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The future of Aircraft
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- 2017first covered
- 11 Jul 2025latest update
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- China unveils low cost fighter jet to disrupt US military export dominanceSecurity and privacy
- The world’s first private supersonic jet takes to the skies in AmericaTransport and mobility
- Two Chinese Sixth Gen fighter jets tear across the skies in ChinaSecurity and privacy
- World’s first SSTO Aerospike aircraft to fly later this monthSpace
- Automatic take offs are coming for passenger jetsTransport and mobility
- The world’s largest aircraft hauls wind turbine blades round the worldTransport and mobility
- Airbus surveyed 100 airports to advance autonomous aircraft plansTransport and mobility
- The world’s first dogfight between an AI and a human pilot has taken placeRobotics
- A ground breaking Aerospike SSTO prototype crashes before engine testEarth and energy
- Whitehat hackers reported an extensive flaw in the Airbus EFBSecurity and privacy
- Unpowered cargo gliders could reduce air freight costs by 65%Transport and mobility
- DARPA gets green light to build first of a kind X65 CRANE jetTransport and mobility
- New nanopaint could reduce aviations CO2 emissions by 2 percent or moreIndustry and manufacturing
- This new active turbulence system cancels 80 percent of turbulenceTransport and mobility
- The FAA is getting America’s skies quantum readySecurity and privacy
- Maglev Aero unveils its ultra quiet revolutionary eVTOL propulsion systemTransport and mobility
- The USAF’s Project VENOM is turning old F-16’s into drone wingmenSecurity and privacy
- Hermeus’s first of a kind Chimera engine switches from supersonic to hypersonicTransport and mobility
- DARPA’s unveils its revolutionary CRANE X-Plane with no moving partsTransport and mobility
- Jetopera’s bladeless eVTOL aircraft targets 0.8 MachTransport and mobility
- Rolls Royce successfully runs a converted aircraft engine on HydrogenEarth and energy
- This Mach 5 jet from Hermeus could be the first to have a 3D printed bodyIndustry and manufacturing
- Open fan engine prototype helps Airbus cut 20 percent of aircraft emissionsEarth and energy
- Airbus uses the giant A380 to test its first prototype Hydrogen jet enginesEarth and energy
- This new silent drone flies using ionic propulsion and nothing but ionised airTransport and mobility
- A new ultra lightweight hydrogen fuel tank could make jet fuel obsoleteEarth and energy
- China plays catch up as AI trounces PLA’s best fighter pilots in simulated combatSecurity and privacy
- Wright to make a 100 seater electric aircraft powered by Aluminium by 2026Earth and energy
- Rolls Royce’s electric plane smashes multiple world recordsEarth and energy
- Designer Bonikowski’s electric jet concept uses air friction to generate its energyTransport and mobility
- United bets on a supersonic future with $3 Billion Boom orderTransport and mobility
- Worlds first oblique detention engine could unlock Mach 17 aircraftTransport and mobility
- The world’s first active duty military AI co-pilot just got its next missionAI and intelligence
- World first as AI officially joins the crew onboard a US military jetAI and intelligence
- Boom supersonic unveil their first prototype commercial aircraftTransport and mobility
- Airbus just unveiled three new radical zero-emission concept aircraftTransport and mobility
- Flying high Airbus shows off its 2030 and 2050 concept cabinsTransport and mobility
- Reaction Engines tests carbon free Ammonia as future hypersonic jet fuelEarth and energy
- AI fighter pilot obliterates human USAF pilot in simulated dogfightsAI and intelligence
- Prototype zero emission jet engine generates thrust using nothing but air and electricityEarth and energy
- Virgin Galactic unveils the interior cabin of it’s tourist space planeTransport and mobility
- US Navy’s biofuel powered Tomahawk missiles open door to sustainable rocket travelEarth and energy
- Emission free flying a step closer after Chinese plasma jet breakthroughTransport and mobility
- Futurist in the press: Coronavirus and the future of air travel, Business StandardArticles
- Featured Futurist: The Future of Air Travel 2050, NetflightsArticles
- Commercial supersonic flights get nearer after NASA green lights X-59 buildTransport and mobility
- World’s first fully pilotless commercial aircraft takes off from FranceTransport and mobility
- Skies beckon as NASA takes delivery of it’s first all electric X-PlaneTransport and mobility
- Hypersonic flight a step closer after revolutionary British hypersonic engine aces testsTransport and mobility
- NASA’s revolutionary metamaterial “morphing” wing mimics birds wingsTransport and mobility
- Autonomous planes, hypersonic jets and flying cars, Boeing unveils its futureTransport and mobility
- Boeing unveil their stunning hypersonic space plane conceptTransport and mobility
- Lockheed Martin goes full throttle to develop NASA’s quiet supersonic jetTransport and mobility
- The world’s first silent, engineless aircraft takes flight at MITTransport and mobility
- Emirates boss says future aircraft will be windowlessTransport and mobility
- Record breaking solar powered aircraft stays aloft for 26 days straightEarth and energy
- Featured Futurist, TV Interview: The Future of Aviation 2020 to 2070, APEX InsiderTransport and mobility
- A powerful battery breakthrough from MIT could usher in electric planesEarth and energy
- BAE is developing a “wearable” cockpit for fighter jetsVirtual worlds
- China tests its cutting edge hypersonic aircraft that “rides its own shockwaves”Security and privacy
- Rolls Royce is building cockroach like robots and snakes to fix airplane enginesRobotics
- Futurist in the press: Exclusive interview with Richard Branson, Metro newspaperArticles
- Mysterious hypersonic SR-72 demonstrator spotted in CaliforniaSecurity and privacy
- Fuel-less flights are on the horizon as electric aircraft taxi for take offTransport and mobility
- Two companies announce plans to become the Tesla of the airTransport and mobility
- Rolls Royce CEO sticks it to fossil fuels, announces the future of flight is electricTransport and mobility
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