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Airbus unveils next-gen airliner tech at Summit 2025, featuring bird-like wings, open fan engines, hybrid systems, and recyclable materials for greener skies.

JetZero, Natilus, and Airbus are shooting for entry to service in the 2030s, meaning the reality of blended-wing commercial travel is still years away at best. And there are plenty of challenges.

IndiGo also announced a wide-body aircraft operation on its 18th anniversary, that by 2027 IndiGo will start IndiGo wide body services on Airbus 350-900 planes. (ANI) ...

To describe the efforts as futuristic would be a rank understatement. Current plans envisage composite wings far longer and thinner than those on Airbus’s existing planes and feature a hinge at ...

Airbus flew its strange helicopter-airplane hybrid called Racer for the first time in Marseille, France on Monday. The aerospace manufacturer categorizes the aircraft as a high-speed compound ...

Meanwhile, Korean Air is accelerating the modernization of its aircraft for safe operations. Including this contract to purchase 33 Airbus aircraft, the company plans to introduce a total of 143 new ...

Those on board JAL's Airbus liner feared that could have been their fate. "It felt like we abruptly hit something. Then the fire started, like, 'bang!'" a male passenger told broadcaster TBS.

Airbus says making wings longer, leaner, and lighter is one of the biggest ways to improve fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. As such, the innovations will help the aviation industry ...

Two years after the world's largest jetliner rolled out of its Toulouse factory for the last time, Airbus is preparing to bring some A380 superjumbos back to their birthplace for wing inspections ...

Airbus has not said what the plane, known internally as "A220 Stretch," would involve but sources say one scenario calls for new wings and engines for entry to service not before 2030.

Airbus (AIR.PA) is stepping up testing of radical new wing technology as the planemaker lays the foundation for a future successor to its best-selling A320 series, but faces a battle to bring down ...