The war in Iran continues to ratchet up fuel prices, and that doesn’t just make it more expensive to drive – it’s getting more expensive to fly, too. What many don’t realize is that a significant share of an airline’s operating costs are tied to ground…
The defense aviation startup is coming off two successful flight demonstrations, and with the next one, it’s aiming to go supersonic.
KC Guidry usually gets to the airport two hours before a flight to give herself enough time to get through security. But she knew her flight on the morning of Monday, March 23, out of Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport was going to be anything but routine. “I heard the lines were long through TikTok […]
He told the Wall Street Journal he thinks autonomous planes will be “10 times harder than Nikola ever was.”
It was a little after 1PM on Friday, February 28th, and Samantha Lujano was about to board her flight from Dubai to Colombo, Sri Lanka, when the drone attacks began. She had already received her boarding pass and gone through customs. Her flight was at the gate and her bags were loaded. She was simply […]
Look at the two air taxi designs above. Look similar? The company that designed the one on the left sure thinks so, which is why it’s accusing the firm that designed the one on the right of patent infringement. On Monday, Archer Aviation filed a complaint in the US District Court Eastern District of Texas […]
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For the first time, a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III has airlifted a complete, 5 MW nuclear reactor from March Air Reserve Base in California to Hill Air Force Base in Utah for assembly and operation, signaling a new era of deployable energy and log…
The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted its temporary closure to the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas, after originally saying that all flights in and out of the airport would be grounded for 10 days. No explanation for the closure was given, beyond a vague reference to “Special Security Reasons.” CBS News reported […]
Skyrsye, now valued at $1.15 billion, is pushing to get FAA certification for its universal operating system for flight.
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Just days after eVTOL startup Eve Air Mobility published video of its prototype’s maiden hover flight, the company announced $150 million in new financing to continue developing its vision of the future of flight.
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