Electra

By Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
The agency has awarded study contracts to restart the journey toward sustainable aviation.
Emerging Technologies

By Sean Broderick
The company touts its two-seat demonstrator’s work to validate concepts that are key to planned larger variant.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
The EL9’s debut—at least in concept form—came one year and two days after the company’s EL-2 Goldfinch technology demonstrator made its first flight.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
The company is developing what it calls a Generation-0, near-conformal demonstrator version of its planned Ultra Short nine-passenger hybrid electric STOL.
NBAA

By Graham Warwick
The company is also developing a 640-kW charger for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
he recent decision by U.S. startup Electra.aero to bring on former Boeing executive Marc Allen as new CEO reflects a shift in focus.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The flights were meant to show the aircraft could be used for logistics missions in austere environments.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Boeing’s former head of strategy, Marc Allen, is joining electric aircraft startup Electra.aero as CEO.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The EL-2 Goldfinch is a two-seat technology demonstrator that combines hybrid-electric propulsion with a blown-lift architecture.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
After the initial funding wave, investors grow leery of unfulfilled promises by startups.
Farnborough Airshow

By Graham Warwick
The company’s turboelectric airliner concept would reduce fuel usage, operating costs and contrails.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The startup’s EL-2 Goldfinch test pilot outlines his flight experience with the demonstrator.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Developers of turbo- and diesel-electric generators offer flexibility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Electra.aero has received a $1.9 million U.S. Army contract that funds powered wind tunnel testing of its planned hybrid-electric STOL aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
U.S. startup Surf Air Mobility has committed to take up to 90 hybrid electric short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft from Electra.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Former Uber Elevate leaders build an ecosystem for electric regional aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. regional air carrier JSX has revealed plans for a massive expansion of its public charter jet service.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Elroy Air’s Chaparral, Electra’s Goldfinch and Daher’s EcoPulse take the next step in electric aircraft propulsion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein, Graham Warwick
Electra.aero begins flight-testing its blown-lift distributed electric propulsion ultra-short-takeoff-and-landing technology.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Hybrid eSTOL flies; sea-based high-speed VTOL; China’s electric regional; Piasecki’s tilt-duct ARES revived.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
Startup Electra.aero says aluminum is easier to certify with the FAA, as well as more straightforward to manufacture and repair.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Electra.aero has secured an investment from Statkraft Ventures, a fund that specializes in energy transition and clean technology.
Advanced Air Mobility

By James Pozzi
How Bulgarian charter and ACMI carrier Electra Airways has changed its maintenance strategy over the past few years
Aircraft & Propulsion