Aerospace

Super Puma replacement may be rescoped for multirole mission as commercial market tumbles.

Vertical-lift OEMs warn that the best helicopter safety standards and production processes will be inadequate to ensure success of urban eVTOL air taxi market.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecasts a trebling in the size of Angola's air transport market to 7.1 million passengers a year by 2036 at the present forecast annual growth rate of 6.7 per cent.

The Zimbabwean government is open to all forms of partnership with Air Zimbabwe and is even prepared to waive a cap on 49% foreign ownership to entice investors to the ailing state-owned carrier, reports ch-aviation.

The Algerian government has opened the country's air freight sector up to local private operators, reports ch-aviation.

AviaDev, the African aviation development conference, will take place in Cape Town in June 2018.

Airbus Helicopters prepares to launch a drone-based urban package-delivery trial service developed with partners in Singapore.

Are London and Paris balking at the high costs associated with the UCAV demonstrator’s development?

European Union planning demonstration of unmanned technologies, including naval UAVs.

Egyptair has awarded a new cargo and mail handling contract to Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in Amsterdam and Brussels, extending its relationship with WFS at both airports.

Systems Technology demos a machine-learning approach to maneuvering UAVs on carrier decks by recognizing the same gestures used to direct human pilots.

The federal deficit and interest rates threaten to constrain the Pentagon’s budget.

Boeing leverages X-43, X-51 and XB-70 design legacy to challenge Lockheed Martin for future hypersonic strike/reconnaissance role.

AirSpaceX eVTOL design taps electric vehicle tech; Zephyr stratospheric UAV for civil use; beefing up AUDS’ combat counter-UAS; reusable hypersonics study.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecasts a trebling in the size of Angola’s air transport market to 7.1 million passengers a year by 2036 at the present forecast annual growth rate of 6.7 per cent.

Aurora Flight Sciences demonstrates resupply at the touch of a button by unmanned helicopter under the Office of Naval Research’s Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System program. Photo: John F. Williams/U.S. Navy

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Four start-up carriers have applied to the Comorian government for operating licences involving both domestic and international services, ch-aviation.

Airbus, Boeing and their peers are trying to avoid the aerospace equivalent of a “midlife crisis.”

Urban air mobility generated headlines with air taxi debuts and demonstrations at the largest U.S. consumer electronics show.

DARPA’s collaborative CODE; France advances naval UAV; airspace awareness from Insitu; a better loitering munition.

Boeing HorizonX, formed to bring in disruptive ideas from both outside and inside, has its first internally developed innovation, an unmanned cargo aircraft.

If the defense budget wins enough support to pass, it would represent an increase of only about 2% over the Obama baseline.

Fifteen years after it first tried to market solar-powered high-altitude UAVs, AeroVironment signs development deal for “pseudo-satellites.”

While the consumer drone world attempts variations on the quadcopter form, the software and sensors are what will lead to something bold.