November 1, 2024
Few would dispute that electric air taxi developers face headwinds in their efforts to begin flying passengers within a year or two. Mattia Celli and Jan Schmidt of Bain & Company, the Boston-based consulting firm, offer guidelines for success.
By Ben Iannotta
June 1, 2024
By Jonathan Coopersmith
October 1, 2022
Norman Augustine, former Lockheed Martin chief executive
May 1, 2022
Aerospace is a hot market full of groundbreaking aviation and space startups. A surprising number of these companies lack plans to protect their intellectual property. History shows that’s a mistake. Graham Phero, Robert Greene Sterne and Andrew Stevens of Sterne Kessler, an intellectual property law firm in Washington, D.C., explain.
By Aaron Karp
April 1, 2022
Funds and pledges of funding have been pouring in from large corporations to a handful of small companies that are pioneering a proposed new mode of transportation for average people. Does the investment trend guarantee that this class of electric-powered rotorcraft will soon take off with us aboard? Aaron Karp spoke to the industry executives who should know.
By Cat Hofacker
February 1, 2021
Pamela Cohn
By Jan Tegler
March 30, 2020
Dozens of companies are designing and in some cases test-flying urban air mobility aircraft, also known as air taxis. No one can say for sure how U.S. residents will react to such aircraft whooshing overhead or easing onto the vertiports that might one day sprout up on the fringes of their neighborhoods. Jan Tegler tells us about a NASA-led campaign to find answers.
By Adam Hadhazy
March 30, 2020
When the trend of air travelers feeling guilty about their carbon footprints first arose, it seemed to some in the U.S. that it could be a passing fad. Now it looks like flight shaming is not going away and could even begin impacting aircraft designs. Adam Hadhazy checks in with environmentalists and the aviation industry.
By Debra Werner
October 1, 2019
The space domain’s new status as a promising field for investment is shaking up long-standing relationships among governments, startups and corporations. Debra Werner chronicles the seismic shifts underway in the satellite market.
By Keith Button
May 1, 2019
It’s a dream shared by everyone who’s ever been stuck in a traffic jam, from the bored child in the back seat to the late-to-work-again commuter: If only I could fly. That day could be coming. Keith Button spoke to experts in the urban air mobility field about how this might work.
February 28, 2018
Amir S. Gohardani explains how the study of science, technology and society can point the way to sounder decisions in the aerospace industry
By Jan Tegler
February 1, 2018
U.S. Air Force is preparing to outsource much of its demand for "aggressor" aircraft to private companies
By Debra Werner
May 2, 2017
By Debra Werner
November 22, 2016
The Brooke Owens Fellowship
By Ben Iannotta
November 22, 2016
Maritime ops drive naval drone features
By Keith Button
October 18, 2016
The case for a spy plane to replace U-2s, Global Hawks
By Michael Peck
September 13, 2016
U.S. Air Force considers lifting the ban on Global Hawks flying in icing weather
