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Electric propulsion compared to gas turbine engines.
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Graham Warwick

Ask the Editors: There’s a way to go before propulsion electrification, but the type certification of aircraft begins to lay the bricks.
 
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Zipline’s Digital Journey – saving lives is what this drone start-up is all about. Zipline is a California-based company transforming the way medical deliveries are made to remote or hard-to-reach areas. This is made possible by the digitalization of autonomous drones that airdrop medical supplies – Watch the video.
 
Steve Trimble

The Pentagon identified two programs to support NGAD in 2014, then went silent; one has reemerged in budget documents this year.
 
Irene Klotz

 SpaceX ended its first crewed spaceflight — a two-month test run to the International Space Station — on Aug. 2 with a successful parachute splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.
 
From the U.S. quest to replace its Apache helicopters to India’s effort to replenish its air force fighter and naval rotorcraft fleets, every corner of the globe is looking for new military aircraft. Aviation Week editors highlight top defense contests and discuss how they will be impacted by the COVID pandemic and whether the fortunes of companies may rise or fall based on the outcomes.
 
The Defense supply chain is under new pressures. With Covid-19 resizing the commercial aviation sector, many defense-related suppliers are seeing their business models challenged like never before. Meanwhile, new cybersecurity requirements are taking hold while defense providers watch future budget pressures weigh on Pentagon's spending plans. A panel of industry leaders at the upcoming DefenseChain Conference will review the state of change and how these challenges are affecting the supply chain.
 
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Graham Warwick

Swiss eVTOL demo; EASA advances AI; suborbital spaceplane; AeroTEC advances electric; EHang expands; and Sunglider flies higher.
 
Thierry Dubois

As Airbus is reconciling production rates and deliveries, its CEO sees the current situation as manageable for the supply chain.
 
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