Having unveiled its first flight-test prototype, Heart Aerospace is now working to get the HX-1 airborne next year while also overcoming the multiple engineering and production challenges on the path to developing its ES-30, a hybrid-electric airliner targeted for service-entry by the end of this decade.
Airbus has disclosed that a private customer ordered three A350-900s as well as three A320neos during August. The airframer has not identified the operator that signed for the six aircraft, but revealed the 21 August agreement in its latest backlog figures. Airbus formally listed orders for 40 other aircraft, including ...
An eventual successor to current regional turboprops could feature a strut-braced, high-aspect-ratio composite wing with morphing leading and trailing edges, depending on the outcome of an ongoing research and technology project.