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Boeing will soon have a new captain in charge of piloting the company forward. The aircraft maker has announced that its current CEO, Dave Calhoun, will leave his role at…

Planes with flapping wings sound more anime than aerospace, but the world’s largest airframers on both sides of the Atlantic are expediting prototypes that could shape the next generation of…

Boom Aviation’s XB-1 took a giant step forward in its mission to become the third civilian-built supersonic jet today when it completed a roughly 12-minute sub-sonic test flight in the…

SpaceX has taken one giant leap in its journey to the moon. The company’s Starship craft successfully launched Thursday morning, traveling more than halfway around the world before burning up…

Forget the freeze-dried space meals and Tang. One of the first luxury-space tourism companies is hosting a meal aboard in the stratosphere that is priced at $495,000 each. Now, they…

Published on March 12, 2024 Miami Seaplanes Los Cabos, Hawaii, St. Barts, and Jamaica all have their share of five-star resorts and private airports. What better combination than a private…

Of all the emerging forms of aviation propulsion, hydrogen seems the least likely to be an early adopter. But Swiss-based Sirius has announced plans to start flight tests of a…

The first century of aviation design didn’t give trendspotters much to get excited about, with the vast majority of production aircraft remaining little more than tubes with wings attached. Later,…

Published on March 7, 2024 Pilatus The utilitarian turboprop has long been in the shadow of smaller business jets, seen largely as a poor cousin to the faster, glitzier jets.…

A jet engine with no moving parts. Sounds like something out of Dune. But a Baltimore start-up successfully flight-tested a scaled version to prove that the concept worked. Wave Engine…