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The future of Aircraft

  • 66articles
  • 2017first covered
  • 11 Jul 2025latest update
  • 1linked technologies

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  1. China unveils low cost fighter jet to disrupt US military export dominanceSecurity and privacy
  2. The world’s first private supersonic jet takes to the skies in AmericaTransport and mobility
  3. Two Chinese Sixth Gen fighter jets tear across the skies in ChinaSecurity and privacy
  4. World’s first SSTO Aerospike aircraft to fly later this monthSpace
  5. Automatic take offs are coming for passenger jetsTransport and mobility
  6. The world’s largest aircraft hauls wind turbine blades round the worldTransport and mobility
  7. Airbus surveyed 100 airports to advance autonomous aircraft plansTransport and mobility
  8. The world’s first dogfight between an AI and a human pilot has taken placeRobotics
  9. A ground breaking Aerospike SSTO prototype crashes before engine testEarth and energy
  10. Whitehat hackers reported an extensive flaw in the Airbus EFBSecurity and privacy
  11. Unpowered cargo gliders could reduce air freight costs by 65%Transport and mobility
  12. DARPA gets green light to build first of a kind X65 CRANE jetTransport and mobility
  13. New nanopaint could reduce aviations CO2 emissions by 2 percent or moreIndustry and manufacturing
  14. This new active turbulence system cancels 80 percent of turbulenceTransport and mobility
  15. The FAA is getting America’s skies quantum readySecurity and privacy
  16. Maglev Aero unveils its ultra quiet revolutionary eVTOL propulsion systemTransport and mobility
  17. The USAF’s Project VENOM is turning old F-16’s into drone wingmenSecurity and privacy
  18. Hermeus’s first of a kind Chimera engine switches from supersonic to hypersonicTransport and mobility
  19. DARPA’s unveils its revolutionary CRANE X-Plane with no moving partsTransport and mobility
  20. Jetopera’s bladeless eVTOL aircraft targets 0.8 MachTransport and mobility
  21. Rolls Royce successfully runs a converted aircraft engine on HydrogenEarth and energy
  22. This Mach 5 jet from Hermeus could be the first to have a 3D printed bodyIndustry and manufacturing
  23. Open fan engine prototype helps Airbus cut 20 percent of aircraft emissionsEarth and energy
  24. Airbus uses the giant A380 to test its first prototype Hydrogen jet enginesEarth and energy
  25. This new silent drone flies using ionic propulsion and nothing but ionised airTransport and mobility
  26. A new ultra lightweight hydrogen fuel tank could make jet fuel obsoleteEarth and energy
  27. China plays catch up as AI trounces PLA’s best fighter pilots in simulated combatSecurity and privacy
  28. Wright to make a 100 seater electric aircraft powered by Aluminium by 2026Earth and energy
  29. Rolls Royce’s electric plane smashes multiple world recordsEarth and energy
  30. Designer Bonikowski’s electric jet concept uses air friction to generate its energyTransport and mobility
  31. United bets on a supersonic future with $3 Billion Boom orderTransport and mobility
  32. Worlds first oblique detention engine could unlock Mach 17 aircraftTransport and mobility
  33. The world’s first active duty military AI co-pilot just got its next missionAI and intelligence
  34. World first as AI officially joins the crew onboard a US military jetAI and intelligence
  35. Boom supersonic unveil their first prototype commercial aircraftTransport and mobility
  36. Airbus just unveiled three new radical zero-emission concept aircraftTransport and mobility
  37. Flying high Airbus shows off its 2030 and 2050 concept cabinsTransport and mobility
  38. Reaction Engines tests carbon free Ammonia as future hypersonic jet fuelEarth and energy
  39. AI fighter pilot obliterates human USAF pilot in simulated dogfightsAI and intelligence
  40. Prototype zero emission jet engine generates thrust using nothing but air and electricityEarth and energy
  41. Virgin Galactic unveils the interior cabin of it’s tourist space planeTransport and mobility
  42. US Navy’s biofuel powered Tomahawk missiles open door to sustainable rocket travelEarth and energy
  43. Emission free flying a step closer after Chinese plasma jet breakthroughTransport and mobility
  44. Futurist in the press: Coronavirus and the future of air travel, Business StandardArticles
  45. Featured Futurist: The Future of Air Travel 2050, NetflightsArticles
  46. Commercial supersonic flights get nearer after NASA green lights X-59 buildTransport and mobility
  47. World’s first fully pilotless commercial aircraft takes off from FranceTransport and mobility
  48. Skies beckon as NASA takes delivery of it’s first all electric X-PlaneTransport and mobility
  49. Hypersonic flight a step closer after revolutionary British hypersonic engine aces testsTransport and mobility
  50. NASA’s revolutionary metamaterial “morphing” wing mimics birds wingsTransport and mobility
  51. Autonomous planes, hypersonic jets and flying cars, Boeing unveils its futureTransport and mobility
  52. Boeing unveil their stunning hypersonic space plane conceptTransport and mobility
  53. Lockheed Martin goes full throttle to develop NASA’s quiet supersonic jetTransport and mobility
  54. The world’s first silent, engineless aircraft takes flight at MITTransport and mobility
  55. Emirates boss says future aircraft will be windowlessTransport and mobility
  56. Record breaking solar powered aircraft stays aloft for 26 days straightEarth and energy
  57. Featured Futurist, TV Interview: The Future of Aviation 2020 to 2070, APEX InsiderTransport and mobility
  58. A powerful battery breakthrough from MIT could usher in electric planesEarth and energy
  59. BAE is developing a “wearable” cockpit for fighter jetsVirtual worlds
  60. China tests its cutting edge hypersonic aircraft that “rides its own shockwaves”Security and privacy
  61. Rolls Royce is building cockroach like robots and snakes to fix airplane enginesRobotics
  62. Futurist in the press: Exclusive interview with Richard Branson, Metro newspaperArticles
  63. Mysterious hypersonic SR-72 demonstrator spotted in CaliforniaSecurity and privacy
  64. Fuel-less flights are on the horizon as electric aircraft taxi for take offTransport and mobility
  65. Two companies announce plans to become the Tesla of the airTransport and mobility
  66. Rolls Royce CEO sticks it to fossil fuels, announces the future of flight is electricTransport and mobility

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311 Institute has published 66 articles about Aircraft since 2017, most recently on 11 July 2025.

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