ZeroAvia, a startup investigating the use of hydrogen fuel cells for sustainable green aviation, has secured a £2.7 million ($3.3 million) research grant from the British government.
The FAA has rolled out its new taxiway landing alert system at 13 airports and is confident that all 35 facilities getting the enhancement will be up and running by October 2020.
Boeing and Safran have made a joint investment in Electric Power Systems (EPS), a developer of certifiable battery packs for electrified aircraft propulsion.
There is movement on the FAA’s long-awaited draft rule to require a means of remotely identifying drones from the ground, despite the postponement of its release from September to December.
The German government is nearing a decision on key measures tackling climate change that include a massive increase in the country’s aviation tax for short-range domestic flights.
Infrastructure investment banker Nexa Capital Partners has formed Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Geomatics, a business intelligence entity focused on helping industry to use geospatial data to accelerate investment in the nascent market.
Swiss company Meteomatics and TruWeather Solutions of the U.S. have formed a partnership to provide “hyperlocal” weather forecasting using data-gathering drones to support commercial drone operations.
German startup Fraundorfer Aeronautics plans to fly a next-generation autogyro demonstrator in 2020, and aims to introduce an initial two-seat production version by 2022 and a six-seat air taxi by 2025.
The push is on for aircraft owners and operators to comply with the required upgrades for automatic dependence surveillance broadcast, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2020.
Over the next decade, the business aviation fleet in the Middle East and Africa is expected to remain constant at nearly 1,200 aircraft, according to the Aviation Week 2019 Business Aviation Fleet & MRO Forecast.
Bombardier has pledged to invest nearly $13 million to offer more than 1,000 paid internship positions in Canada for the 2019-2020 academic year, the company announced Sept. 12.
Salaries and benefits in the business aviation industry are generally equal to or higher than other aviation segments, including the airlines, according to a 2019 compensation survey by the Canadian Business Aviation Association.
Environmental protest group Heathrow Pause plans to disrupt flights at London Heathrow Airport for at least five days starting Sept. 13 by illegally flying UAVs within the airport’s exclusion zone.
Textron Aviation has opened an aircraft parts warehouse in Australia to support regional growth of its fleet of business jets, turboprops and piston aircraft.
Leading small drone manufacturer DJI and French drone services company Delair announced a partnership on Sept.12 to provide visual data collection and analysis products for industrial applications.
The “LuxStream” service will connect with SES’ managed Ku-band satellite network to offer data speeds of up to 25 Mbps in the U.S. and 15 Mbps globally.
