Future Flight
RUSSIA's SUPERSONIC AIRLINER TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATOR PRODUCTION IN 2023 TO ENTER
Reports in Russian State media indicate that a technology demonstrator for an upcoming Russian supersonic passenger aircraft will enter production in 2023. It will be constructed at Chaplygin Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Aviation (SibNIA), using the MiG-29 fighter jet as a basis.
2 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
HOW DO DELIVERY DRONES DELIVER?
Drop, lower or land the delivery drone industry has seemed to settle down to three ways of doing business, all of which do just what helicopters do but are smaller. Different ways that delivery drones work have advantages and disadvantages.
2 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
CAR MAKER STELLANTIS WILL MASS PRODUCE ARCHER'S MIDNIGH EVTOL AIR TAXI
Under a new arrangement announced early in January, car maker Stellantis is to produce Archer Aviation's four-passenger eVTOL aircraft. Stellantis has also agreed to provide Archer with a further $150 million in equity capital in 2023 and 2024 in a move that significantly deepens a relationship with the Californiabased start-up that began in 2020.
3 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
IATA CALLS FOR INCREASE IN SAF INCENTIVES
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates that Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production will reach at least 300 million litres in 2023, a 200 percent increase on 2021 production of 100 million litres.
2 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
BLUEFLITE PATENTS eVTOL AIRCRAFT DESIGN
Late in 2022 Blueflite's patent for its 'advanced logistics drone platform' was accepted by the US Patent and Trademark Office, covering the 'revolutionary' design of the delivery UAV.
1 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
PIPER AND CAE PARTNER TO ELECTRIFY PA-28-180
The Centre Technologique en Aérospatiale (CTA), a Canadian technological concern dedicated to the application of aerospace technologies in cooperation with the École Nationale d'Aérotechnique (ÉNA) of Cégep Édouard-Montpetit, the largest college-level institution for aviation technology in North America, are making ready to convert a Piper Archer aircraft to electric power.
1 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
EMBRAER UPDATES ENERGIA CONCEPTS
Embraer announced plans to further explore two concepts for its Energia project, the Energia Hybrid Electric and Energia H2 Fuel Cell aircraft. 19- and 30-seat variants being considered for both models, which debuted last year as nine- and 19-seaters respectively.
1 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
AURA AERO SELLS ELECTRIC GLIDER TOW PLANE
French Sport plane manufacturer Aura Aero has obtained the approval of the French Gliding Federation (Fédération Française de Vol en Planeur, or the FFVP), with their purchase of an electric Integral.
3 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGHLIGHTS IN evtol Aircraft Highlights from 2022
Last year was eventful for leading eVTOL developers so this feature is taking a look back at the progress some of the major players have made in the past 12 months.
5 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
BOOM Supersonic FINDS PILOT FLIGH training and EDUCATION partners
Boom Supersonic will be partnering with FlightSafety International (FSI) to train pilots, mechanics and cabin crew for its upcoming Overture aircraft. Together, the two companies, who are promising to bring back supersonic travel, will cooperate and develop training programmes and curriculums for Overture crews.
2 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
NASA CONSIDERS SOLICITING SPACEX'S ASSISTANCE
After MS-22, a Russian Soyuz capsule docked to the ISS, sprung a coolant leak on 14 December 2022, the safety of crew-members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been foremost on the minds of NASA and Roscosmos personnel, thereby calling into question the craft's space worthiness.
2 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
US NAVY TO FLY TWO XQ-58A
Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems Inc., Sacramento, California, has been awarded a $15,515,343 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to procure and deliver a quantity of two XQ-58A unmanned aerial systems (UAS) with sensor and weapon system payloads to accomplish the penetrating affordable autonomous collaborative killer.
2 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
COALITION FORMED TO DEVELOP HYBRID-ELECTRIC TURBOFAN TECHNOLOGY
A group of aerospace technology companies have announced the formation of a collaborative consortium to develop hybridelectric and water-enhanced turbofan technology for future aircraft propulsion systems, supported by the European Union Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking (Clean Aviation).
3 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
REMOTE CARRIER DEMONSTRATOR RELEASED AND OPERATED FROM FLYING A400M FOR THE FIRST TIME
Germany's Bundeswehr, Airbus, the German Aerospace Center DLR and German companies SFL and Geradts have jointly carried out the world's first successful launch and operation of a remote carrier flight test demonstrator from a flying A400M.
1 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
HERMEUS GIVES SNEAK PEEK OF HYPERSONIC UNCREWED DARKHORSE
After its 'State of the Company' event, Hermeus shared a sneak peek of the Darkhorse. This uncrewed aerial system will service defence and intelligence customers. The company said this new aircraft will be capable of sustained hypersonic flight and have mission flexibility.
1 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
VIRGIN ATLANTIC TO OPERATE FIRST 'NET ZERO' TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT
Virgin Atlantic is preparing to conduct the first flight from London to New York using a Boeing 787 aircraft powered solely by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
2 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
Future Flight
COLLINS AEROSPACE TO DEVELOP NEW NASA SPACE-SUITS
NASA has awarded a delivery order contract to Collins Aerospace to produce a spacewalking system, read space-suit for potential use outside the International Space Station.
