The Open Fan and CFM's RISE Program, the Unducted Engine Betting That the Next Big Efficiency Jump Comes From Taking the Cowling Off. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
Auto-GCAS, the F-Sixteen Ground Collision System That Rolls the Airplane Upright and Pulls You Out of a Dive While You're Unconscious. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
Aireon, the Iridium NEXT Constellation, and the Sixty-Six Satellites That Finally Let Controllers See Airplanes Over the Open Ocean. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
The Sierra Space Dream Chaser, the Lifting-Body Spaceplane That Comes Home on a Runway Like an Airplane Instead of Splashing Into the Ocean. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
Archer Aviation's Midnight, the Twelve-Rotor Tilt eVTOL, and the Back-to-Back Hop Strategy That Bets Battery Physics Favors Short Trips. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
Electra's Blown-Lift eSTOL, the EL-Nine, and the Startup Betting That the Fastest Way to Electrify Flight Is a Very Long Wing and a Very Short Runway. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
REGENT Seagliders, Ground Effect Flight, and the Electric Boat-Plane Betting That the Future of Coastal Travel Skims the Waves Instead of Climbing Above Them. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
ZeroAvia, the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powertrain, and Whether a Gas With Three Times the Energy of Jet Fuel Can Fit Inside an Airplane. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
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