Interesting Airplanes

A four-engine amphibious waterbomber, with possible military uses, has been certified by China.

The next Mission Impossible movie Final Reckoning has a lot of aircraft involvement, including star Tom Cruise hanging from a Stearman.

The Global Combat Air Programme sixth-generation fighter will have twice the payload of an F-35.

Britten-Norman says China’s new cargo drone sure looks a lot like its Islander.

Airbus is working on a full-sized airliner powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

Airbus says it is considering using an open rotor engine on its replacement for the A320. The company has been working with CFM to develop the engine, which has primary and secondary counter-rotating turbine vanes on the outside of the engines rather than being encased in a nacelle. Exposing the turbines makes the bypass ratio […]

Diamond Aircraft and Volocopter have released details on their recent integration, and the plan is to keep developing the multicopter but under the well-established manufacturing structure at Diamond and at the same time enhancing Diamond’s product line. Volocopter was bought out of insolvency by Diamond parent Wanfeng earlier this month. Volocopter will be operated by […]

The Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is hoping to fly its scratch-built replica Me 262 to AirVenture in July. The museum released a short video on social media late last week showing a snippet of the first taxi test of the aircraft. “We reached a major milestone on the road to EAA AirVenture!” the museum […]

A well-known South African test pilot was killed in the crash of a vintage jet fighter at an airshow there on Saturday. “It is with profound sadness that the organizers of the West Coast Airshow confirm a fatal accident involving James O’Connell, a highly skilled and respected test pilot from South Africa,” the statement said. […]

Boeing will build what is widely believed to be the Air Force’s last crewed fighter air craft. President Donald Trump told reporters in an Oval Office briefing that the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) is designated the F-47. The aircraft is a sixth-generation design incorporating stealth aerodynamics with advanced threat detection and precision weapons systems. […]