Aerospace Manufacturing and Design

Vertical Aerospace has successful wingborne flights

Wingborne testing completed with full-scale VX4 prototype, demonstrating stable and efficient flight on the wing.
Business Wire

Vertical Aerospace Unveils Most Advanced and Powerful Full-scale VX4 Prototype Ahead of Flight Test Programme

Vertical’s most advanced full-scale prototype is key step towards certification of aircraft. 60% of this prototype’s technology is from Vertical’s strategic aerospace partners GKN Aerospace, Hanwha, ...
The Aviationist

Production Prototype of Turkey’s Kizilelma UCAV Makes Maiden Flight With New Engine and Sensors

The new prototype, the third overall and bearing the tail number TC-ÖZB3, showed “significant structural and airframe differences” from the original one, according to the company. The original ...

The Oldest Airbus A380 Still Flying

In January 2005, Airbus drew back the hangar doors and unveiled the completed aircraft to the world and a crowd of 5,000 ...
ExtremeTech

Vertical Aerospace's First eVTOL Prototype Flight Is a Success

Vertical Aerospace has taken a major step toward commercializing its VX4 winged eVTOL, or electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Last Thursday, the electric aviation startup's prototype ...
Inside Defense

Raytheon completes review of new F/A-18 electronic warfare prototype ahead of government testing

Raytheon has completed a major review of a new Advanced Electronic Warfare prototype for the Navy's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, that comes as the Navy prepares to test prototype systems in fiscal year ...
Flying

Boeing Completes First Test of Autonomous eVTOL Air-Taxi Prototype

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences conducted the first test flight of its all-electric autonomous passenger air vehicle. The unpiloted vehicle took off vertically, hovered for a few seconds, and ...
New Atlas

Video: XB-1 supersonic prototype makes second flight

Boom Supersonic has completed the second test flight of its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator. On August 26, 2024, the prototype aircraft took off with Chief Test Pilot Tristan Brandenburg at the controls ...
Observer

From Hops to Orbit: A Fiery History of SpaceX’s Starship Program

Starship takes off for its eighth flight on March 6 at its test site in Boca Chica, Texas. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images On June 19, a Starship prototype exploded on the launch pad at SpaceX’s ...
KTLA

Radian Aerospace Reveals First Prototype Flight Vehicle, Completes Initial Round of Taxi Tests

Ground tests mark a key milestone in Radian's development of the world's first fully reusable spaceplane, paving the way for the next phase of testing ABU DHABI, UAE and SEATTLE, Sept. 25, 2024 ...
CNN

SpaceX’s troubled Starship prototype pulls off successful flight after months of explosive mishaps

• SpaceX launched the 10th test flight of its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket booster tonight. Both achieved successful splashdowns on opposite sides of the world during the roughly ...