2 min |
December 2022 / January 2023
African Pilot
AIR ARABIA's GROWING CONSTELLATION OF AIRLINES IS ABOUT TO BECOME LARGER
The Middle East is one of the main players in global commercial aviation, with the region's three major full-service carriers, the so-called 'MEB3', Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways, garnering a great deal of attention.
3 min |
January 2023
African Pilot
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR COMMERCIAL AIRLINE AVIATION?
As the pandemic seemed to end, or at least the world found a way to live with the virus, it looked like the aviation industry had managed to reach the light at the end of the tunnel.
7 min |
January 2023
African Pilot
WHEN THE CHALLENGE IS MET
On 2 November 2021 at 09h25Z, a pilot and a passenger on-board a Bell 206L helicopter with registration ZS-HDX were engaged in a repositioning flight operation from Rand Airport (FAGM) in Gauteng province to Buffels Mine near Klerksdorp in the North West province.
8 min |
January 2023
African Pilot
AERO CLUB OF SOUTH AFRICA AWARDS 2022
Due to my timeshare commitment at Mabula at this time of the year, I was not in a position to attend the AeCSA awards on Saturday 26 November. Like last year the awards ceremony was held at Rand airport in the beautifully decorated Springbok Flying Safaris hangar belonging to Captain Flippie Vermeulen and his family.
10+ min |
January 2023
African Pilot
NAMESTO REMEMBER Amy Johnson (1903-1941) was a pioneering British aviator
\"The silence,\" she wrote in an article on gliding, \"broken only by the soft swish of the wind in my hair, is rapture after the deafening roar to which I have been accustomed for so many years.\"
6 min |
January 2023
African Pilot
PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and commonly known as Pan Am, was an American airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for much of the 20th century. It was the first airline to fly worldwide and pioneered numerous innovations of the modern airline industry such as jumbo jets, and computerised reservation systems. Until its dissolution in 1991, Pan Am 'epitomised the luxury and glamour of intercontinental travel' and it remains a cultural icon of the 20th century, identified by its blue globe logo ('The Blue Meatball') the use of the word 'Clipper' in its aircraft names and call signs and the white uniform caps of its pilots.
10 min |
January 2023
African Pilot
DOT's ICAD AIRSHOW AND AVIATION YOUTH DEVELOPMENT EVENT AT HEIDELBERG
Our team of photographers, Charlie and Fiona Hugo, Paul Ludick, Christine and I all attended the Department of Transport's (DoT) and South African Civil Aviation's (SACAA) International Civil Aviation Day (ICAD) at the Heidelberg airfield on Saturday 3 December 2022.
4 min |
January 2023
African Pilot
HUMAN FACTORS: WHOSE FAULT, REALLY?
It was a pretty little thing, the Cherokee. Liquidly gloss white, with two-toned red stripes on the wings, fuselage and tail its gear wrapped in wheel pants. It had been owned by one man for the previous 20 years without incident and yet, nine months after its sale to a new owner, the Cherokee was a crumpled pile of junk lying in a ditch off the end of Runway 24 at Oswego County Airport (KFZY) in Fulton, New York.
5 min |
January 2023
African Pilot
TAMARACK AND PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS EXPLORING A320 UPGRADES
Founded to provide advancements in aerospace efficiency technology, Sandpoint, Idaho-based Tamarack Aerospace Group is currently engaged in serious and confidential talks with single-aisle aircraft manufacturing organizations, carriers, lessors and service organisations at the Middle East & North Africa Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) show.
2 min |
January 2023
African Pilot
BOMBARDIER TO BEGIN MODIFYING GLOBAL 6000 FOR GERMAN MILITARY
Bombardier Defence celebrated the arrival of a Global 6000 aircraft in Wichita, Kansas as part of the next phase of the company's contract to support Lufthansa Technik's participation in the German armed forces' Hensoldt-led Pegasus programme. Since the aircraft's 2020 selection to the programme, Bombardier has delivered three Global 6000 jets to Lufthansa Technik.
2 min |
January 2023
African Pilot
LUXAVIATION
There are several stages involved in purchasing an aircraft. Though the potential gravity of each step can make the process appear daunting, buying or selling an aeroplane does not have to be complex.
1 min |
January 2023
African Pilot
EXERCISE VUK'UHLOME 2022 LOHATLA 2022
The South African Defence Force (SANDF) has a very privileged position within the worlds military. The large expanse of South Africa allows our military to have huge training bases where large scale exercises and testing of military doctrine can be tried, tested, reevaluated and honed to perfection. There are ten such bases worldwide and the SANDF's Lohatla Combat Training Centre (CTC) in the Northern Cape is one of two such in the Southern Hemisphere.
2 min |
January 2023
African Pilot
BEST OF THE BEST FRANK WHITTLE INVENTOR OF THE JET ENGINE
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, FRAES was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with inventing the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention which was technically unfeasible at the time. Whittle's jet engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germany's Hans von Ohain, who designed the first-to-fly (but never operational) turbojet engine.
8 min |