AFWerx

By Graham Warwick
Funding to help modify a glider to flight test ultraquiet, electric-ducted fans has been received by Whisper Aero .
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Multi-feedstock SAF production tested; Australian e-aircraft programs advance; ZeroAvia to study large hydrogen UAS; Vertiport design mitigates eVTOL downwash.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
The communications satellite has L-band and Ka-band payloads.
Satellites

By Ben Goldstein
The equity round was led by major institutional investors including Blackrock.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Quantum computing challenge winners; Electric aircraft familiarization; Large cargo eVTOL; Zero-emission test arena.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
AFWERX does not have any specific requirements, a program of record, or impending contracts for hybrid eVTOLs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Megawatt hybrid power for U.S. Army, Terrain fingerprints for navigation, Australian eVTOL flies and H3’s 400-kW fuel cell.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
Norris Tie launched the Torrance, California-based company in 2019 with seed financing from Y Combinator on a proposal to build a supersonic airliner.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The report was completed in July 2022 but not released publicly until Sept. 30.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The JA1 is a single-person tailsitting electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
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
Piasecki Aircraft has conducted the first tethered hover flights of the Ares tilt-duct vertical-takeoff-and-landing demonstrator.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Testing contrail avoidance; Spectrum for UAS control; Electrifying the King Air; Longer-lived batteries.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Founded in 2017, Daytona Beach, Florida-based VerdeGo is already working to certify the 185-kW VH-3.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Ampaire has completed the critical design review for conversion of the Beechcraft King Air to hybrid-electric propulsion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
A Boeing F-15 could become the first U.S. Air Force aircraft to experiment with a podded, boom-equipped air-to-air refueling system after AFWerx contract awards.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Archer appears to be on track to roll out its first conforming Midnight air taxi during the fourth quarter.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The quantum-sensor magnetic navigation system was flight-tested on several Boeing C-17s, performing consistently.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Power-dense motors; controls from high flyers; rechargeable thermal battery; in-space refueling port.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Wright Electric has received funding from the U.S. Air Force’s AFWerx innovation unit to develop high-power rechargeable thermal batteries.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
When a potential adversary’s radar picks up numerous cruise missiles, each target needs to be tracked and treated as a threat. The targets need “Respect.”
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
DIU announced June 3 that it has awarded contracts to Anduril, Integrated Solutions for Systems Inc., Leidos Dynetics and Zone 5 Technologies.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation has rolled the second production prototype electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi off its pilot line in Marina, California.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Startup VerdeGo Aero has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract to advance development of a turbine-based hybrid-electric powerplant.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Umbra Space is the latest commercial space company to show that bistatic coupling of two radar satellites could be used to implement moving target indication.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare