CommercialProposed Part 38 Rule Would Add New Fuel Efficiency Metric to Federal Aviation Regulations The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on June 15 published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would introduce a new Part 38 fuel efficiency metric (FEM) to the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR)—the…
AI & AutonomyZipline Receives Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate and Reveals New Detect-and-Avoid Technology for Drones Drone delivery company Zipline just announced that it has received its Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration, enabling the company to perform the longest range on-demand deliveries with…
Electrification and SustainabilityAir Nostrum Group Reserves 10 Aircraft from Hybrid Air Vehicles Air Nostrum Group, one of Europe’s largest regional airlines, has reserved 10 hybrid-electric aircraft from the UK-based company Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV). HAV’s aircraft design, the Airlander 10, is expected to launch…
AI & AutonomyWisk Aero Partners with Local Government in Queensland, Australia Electric air taxi developer Wisk Aero has entered into a partnership with the Council of Mayors South East Queensland to bring autonomous aircraft services to the region. Wisk and the Council of…
Business & GAGarmin Hits 25,000 Delivery Milestone for Integrated Avionics Flight Decks Garmin has achieved a delivery milestone for its line of avionics cockpit technologies, as the company celebrated the delivery of more than 25,000 integrated flight decks in a June 15 announcement. According…
CommercialFAA Requires 5G C-Band Filters for ‘Most Susceptible’ Regional Aircraft by End of 2022 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requiring operators of regional aircraft that the agency has identified as being the most susceptible to interference from 5G C-band wireless signals to install radio frequency…
UnmannedAmazon Prime Air is Set to Start Drone Deliveries This Year Amazon’s drone delivery service, Prime Air, will begin serving customers by the end of this year, the company announced this week. Drone deliveries will first launch in Lockeford, California, a community with…
Artificial IntelligenceNew Report Suggests Distributed Ledger Architecture for UTM Systems Cranfield University published a report this week exploring some questions about the development of an uncrewed traffic management (UTM) system. The document is the result of a research partnership between Cranfield, Heathrow…
CommercialAirbus Completes First A321XLR Test Flight, Targets 2024 Entry into Service Airbus completed a successful first test flight of the A321XLR in Germany, the Toulouse-based aircraft manufacturer announced Wednesday. The A321XLR is the latest extra-long range variant of the Airbus A320 family that…
Air TaxiOverair Just Received $145 Million in Funding for eVTOL Development Overair, the Santa Ana, California-based electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) startup, just announced that it is receiving $145 million in funding for continued eVTOL development. The funding comes from the aerospace…