Yates Electrospace Corp. has launched a civilian subsidiary, Avius Air Delivery, to provide air responses for humanitarian relief, natural disasters and pandemics based on the technology of its 1-ton military resupply glider, the Silent Arrow.
AVIAA, a global group purchasing company, has partnered with New World Aviation, based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, expanding its maintenance service options to its members.
Mae Krier, one of the original “Rosie the Riveters,” sent a shipment of red polka-dot masks and hair ties mirroring the slogan of the famous World War II poster, “We Can Do It!” to students at the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Trive Capital has partnered with Cincinnati-based Field Aerospace, which offers aircraft integration, engineering modification and support for the government and aerospace and defense industries.
The next prototype of Eviation’s Alice all-electric, nine-passenger aircraft will undergo final assembly and flight test at AeroTEC in Moses Lake, Washington.
Chinese urban air taxi developer EHang is to expand its production capacity for autonomous air vehicles as it works to develop domestic and international markets for the passenger-capable aircraft.
Swiss artificial-intelligence (AI) start-up Daedalean has launched a project in partnership with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to develop the first guidance for the certification of machine learning in safety-critical applications onboard aircraft.
Textron Aviation is seeing a pickup in orders for light turboprops and jets from private buyers, but demand from corporations for larger business jets has yet to show signs of recovery, parent company Textron told analysts on July 30.
Garmin said it was returning to normal operations following a cyberattack that disrupted its web-based aviation and consumer applications for several days.
Gulfstream Aerospace continued to struggle with travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the second quarter of 2020, but managed to deliver 32 business jets compared to 31 a year ago.
The HAPSMobile venture involving Japan’s SoftBank and AeroVironment has completed a fourth test flight of its solar-powered stratospheric unmanned aircraft, flying for longer and reaching a higher altitude than previous tests.
High-speed airliner developer Boom Supersonic and engine-maker Rolls-Royce have agreed to study propulsion system concepts for the Colorado-based company’s proposed Mach 2.2 Overture aircraft design.
The FAA will not extend a three-year partnership initiative with industry and state and local governments that helped launch the first commercial drone delivery operations in the U.S.
Among the few upsides of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the increased interest in business aviation from people who have not previously flown privately. But this emerging new market has not gone unnoticed by criminals eager to exploit it.
