Dassault Aviation has created a joint research laboratory in partnership with two French academic institutions dubbed Moliere, an acronym of the French for “innovative functional materials for aviation.”
Emirates has announced the launch of Emirates Pay, a new account-based payment method for purchasing air tickets. Emirates Pay is now available for Emirates customers in the UK and Germany who are purchasing tickets via emirates.com.
Australian startup Swoop Aero has completed a study in Mozambique that demonstrated the feasibility of using drones for the cold-chain transport of infectious tuberculosis and COVID-19 laboratory samples.
For unmanned cargo aircraft to operate effectively within a future express logistics system, what happens on the ground is as important as what happens in the air.
Having developed and flown multiple generations of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles since its founding in 2010, Kitty Hawk is on the path to fielding its first product, a two-seat H3 version of the high-performance tilt-prop Heaviside.
Eve Urban Air Mobility has confirmed plans to use EmbraerX’s Beacon maintenance platform for aftermarket coordination of its eVTOL aircraft. Embraer’s urban air mobility (UAM) spinoff Eve Urban Air Mobility Solutions has officially confirmed plans to leverage Beacon, the maintenance coordination platform developed by the OEM’s market accelerator EmbraerX.
Eviation aircraft has redesigned its Alice nine-passenger electric regional aircraft, dispensing with some of the original design’s most noteworthy features.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets in November showing that freight volumes improved compared to October, but remain depressed compared to 2019. Capacity remains constrained from the loss of available belly cargo space as passenger aircraft remain parked.