By Hanneke Weitering • AIN Science & Technology Editor  October 7 For two years, Heart Aerospace promoted one hybrid-electric airliner concept while ...

By Charlotte Bailey • AIN Staff Writer  October 1, 2026 Deutsche Aircraft this week opened the final assembly line at Leipzig Halle Airport in northeast ...

By Howard Hardee and Charles Alcock  September 29, 2026  The first flight of the Airbus A350 Freighter on September 29 signified more than the European ...

By Howard Hardee • Editor September 28, 2026 Subscription Required The trickle of oil escaping from the Strait of Hormuz and associated surge in jet fuel prices are unwelcome developments for all ...

By Karl Sinclair • Contributing Writer September 28, 2026 Subscription Required  Buckle up, folks. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Soaring fuel costs are squeezing already-thin airline margins, and the ...

By Bjorn Fehrm • Aerospace Analyst September 24, 2026 Subscription Required  Jet fuel prices have doubled since January, and analysts forecast we might not have seen the peak yet (Figure 1). The ...

New air traffic control automation increases controller workload before it reduces it, often for years. Having lived the last transition, I believe the FAA should judge CAP bidders not only on ...

The Bargaining Unit Councils (BUCs) of SPEEA, the union representing Boeing’s engineers and technicians, recommended membership approval of two contracts offered by Boeing. The first contracts were ...

Korean Air will wait until the early 2030s for the first aircraft from its latest 103-aircraft Boeing order. The long lead time is not incidental to the deal. In fact, it is one of the reasons the ...

Union members’ reaction to the second Tentative Agreement (TA) between SPEEA and Boeing is mixed on social media. SPEEA is the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, representing ...

Recent signs suggest reintegration of Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas may not be proceeding in the smooth, orderly fashion that Boeing had hoped for. At least, not in the financial sense. Recall ...

Last week we looked at dry fiber layup methods that use a binder to tack fabrics or the tape in an AFP/ATL system to the previous ply, creating a porous but rigid fiber preform. The binder is a ...