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Year in Review

The 2024 Year in Review

Our annual roundup of the year's biggest aerospace achievements and milestones, described by AIAA's technical and integration and outreach committees.

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AeroPuzzler

ENCORE: Does mass matter to measure mass?

January 2025

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News

NASA concludes initial phase of video archive project for air taxis

By Paul Brinkmann

December 16, 2024

Helicopter flights were a step toward training autonomous flight software to navigate real-world scenarios

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Editor's Notebook

Two possible space strategies for the Trump administration

By Ben Iannotta

December 2024

The year

December 2024 Issue

December 2024 All Issues

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Bulletin

December 2024 AIAA Bulletin

December 2024

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Flight Path

Welcoming Clay Mowry

By AIAA Communications

December 2024

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Letters to the Editor

Missing the point of ISS

December 2024

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Jahniverse

Why Starlink must be reined in

By Moriba Jah

December 2024

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Advanced air mobility

Air taxi makers: FAA has given us what we need

By Paul Brinkmann

November 1, 2024

Release of regulation culminates long rulemaking period for operations and pilot certification

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R&D

U.S. Air Force researchers see hybrid-electric flight as most promising

By Paul Brinkmann

September 12, 2024

Potential for autonomous flight also attracts interest

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Advanced air mobility

Coming to parklands near you: personal air vehicles?

By Paul Brinkmann

August 29, 2024

Discussions begin about whether these single-person electric aircraft should be treated the same as piston-engine ultralights

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Advanced air mobility

As air taxi developers burn through dollars, having a corporate owner could be helpful — but within limits

By Paul Brinkmann

August 7, 2024

Not everyone wants to be first into business

AI at work: mastering the airspace

By Aaron Karp and Ben Iannotta

NASA’s AI czar

By Cat Hofacker

VIPER’s AI assistant

By Keith Button

The end of an era

By Jonathan O'Callaghan

The big question: Is it time to regulate commercial human spaceflight?

By Debra Werner

Commercial space trailblazer

By Jonathan Coopersmith

Meet the next pseudo satellites

By Paul Marks

Aviation confidant

By Paul Brinkmann

Meet Liberty Lifter

By Paul Marks