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Artist’s concept of the X-66 aircraft that Boeing will produce through NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project. Credit: NASA As NASA and Boeing enter the early stages of producing the X-66, the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050, the team is already picturing what the aircraft will look like soaring above the clouds.…

November 29, 20233 min readVirgin Atlantic flew the first large commercial jet to traverse the Atlantic with 100 percent sustainable aviation fuelBy Brian Dabbs & E&E NewsA Virgin Atlantic Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner as seen on final approach to London Heathrow Airport. CLIMATEWIRE | A Boeing 787 departed London Heathrow on Tuesday with historic cargo: 60 tons of waste fats and low-carbon kerosene to power a Virgin Atlantic flight across the Atlantic Ocean.Roughly seven and a half hours later, the aircraft…

Airbus is looking towards to a greener aviation future, revealing major projects to build hydrogen jet airliners with not only a complete hydrogen-fueled propulsion system, but also a hydrogen Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) to generate electricity onboard.There's often talk about a new hydrogen economy, but there's much more to this than simply swapping out fossil fuels for hydrogen. The two are very different things and require much more than just an engine that's been modified to burn hydrogen. It requires complete systems…

They call themselves the Cygnus Suborbitals, a team of nine undergraduate students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott Campus. In April, the team sent a rocket on a record-breaking flight, pushing the boundaries for student-led projects.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonThe rocket, called Deneb, took off from the Friends of Amateur Rocketry facility in California’s Mojave Desert, clearing the launch tower at 9:42 a.m. local time on April 16, 2023. Deneb, with a total burn time of 26.1 seconds,…

Published By: Paras YadavLast Updated: April 20, 2023, 11:46 ISTImage used for Representation. (Photo: IANS)Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently inaugurated the New Integrated Terminal Building at Chennai Airport which is set up at a cost of Rs 1,260 croreThe US Bangla Airlines in the Chennai-Dhaka sector would be the first airliner to operate from the new integrated terminal building at the airport here, the central government said on Tuesday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently inaugurated the New Integrated…

When you burn as much fuel as an airline does, a single-digit fuel efficiency tweak adds up to massive savings. Take the drag-reducing Aeroshark film Swiss Airlines has stuck all over its 12 Boeing 777s – it delivers a 1% efficiency gain, and as a result, over just 12 aircraft, Swiss expects to use 4,800 tonnes less jet fuel every year, saving nearly half a million dollars per year, per plane at today's prices. That'd be closer to half a billion a year for an operator like American Airlines, closing in on 1,000 planes in…

Artist concept of commercial aircraft families with a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing configuration from the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project. Credit: Boeing<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory Committee…

The first of the next generation of civilian supersonic flight is yet to arrive, but military variants are already being considered. Northrop Grumman and Boom Supersonic signed an agreement at the Farnborough International Air Show to develop special quick-reaction mission variants of Boom’s Overture supersonic aircraft.When the last Concorde supersonic passenger liner made its final flight in 2003, the aerospace sector flew into a technological hiatus not seen since the end of the Apollo missions. As the Anglo-French…

With a refined design announced Tuesday for its Mach 1.7 Overture jet, Boom Supersonic’s dream of reviving exceptionally fast commercial air travel looks a little more real. But this update to Overture, a small airliner in the works since 2016, still leaves a key component undefined.The biggest change in the configuration that Denver-based Boom unveiled at the Farnborough International Airshow outside London is an added engine: Overture now features four instead of the previous design’s three.The new design places each…