By: Maycol Vargas Source: Airbus and Simple Flying Amsterdam, June 15, 2021 – Airbus, the global leader in aeronautics and space, has established zero-emission development centers in Germany and France. With the creation of Zero-Emission Development Centers (ZEDC) at its facilities in Bremen, Germany and in Nantes, France, the giant Airbus decides to focus its…
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By: Maycol Vargas Source: Embraer Amsterdam, June 12, 2021 – Embraer and GrandView Aviation, a company that has offices at Martin State Airport and Austin-Bergstom International Airport, signed a contract for the conversion of the Phenom 300MED STC (Supplementary Type Certificate) aircraft. The announcement came from Embraer itself on June 10th. The conversion will be…
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By: Maycol Vargas Source: Airbus e Asian Aviation Amsterdam, June 9, 2021 — Airbus Helicopters has called on all aviation industry stakeholders to join the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAF). Through the creation of a Sustainable Aviation Fuel user group, Airbus Helicopters is trying to bring the industry together to boost the implementation of…
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By: Maycol Vargas Source: Embraer Amsterdam, June 7, 2021 — Eve and Helisul announce partnership to develop Urban Air Mobility products and services in Brazil, with initial order for up to 50 eVTOLs. Eve Urban Air Mobility, EmbraerX’s first spin-off, and Helisul Aviation, one of Latin America’s largest helicopter operators, announced partnership that will focus…
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By: Maycol Vargas Source: ars Technica In the last days, two companies have drawn radically different yet strangely similar visions regarding the future of air travel. In both cases the potential to change air travel as we know it is immense. The first idea is based on the construction of a network of small electric…
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By: Maycol Vargas Source: Simple Flying Amsterdam, June 2, 2021 — Qatar Airways Company Q.C.S.C. connects over 150 international destinations and is present in America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania and has a fleet of over 200 aircraft. Qatar’s state-owned airline, based at the Qatar Airways Tower in Doha, says that low-emission aircraft should be…
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By: Maycol Vargas, Source: Rolls-Royce The test site, which is called Testbed 80, was designed to carry out tests on the most efficient aeronautical engines of today, as well as even more sustainable propulsion systems in the future. Rolls-Royce, which is the world’s second-largest aero engine manufacturer, officially inaugurated the Testbed 80, the world’s largest…
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By: Maycol Vargas Amsterdam, May 28 — Joby Aviation is a startup founded in 2009 and actually has more than 700 employees. The company, based in California – US, is developing a piloted, all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL). The company’s main goal is the development of a silent, fast and non-polluting aircraft, thereby…
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Solution: Embraer source: simple flying Amsterdam, 25 May 2021– Just a couple of weeks ago, Alexis von Hoensbroech, CEO of Austrian Airlines, expressed some concerns regarding the future of the regional aircraft segment. The catchy title of the Simple Flying article sounded even stronger, and obviously we here at Embraer didn’t like that sound very much. Luckily for Embraer,…
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Part II The research question: how do the engines run? And also: what comes out of the jet engines? The DLR researchers are particularly curious about the amounts of fine dust and soot particles that come out of the engines. Because the sustainable fuel contains hardly any aromatics, it will emit less soot. But how…
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