Toyota expands U.S. safety research after 100 projects, ties studies to design changes
Toyota’s safety model in Michigan starts with a systems-engineering premise: use detailed simulation to narrow the problem, maintain tightly controlled…
USAF C-17 Flew With ISF Nose Panel After One-Off Supply Failure
The immediate problem was not damage assessment. It was manufacturing economics. A storm-damaged C-17 needed a replacement left nose panel,…
Air Force Says OA-1K Was Lost After Fuel Control Mistake
An Air Force Special Operations Command investigation says an OA-1K Skyraider II was destroyed after a trainee pilot selected the…
Orlando Approves FAA-Guided eVTOL Demo Pad Before Full Vertiport Buildout
A full-service vertiport and a demonstration pad may sound like the same advanced air mobility project at different sizes. At…
B-21 Raider Still Targets 2027 as B-1B Stays Until 2037
The Air Force is keeping two bomber timelines in view at once. Gen. Dale White said the new B-21 Raider…
Northrop Builds More B-21s as Air Force Weighs Fleet Above 100
Northrop Grumman says it is already increasing B-21 Raider production while the U.S. Air Force studies whether to speed that…
Canada Awards Telesat C$2.3 Billion Arctic Military Broadband Contract
Canada has awarded Telesat an initial C$2.3 billion military communications contract to improve broadband coverage for the Canadian Armed Forces…
Taiwan Targets 100,000 Drones a Month by 2030
100,000 drones a month is the number Taiwan says it wants to reach by 2030. That goal, reported Aug. 9,…
NASA Power Swap Keeps Voyager 2’s Last 3 Instruments Running Longer
Voyager 2 has been living on borrowed watts for years. NASA’s latest fix does not change the spacecraft’s basic problem…
SpaceX Says Flight 13 Starship May Still Be Lost at Sea
Starship survived its planned ocean landing, but SpaceX now says the Flight 13 vehicle may still be lost before it…
FAA Clears Heart Aerospace X1 for Limited Electric Flight Tests
Heart Aerospace can move its full-scale X1 demonstrator from ground validation into piloted flight testing, but the initial campaign will…
Electrogenic’s Seven Electric-Conversion Kits Preserve Chassis With Reversible Bolt-In Designs
An electric conversion becomes much harder when engineers cannot treat the original vehicle as raw material. Electrogenic’s seven vehicle-specific kits…
SwissDrones Plans U.S. Infrastructure Inspections, but Each Program Needs Federal Approval
SwissDrones and Xplorate Pacific have an aircraft, sensor package and operating model for long-range infrastructure inspection, but not a blanket…
Amazon Reviews E-Bikes After New York Warns Retailers of $2,000 Fines
Amazon is reviewing e-bikes and other motorized mobility products identified by New York City after officials ordered major online retailers…
FCC Approves Reflect Orbital’s Three-Mile Nighttime Sunlight Test Despite Warnings
A satellite designed to redirect sunlight onto a roughly three-mile-wide area at night has cleared a key federal hurdle despite…
Qatar’s $400 Million Boeing 747 Could Remain in Federal Service
The Qatar-supplied Boeing 747-8, valued at approximately $400 million, no longer has a confirmed destination at the planned Trump Presidential…
SpaceX, Tesla Confirm $16.8 Billion Texas Chip Plant Spanning 100 Million Square Feet
SpaceX and Tesla have paired one of the largest proposed semiconductor developments in the United States with public support whose…
US-Ukraine Deal Opens Military Drones to Pentagon Testing and Billion-Dollar Competition
The United States and Ukraine have signed a statement of intent that could bring Ukrainian military drones into Pentagon testing…