MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Kitty Hawk, an aircraft manufacturing startup in Mountain View, California, has unveiled its Flyer all-electric, one-person, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft constructed of composite material, powered and propelled by 10 independent-lift fans, and promoted as a recreational vehicle, but could later be used for personal transport in urban environments.  

MOHAVE, Calif. Teams from Virgin Galactic in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and The Spaceship Company in Mohave, California, again put the VSS Unity rocket-powered, supersonic spaceplane through its paces, during a second test flight, on the path to entering commercial service this week. Roughly two months after the first test flight, VSS Unity took to the skies at the Mojave Air and Space Port, a civilian aerospace test center, in Mojave, California.

NASHUA, N.H. Lockheed Martin officials in Bethesda, Maryland, needed a trusted industry partner to help ensure the readiness of critical electronic warfare (EW) systems on the company’s F-35 Lightning II military fighter aircraft. BAE Systems in Nashua, New Hampshire, won a five-year contract to manage the supply chain and establish the infrastructure necessary to keep systems mission-capable and readily available to warfighters.

ARLINGTON, Va. American Helicopter Society officials in Fairfax, Virginia, have recognized the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Virginia, and Aurora Flight Sciences in Manassas, Virginia, with the Howard Hughes Award for their joint work on the Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System (AACUS). An advance in autonomous flight capability, AACUS enables any rotary-wing aircraft, including myriad military helicopters, to fly autonomously to achieve mission success even in austere environments, officials say.