Italian investigators probing the fatal crash of the second prototype AW609 commercial tiltrotor have concluded that faulty logic within the aircraft’s flight control system ultimately led to the accident.
Safran Aircraft Engines is maintaining its goal of obtaining certification next spring for the Silvercrest engine, destined to power the Dassault Falcon 5X and the Cessna Hemisphere business jets.
Business aircraft flight activity in North America rose 5.3% in April compared to a year ago, led by an 11% upturn in the Part 135 market, Argus International TraqPak data shows.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) this September will hold the first of what officials hope will be a yearly event concerning small UAS.
A year after forming a commercial business unit in a bid to expand out of its core defense market, unmanned aircraft manufacturer Insitu has unveiled a revamped suite of remote-sensing and information-processing services.
Airbus has formed a U.S.-based company, called Airbus Aerial, to bring together commercial satellite and unmanned aircraft remote sensing to provide data collection and image processing services to large and global enterprise customers.
Logos Technologies’s Redkite sensor has captured and streamed wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) to multiple handheld devices in flight tests on Insitu’s Integrator tactical unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said it is “not possible to fully determine the magnitude of the risk” associated with continued operation of ATR 42 and ATR 72 twin turboprops until a wide-ranging engineering analysis underway at ATR is complete in July.
