Alaska Air Group and startup ZeroAvia have partnered to develop a liquid-hydrogen fuel-cell power train capable of up to 5 megawatts to power part of Alaska Airlines’ fleet of 76-seat De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 regional turboprops.
Italian and French airport operators have formed a company, Urban Blue, with international ambitions to design, build and manage the vertiport infrastructure for urban air mobility.
After a lengthy career in various business-aviation posts in his native South Africa, Chay White moved to England in 2017, to join the Luxaviation Group.
Switzerland’s air navigation service provider Skyguide is seeing the country as a laboratory for European air traffic management (ATM), as a reorganization program and accompanying system change in the country are well underway.
Chinese Tesla rival XPeng has unveiled a “flying car,” a two-seat, supercar-style electric vehicle that transforms into a twin-rotor helicopter, under development by its affiliate HT Aero.
The NTSB was analyzing data from flight recorders and looking into the maintenance history of a corporate McDonnell Douglas MD-87 involved in a runway excursion on Oct. 19.
Airflow has signed a memorandum of understanding with Honeywell to explore use of the avionics manufacturer’s IntuVue RDR-84K compact multimode radar for detect-and-avoid on its planned electric short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
The COVID-19 pandemic has not had a significant impact on the number of business aircraft in service. In fact, the number of business aircraft in-service for September 2021 is 3% higher than in September 2020 and 4% higher than in September 2019.
Citing increased confidence following static tests of its ultraquiet electric propulsors, startup Whisper Aero has accelerated plans to use the technology in a quiet, efficient electric general aviation aircraft.
Korea Aerospace Industries has unveiled plans to develop commercial and military versions of an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle, in passenger and unmanned cargo variants.
Airport development and management company Propeller Airports has acquired the Castle & Cooke fixed-based operation at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle.
A white paper outlining the benefits of advanced air mobility, created by a group of UK stakeholders, lays out an ambitious road map of actions required by 2025 if the country is to become a leader in the emerging market.
