It's all about cost savings. By eliminating the weight of the windows and designing a more aerodynamic fuselage, aircraft can ...

Despite the rapid advancements in other technological sectors, commercial aircraft have remained fundamentally unchanged for decades. While electric vehicles are revolutionizing ground transportation, ...

Food scraps contain organic compounds that can be used in some surprising ways. One person’s trash is another person’s… jet fuel? Strange as it might sound, researchers at the University of Illinois ...

TORONTO, June 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New Horizon Aircraft (HOVR), doing business as Horizon Aircraft (“Horizon Aircraft” or the “Company”), an advanced aerospace engineering company and ...

More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won’t feel a thing, thanks to lightning protection measures that are embedded ...

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

In the next few decades, the standard passenger aircraft will look radically different, according to the head of one of the world’s largest plane manufacturers. Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said in a ...

ATR is aiming to fly a hybrid-electric regional aircraft by the end of this decade, leading two of the 12 projects newly granted Clean Aviation funding under the latest financing round for ...

Could the airplanes of the future change their wing shape, or work like a giant battery hurtling through the sky? Maybe, if NASA has its way. Those are just two of the ideas NASA is exploring to see ...