by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jan 30, 2023 | Space, Technology
A second Airbus-built Inmarsat-6 geostationary telecommunications satellite (I-6 F2) has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The satellite was carried across the Atlantic Ocean on an Airbus Beluga ahead of it being launched in February 2023, the French...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jan 27, 2023 | Flight, Technology
The US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has asked Boeing to lead the development and test-flying of a “full-scale transonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) demonstrator airplane”. The belief is that the technologies will “inform...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jan 26, 2023 | Inspiration, Technology
Pratt & Whitney and Frontier Airlines have unveiled an aircraft named after Maria Della Posta, president of Pratt & Whitney Canada and the first woman to head a business unit at the engine producer. “Maria the Bald Eagle,” the airline’s second A321neo...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jun 16, 2021 | Flight, Sailing, Technology
Brittany Ferries is exploring the potential for a new high-speed, sustainable and more efficient form of ferry travel called a seaglider. The concept, an all-electric, wing-in-ground effect vehicle (WIG), is under development in the United States through Boston-based...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jun 11, 2021 | Flight, Technology
California-based Archer, a company designing and developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL), debuted its Maker aircraft both live in Los Angeles and streamed to a global audience on the evening of June 10. The in-person event was held at the...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jun 11, 2021 | Editorial Comment, Flight, Technology
Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft have been in development for some years now, indeed Aviation Life has followed the eVTOL story since Issue 1 in 2018. The dream of making vertical flight accessible to all, on demand and carbon free, has taken a...
