeavour is the development of hydrogen-electric power generation for aviation...
First Tourism Space Flight By Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is back in the news as it is taking on its next mission which is its first tourism flight to 'space' with private passengers today. The idea of space tourism for Virgin Galactic has been long in the making. Galactic 02 will take three passengers, a mother and daughter duo and an Olympian to the edge of space. The definition of the entry into space has some grey-area but internationally, the boundary between Earth's outer atmosphere and space is called the Karman line which sits 62 miles above sea level...
Eviation Appoints TLG Aerospace on Alice Aircraft
Eviation has now appointed TLG Aerospace for the development of the Production Configuration of Alice Aircraft. For those who do not know about Eviation Aircraft... it is a manufacturer of all-electric aircraft. They have announced the appointment of TLG Aerospace, a Seattle-based aerospace engineering company, for the design of the production configuration of the Alice commuter plane...
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