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A reduction in lead exposure and CO2 emissions are behind the Biden Administration’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge. The president is calling upon aircraft manufacturers, airlines, fuel producers, airports, and nongovernmental organizations to advance the use of cleaner and more sustainable fuels with the goal of creating 3 billion gallons of cost-competitive SAF available to […]

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on FreightWaves.com. Jen had spent weeks looking for the perfect toy for her daughter for Christmas. Then she found it online and placed the order. Only days before Christmas, she chose drone delivery as the delivery option because the e-commerce site said it would be delivered on December 23, […]

Mission controllers for Inspiration4 have updated the launch window for SpaceX’s next crewed mission to Earth orbit, launching from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. A new five-hour launch window begins at 8:02 p.m. ET on Wednesday, according to a statement. The window is based on an updated weather forecast for the launch site and possible landing […]

Israel-based aerospace company Urban Aeronautics says it has secured $10 million for the continued development of its CityHawk eVTOL aircraft. The company, founded in 2006, is currently raising a Series A round of at least $100 million. The funds announced Tuesday came from private investors from the U.S., Brazil, and Israel. About The Aircraft CityHawk […]

On Tuesday, Eviation Aircraft, a global manufacturer of all-electric aircraft, announced a partnership with Clay Lacy Aviation that will allow people to charge Alice, its all-electric aircraft, at all Clay Lacy Aviation FBOs as part of its network of services. The partnership is the first FBO agreement for Eviation. It’s in preparation for Alice’s expected […]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak could be the next entrepreneur to enter the space business. In a cryptic tweet Sunday, he said: “A Private space company is starting up, unlike the others,” with a link to a 59-second YouTube video. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 40%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container […]

Virgin Galactic has delayed the first commercial research mission of its “Unity” spacecraft as a result of concerns about a “potential manufacturing defect” in part of the flight control system, the company said. The mission, dubbed Unity 23, had been scheduled to lift off in late September or early October, from New Mexico’s Spaceport America […]

Captain Beverley Bass will never forget that moment, 20 years ago. She was piloting American Airlines Flight 49 from Paris to Dallas over the North Atlantic when the news came across an air-to-air frequency: Airplanes had hit each of twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in a terrorist attack. Soon […]

If you didn’t fly into KDCA—now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport—before September 11, 2001, you’re still out of luck as a general aviation pilot. You’ll need to be crew on an airline flight, or obtain a special clearance, in order to land at the nation’s iconic airport on the banks of the Potomac River. That’s […]

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on FreightWaves.com. Air Wisconsin, which flies under an agreement as United Express as a regional partner of United Airlines, is exploring opportunities as an all-cargo carrier with a single regional jet converted to cargo that it expects to deploy in early December, President and CEO Robert Binns said. This […]