Rolls-Royce specialists together with engineers from other organizations will build an electric aircraft that can reach speeds of over 480 km/h. The d...
Virgin Galactic made successful test flight in the mesosphere
The manned suborbital spacecraft Unity made another successful test flight, reaching an altitude of more than 52 km in the mesosphere above the Earth’...
China tests aircraft with technology of active control of turbulence
China independently developed an aircraft with active control technology and a wingspan of 3.50 m. The first flight tests of the aircraft in a turbule...
Airbus opens launch pad for high altitude pseudo-satellite Zephyr
Airbus Defense and Space announced the opening of the first air base for the High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) Zephyr S in the town of Wyndham (We...
Boeing assembled the first test 777X aircraft
Boeing assembled the main sections of the fuselage of the first 777X, the first flight of which will take place in 2019. In production, this stage is ...
Virgin Orbit conducted the first flight tests of a modified LauncherOne Boeing 747 aircraft
The American company Virgin Orbit conducted the first flight tests of a modified Boeing 747-400 aircraft with LauncherOne, which will be used to put s...
Russian AeroHydrodynamic Institute close to creating prototype of a supersonic passenger aircraft
The creation of the first prototype of a supersonic passenger aircraft is expected in 2-3 years. This was stated by Kirill Sypalo, the general directo...
Prototype of the hypersonic aircraft HEXAFLY-INT will be tested in 2020
The French Aerospace Research Center works concept of the hypersonic passenger plane HEXAFLY-INT and already started the early laboratory testing of s...
Boeing started building the first flight model of the space drone Phantom Express
The American aircraft manufacturing concern Boeing started building the first flight model of a promising space drone Phantom Express, which is being ...
Indian manufacturer tests own corkscrew training aircraft
Indian aircraft manufacturer Hindustan Aeronautics Limited started advanced testing of its HTT-40 training aircraft. During these tests, the aircraft ...