Interesting Airplanes

Airbus Planning Open Rotor Engine For A320 Replacement

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 […]

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Diamond-Volocopter Integration Detailed

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 […]

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Me 262 Replica Being Prepped For AirVenture

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 […]

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