Dominic Perry

Overdue maiden sortie for latest prototype will accelerate flight-test campaign. UK electric air taxi developer Vertical Aerospace has finally flown the third and final prototype of its VX4 aircraft as it looks to expand its flight-test campaign. Taking place at the company’s flight-test centre at Kemble airfield in southwest England on 5 June, the sortie…

Industry interest is likely to centre on collapsed developer’s thermal management technology and patent portfolio. An undisclosed buyer has snapped up the intellectual property of UK hypersonic propulsion developer Reaction Engines, the company’s administrators have disclosed. Reaction collapsed in October 2024 and insolvency specialists from PwC were appointed to handle the firm’s winding up and…

Airframer continues to analyse options for notional -500 variant but pledges to retain Pratt & Whitney as programme's sole engine supplier.

Investigations are under way in Saudi Arabia after the fatal crash of a Leonardo Helicopters AW139 belonging to state-owned oil and gas producer Saudi Aramco.

Australian start-up Mako has raised $20 million in Series A funding to accelerate the commercial roll-out of its Flightfilm drag-reduction coating, initially on the Airbus A320.

Airbus has quietly ceased offering the A319neo to airline customers following continued underwhelming sales of the smallest remaining member of its original narrowbody family.

GE Aerospace has highlighted the growing involvement of UK subsidiary Dowty in the CFM International RISE open-fan technology demonstrator programme, with the propeller maker's design and industrial know-how seen as increasingly critical to the effort.

Milestone for eVTOL platform slips into 2029 under latest programme re-baselining. Vertical Aerospace has confirmed a fresh schedule slippage for its Valo electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, with certification now delayed until 2029. Under previous plans, disclosed in November 2024, Vertical had pushed the milestone from 2026 until 2028 – itself a delay…

Capture of Brazilian engineering specialist will give UAE-based group added impetus in UAV development. UAE state-owned defence and technology company EDGE has continued its international expansion with the acquisition of Brazilian aerospace and engineering company Akaer. Based in Sao Jose dos Campos, Akaer is a supplier of engineering services to multiple aerospace OEMs and tier…

Trials took place at The Grid, the company’s advanced electric power systems facility in Rockford, Illinois. Collins Aerospace has completed integrated lab testing for the MTU Aero Engines-led Clean Aviation SWITCH project at The Grid, its advanced electric power systems facility in Rockford, Illinois. Following the tests, the hybrid-electric subsystems – which successfully operated with…