2+ week, 5+ day ago   (623+ words) Collins Aerospace (a subsidiary of RTX) has completed altitude testing of its Enhanced Power and Cooling System (EPACS), bringing one potential solution to the F-35’s increasingly urgent power and thermal management problem closer to maturity. The F-35’s existing power…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1177+ words) Fifteen seconds. No special tools. And a piece of electronics barely bigger than a coin. That was enough for security researchers to reach a maintenance connection on a Boeing 737 and show how a tiny device planted there could interfere with…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (773+ words) Archer Aviation, the company behind the Midnight eVTOL, says its AI-powered aviation foundation model, ZEE, has demonstrated the ability to predict aircraft movements across airport surfaces several minutes into the future. The technology is being developed as a decision-support tool…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (529+ words) Yesterday, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works reported that its highly modified F-16 testbed, the X-62 Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft (VISTA), executed 27 AI-controlled intercepts. Skunk Works defined the objective of the tests as “demonstrate that the X-62 and its integrated autonomy…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (226+ words) Space is no longer a niche corner of the aerospace sector – it’s one of its fastest-growing sectors, as Avantika Gupta, Principal, Type One Ventures, explains.… Speaking to Aerospace Global News during Farnborough International Airshow this year, Avantika Gupta explained where…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (312+ words) With Artificial Intelligence (AI) a hot topic at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow, few companies understand what’s at stake as well as Cyient. Karapattu Arunachalam Prabhakaran explains why trust is the real barrier to adoption, not the technology itself. “We…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (544+ words) Yesterday, the drone maker TEKEVER unveiled its new AR6 family of autonomous heavy-lift electric quadcopter drones at the Farnborough International Airshow in the latest expansion of its drone lineup. The new TEKEVER AR6 heavy-lift drone In a statement, TEKEVER wrote that it…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (393+ words) Speaking to Aerospace Global News at the Farnborough International Airshow, John Turnbull of Dassault Systèmes said companies had spent the past two to three years exploring the potential of AI. Attention is now shifting towards how the technology can be…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (851+ words) Boeing-owned advanced air mobility developer Wisk Aero has demonstrated how a single ground-based supervisor could simultaneously oversee three autonomous air taxis operating in controlled airspace. The 1:3 supervisor-to-aircraft ratio was tested during a series of high-workload simulations conducted with NASA in…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (970+ words) Buying a new airliner today is a little like buying a smartphone that can never receive any further software updates. Once an aircraft enters service, adding new digital functions is rarely as simple as downloading fresh software. Engineers often have…...