This experimental vertiport is to test the components of an urban air mobility service that could be launched for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, to be hosted in Paris.
The situation presents a risk to civil aviation and the potential for “miscalculation or misidentification,” as evidenced by the surface-to-air missile strike of the Navy aircraft while it was operating over the Gulf of Oman, the agency said.
One Aviation and its debtors are asking the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to approve the bidding and other procedures involving a sale of the company’s assets to Citiking International, the company’s debtor-in-possession lender, or to a higher bidder.
Airbus Helicopters is to fly a conventional helicopter using an electric backup system in 2020 as part of flight trials with the French Ministry for Transport.
The company believes its baseline design can economically operate on routes up to transpacific in length while simultaneously defeating the problems of sonic boom and airport noise that killed off the Concorde 16 years ago.
Professional association and standards-writer SAE International says it is forming a new committee for applied artificial intelligence (AI) in aviation systems.
The companies said the agreement combines Raytheon’s expertise in supplying the FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System and AirMap’s as a service supplier for the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability.
The number of used business jets for sale rose 2% in June to 1,772 aircraft, which represents 7.6% of the active fleet, according to a report by Jefferies.
The aircraft would be equipped with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, or BACN, to increase communication coverage for deployed ground troops.
“From our humble beginnings in a rented shack in Europe six years ago, I am proud of what we have achieved as a team and the appreciation we receive from our customers, as well as the regulators involved in this program.”
“I am proud to see our big companies moving out of their comfort zones to go further, being even more creative and setting themselves up to offer more creative mobility solutions,” said French Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne.
As the aerospace industry accelerates toward an electric future, Rolls-Royce has secured a jump-start on its strategic goals with the surprise acquisition of Siemen’s electric and hybrid electric aerospace propulsion unit.
The two companies will develop the P600 AEW platform by mounting the IAI Elta’s ELM-2096 active electronically scanned array surveillance radar in a ski-box-like pod mounted atop the fuselage of Embraer’s new Praetor 600 business jet.
Safran Helicopter Engines has achieved European Aviation Safety Agency certification of the Arrano turboshaft for Airbus’ new H160 twin-engine medium helicopter.
