Aerospace America

Aerospace America is the official magazine of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). It serves around 25,000 aerospace professionals, including all AIAA members and many engineering and aerospace libraries. The magazine offers up-to-date news and insights on industry trends and technologies. With its friendly and engaging layout, it has built a strong reputation for providing useful and trustworthy information.

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Site visit: Inside the plant where BETA’s electric aircraft are being built

2 weeks ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Paul Brinkmann

Company targeting end of 2026 for certification of conventional-takeoff-and-landing variant SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — The brightly lit manufacturing floor in front of me hummed with the sounds of machinery and worker activity. The focus of all this attention? Various yellow-green-coated aluminum and dark gray carbon fiber composite components that will, once assembled, form three electric aircraft.
Viking on tour

3 weeks ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Jon Kelvey

She inherited NASA’s spare Viking Mars lander. Now, she wants to find it a permanent home. Rachel Tillman grew up surrounded by Mars science, courtesy of her late father.
Boeing increases MAX production amid tariff uncertainty and frozen orders

3 weeks ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | David Ariosto

Boeing 737 MAX airplanes on the assembly line at the Renton, Washington, facility during a June 2024 media tour. Credit: Jennifer Buchanan/The Seattle Times via APThe U.S.-China trade war may require Boeing to redirect aircraft originally destined for China to other customers around the globe, CEO Kelly Ortberg said during a Wednesday earnings call. Some 50 passenger airliners were scheduled to be delivered to Chinese customers this year, 41 of which had already been built.
Inside tests of Honeywell’s tech for preventing runway collisions

4 weeks ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Keith Button

Text and voice alerts would notify pilots of nearby aircraft Today’s lexicon of automated cockpit alerts include such classics as “Pull up! Pull up!” and “Terrain! Terrain!” If Honeywell Aerospace Technologies has its way, pilots could soon get a new one: “Traffic on runway! Traffic on runway!” The Phoenix-based avionics developer this month concluded the latest round of flight tests and demonstrations of its Surface Alert, or SURF-A. Honeywell is targeting June 2026 to receive FAA approval...
FH Joanneum takes first prize in the largest AIAA Design/Build/Fly yet

1 month ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Paul Brinkmann

Some 1,200 students from 14 countries participated TUCSON, Ariz. — The team from FH Joanneum in Austria won the 29th Design/Build/Fly competition for electric radio-controlled aircraft yesterday, receiving high marks across three flights that included the guided release of a glider.
What’s next for this prototype computer that survived 14 days on the moon

1 month ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Keith Button

Results so far indicate the lightweight design withstood high levels of radiation On March 16, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander made its last transmission from the surface of the moon, marking the end of the Texas company’s first lunar mission. But the next phase of work was just beginning for a team of Montana State University researchers whose radiation-resilient computer was among the lander’s payloads.
NASA nominee calls for dual moon-Mars focus, though questions remain

1 month ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | David Ariosto

The man President Donald Trump tapped as NASA’s next administrator said Wednesday that “we don’t have to make a binary decision” when it comes to U.S. aspirations to land astronauts on both the moon and Mars. “I don’t think we need to make any tough trades,” Jared Isaacman told members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, suggesting that NASA could pursue both destinations.
Wanted: Better weather prediction for air taxis

1 month ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Paul Brinkmann

Research by NASA and industry has led to progress, but it’s not enough If all goes as planned, FAA could issue the first type certificate for an electric air taxi design sometime this year. As big a milestone as that will be, it won’t automatically allow these aircraft to begin ferrying passengers and cargo en masse, perhaps one day autonomously.
Could an ‘organically led Manhattan Project’ spark a new era in quantum sensing?”

1 month ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Cat Hofacker

U.S. officials aim to harness commercial partnerships as quantum technologies gain momentum There’s a common refrain that often echoes across the frontiers of quantum sensing: You can’t hide from gravity. Anything with mass, however small, exerts a corresponding gravitational force.
Electra’s CEO on blown lift, short takeoff and landing, and growing interest in hybrid propulsion

1 month ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Paul Brinkmann

Demonstrator flight tests continue as production aircraft design gets underwayI’ve followed many twists and turns in the nascent advanced air mobility industry over my three years covering these aircraft designed to ferry passengers and a variety of cargo. One of the latest trends is the growing interest in hybrid propulsion, in addition to the purely electric designs that dominated the early years of development.