Sustainability

FLYING gets a peek at piloting tech of the future at this year’s AirVenture.

A collaboration between Embraer and Collins Aerospace has culminated in the demonstration of an advanced ice protection system utilizing More Electric Aircraft (MEA) technology. On July 20, the two companies began its flight test campaign in Gavião Peixoto, Brazil, for its carbon nanotube electro thermal heating technology (CNT).  The CNT ice protection system was installed […]

CFM International partners with Airbus on developing technology to increase powerplant efficiency.

Embraer [NYSE: ERJ] is partnering with Raízen, one of the largest energy companies in Brazil, to develop more sustainable aviation fuel. Embraer said the two companies signed a letter of intent designed to grow the SAF production marketplace amid an industry-wide push to reach zero carbon emission by 2050. Embraer will be the first manufacturing […]

California-based Universal Hydrogen has opened a new engineering design center in Toulouse, France.

Sustainable aviation fuel is on track to be much more widely available.

Pipistrel now counts the U.K. as the next region in which it can fly its Velis Electro—the sole certificated all-electric, single-engine airplane in operation globally. Textron eAviation announced this week that the aircraft had secured approval under the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (U.K. CAA) to add to the primary-category certification it had received from the […]

Boeing acknowledges hydrogen’s potential, while Airbus plans a hydrogen-fueled airliner by 2035.

The demonstration with Pratt & Whitney is the latest of many flight tests with sustainable aviation fuel.

World Fuel Services is now an authorized branded distributor of Neste MY sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LFPB) in France is the first location where World Fuel delivered Neste’s SAF as part of the new agreement.