The USAF is looking at updated legacy systems, next-generation manned systems, and futurist autonomous systems for its future ...

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Despite the rapid advancements in other technological sectors, commercial aircraft have remained fundamentally unchanged for decades. While electric vehicles are revolutionizing ground transportation, ...

More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won't feel a thing, thanks to lightning protection measures that are embedded ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers would be named after former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. "Each knows firsthand the weight ...

In the next few decades, the standard passenger aircraft will look radically different, according to the head of one of the world’s largest plane manufacturers. Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said in a ...

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

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WASHINGTON/CHICAGO/SEATTLE >> Alaska Airlines said today it will purchase 110 new Boeing aircraft — the largest single order in the carrier’s history — as part of an aggressive expansion and fleet ...

Electra intends to start flying a full-scale prototype of the nine-passenger, hybrid-electric EL9 Ultra Short airplane in 2027 as it works towards type certification under existing FAA Part 23 rules.