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By Tony Osborne
Four and half years since the Brexit referendum and aerospace is no nearer to understanding what the UK’s future trading relationship with its nearest and largest trading partner will look like.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Michael Bruno
Air taxi startup Blade Urban Air Mobility will be taken over by a special purpose acquisition company, setting up what could become the first publicly traded electric-powered air vehicle service provider as the technology emerges this decade.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
German air rescue service ADAC Luftrettung has reserved two VoloCity electric air taxis from Volocopter to prepare for operational emergency medical service tests of the piloted multicopters in 2023.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
The FAA is allowing pilots and air traffic controllers in the U.S. to receive the first vaccine developed for COVID-19 under their existing medical certifications and has committed to evaluating vaccines from other manufacturers as they are introduced.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
Piper Aircraft has earned FAA type certification for its Pilot 100, a lower-cost addition to its line of training aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
A small UK tech company says it has found an answer to the rapidly growing problem of fake COVID-19 certificates that threaten to undermine efforts to ensure air passengers are free of infection when they board an aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
EHang has received an experimental flight permit in Austria allowing it to begin flight trials of the two-seat EH216 autonomous air vehicle with partner FACC.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
South Korean automaker Hyundai has restated its ambition to dominate the global urban air mobility market and outlined plans to develop a family of passenger and cargo vehicles to be fielded beginning in 2026.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
At a time when roughly two-thirds fewer people are flying commercially it might be hard to imagine that someday record numbers of people will fly and many of them will pay up for far-faster flights.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Private aircraft fleet operator Luxaviation Group on Dec. 10 announced an agreement with the management of Lugano Airport, Switzerland, to establish flight connections to Geneva and Bern.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Graham Warwick
A European team has flown a hydrogen-powered test aircraft as part of a program to develop a modular approach to hybrid-electric propulsion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
The FAA lags in its safety oversight of open-door helicopter operations, the U.S. Transportation Department inspector general has determined.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
France’s EcoPulse distributed hybrid-electric propulsion demonstrator has passed its preliminary design review, freezing the configuration and paving the way for a first flight in 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation has become the first manufacturer to receive airworthiness approval for its electric air taxi under the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime initiative.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
LONDON–Cargo carrying unmanned air vehicles could begin making daily flights between the UK mainland and the Scilly Isles in 2021, following the
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Linda Blachly
British satellite operator Inmarsat has puts its very-high-throughput GX5 satellite into commercial service, boosting inflight broadband capacity for its commercial and business aircraft customers in Europe and the Middle East.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Graham Warwick
German startup Lilium has partnered with Lufthansa Flight Training to develop a pilot sourcing and training program that will support its planned global deployment of regional air mobility services.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
The Middle East & North Africa Business Aviation Association has canceled its February 2021 MEBAA show and is rescheduling it to December 2022 because of ongoing challenges with border restrictions and lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno, Thierry Dubois, Helen Massy-Beresford
As many airlines, manufacturers and suppliers around the world fight for survival after the impact of the pandemic, could they be breathing a sigh of relief at
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Electric propulsion developer MagniX has partnered with Australian operator Sydney Seaplanes and start-up Dante Aeronautical to work toward the first supplemental type certification of an electric-powered Cessna Caravan.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Satcom Direct is adding a new engineering and hardware production campus to its facilities in Ottawa, Ontario, to keep up with growing demands.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
Fifteen aviation industry groups have asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to suspend an auction of radio frequency spectrum near the band used for radar altimeters.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
U.S. start-up Ampaire is flying its hybrid-electric testbed on a regional airline route in Hawaii to demonstrate the propulsion technology’s potential to reduce fuel burn and CO2 emissions by 40-50%.
Emerging Technologies

By Michael Bruno
Textron’s Bell helicopter division has acquired Response Technologies, a Rhode Island-based startup focused on flexible, additively manufactured, textile-reinforced composites and fuel cells.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
U.S. start-up Joby Aviation has agreed to acquire Uber’s Elevate aerial ridesharing program in a deal that involves Uber increasing its previously undisclosed investment in the electric air taxi developer.
Safety, Ops & Regulation