A dramatic accident unfolded during a rehearsal for the Changchun Air Show this week, when two XPeng AeroHT manned electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft collided midair while performing a formation flight. One of the aircraft crashed and caught fire upon landing, sending thick black smoke billowing across the runway.
Transcom, a specialist in high-power amplifiers, is making bold strides into the dual frontiers of national defense and space communications. Leveraging its deep expertise in compound semiconductor technologies such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN), the company is expanding the application of its amplifier technology to address both pressing geopolitical demands and the rapidly growing low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite market.
Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) announced on Sunday that it has signed a formal teaming agreement with US defense technology company Shield AI, marking a major step toward developing an integrated, end-to-end ecosystem for advanced unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the Indo-Pacific.