Textron Aviation has added its second Beechcraft Denali test aircraft to the Denali’s flight test program following the aircraft’s two-hour first flight.
Sceye’s high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) airship recently reached the stratosphere and demonstrated the ability “to stay over an area of operation and maintain a constant float altitude.”
Following an unsuccessful attempt in May by the town board of East Hampton to close the public airport (HTO) and reopen it 33 hours later as a private-use town airport (JPX), the board has now switched paths and requested that its attorneys begin the process of shutting down the airport entirely.
Avfuel Technology Initiatives Corp., a division of Avfuel, has made a multimillion dollar investment in Alder Fuels, which converts biomass, such as regenerative grasses and forest and agricultural residues into sustainable, low-carbon crude oil for aviation.
Two companies aiming to improve inflight connectivity have carried out what they describe as the successful delivery of high-speed, low-latency inflight connectivity from a low-Earth-orbit satellite to a commercial airliner.
The deal, valued by manufacturer Hybrid Air Vehicles as potentially in excess of $600 million, gives Air Nostrum the option of receiving up to 10 of the 100-seat aircraft.
Airline information technology provider SITA is to supply its Smart Path biometric identity management technology as a component of the passenger journey through vertiports to be developed by the UK’s Skyports.
South Korean conglomerate Hanwha has invested an additional $115 million in U.S. urban air mobility startup Overair, which is developing the Butterfly tiltrotor electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
XO, a global private jet travel provider based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to maximize its process and practices to make transportation more accessible to a larger group of customers.