Artificial IntelligenceQatar Airways Cargo Enters Strategic Partnership with FLYR Labs A new strategic commercial partnership between Qatar Airways Cargo and FLYR Labs was announced this week. Qatar Airways Cargo launched its “The Next Generation” initiative last year which includes digital transformations and…
Electrification and SustainabilityTrends in Mobility: Electric Aircraft, Drone Delivery, and Autonomous Flight The investment firm UP.Partners just released a report detailing current micro and macro trends in mobility. The “Moving World Report” explores the rapid progress in innovation for the transportation industry. It also…
Electrification and SustainabilityCollins Leads Effort To Develop Power Distribution Technologies For Electric Aircraft A steering committee led by Collins Aerospace, charged by the European Union to study high-voltage electric power distribution technologies for regional aircraft, aims to develop hardware to be ground tested by 2025.…
CommercialOPINION: A More Efficient Solution for Business Travel The following article is contributed by Roope Kekalainen and Jari-Jussi Viinikkala, co-founders of Lygg—a regional air mobility startup. Business travel is on the rise. As the world has emerged from the pandemic,…
Electrification and SustainabilityCTO at Blueprint Power Talks Sustainable Solutions for Reducing Airport Emissions Nick Schmidt, Chief Technology Officer at Blueprint Power, recently offered some perspectives on their services and technology platform as well as the topic of decarbonization in the aviation industry. Check out our…
MilitaryAirbus Launches Two R&D Projects As Part of the European Defence Fund Airbus recently launched two research and development (R&D) projects which are funded by the European Defense Fund (EDF). The two projects, the European Defence Operational Collaborative Cloud (EDOCC) and the EU Next…
CommercialAirbus Chooses Altair SimSolid Technology for ZEROe Initiative Altair announced this week that its simulation technology, Altair SimSolid, was selected by Airbus Commercial for streamlining the design and engineering of a zero-emission commercial aircraft. This effort is part of Airbus’s…
Air TaxiSiemens and Skyway Collaborate on Vertiport Development and Research Last week, Siemens shared that it is collaborating with Skyway to develop vertiports and to evaluate the necessary infrastructure—particularly electrical and digital—for supporting vertiport operations. Vertiports are locations where advanced air mobility…