The 2035 launch target for a hydrogen-powered Airbus has slipped by five to ten years, and no revised date has been published. Airbus is now concentrating its engineering effort on the conventional single-aisle fleet instead. The industry's own Destination 2050…

Airbus Helicopters paused the CityAirbus NextGen at the end of 2024 because the battery, regulatory, and business-model arithmetic didn't close. Current aviation-grade lithium-ion packs deliver about 250 Wh/kg. A purely electric eVTOL only starts making sense near 500 Wh/kg at…

The 1973 ban on civil supersonic flight over US land is officially gone. Executive Order 14304 directed the FAA to replace it. But "gone" doesn't mean "flyable." The replacement standard — a proposed maximum boom overpressure of 0.11 pounds per…

Civil supersonic flight over U.S. land has been illegal since 1973. The FAA proposes lifting that ban for aircraft that keep ground-level sonic boom overpressure at or below 0.11 psf. Approval is aircraft-specific, not categorical, and the agency hasn't specified…

The most recent Boom Supersonic commercial-service date that traces back to an actual company document isn't the widely repeated "2029 target" as currently stated — it's an Overture rollout in 2025 and first paying passengers by 2029, both stated in…