Air TaxiLilium to Launch New Electric Air Mobility Network in Florida Lake Nona, Florida will be the new home to an electric air mobility network with the help of Munich-based Lilium, Tavistock Development Company, and the City of Orlando come 2025, according to…
RegulationThe FAA Needs to Address Competency and Training Gaps in Workforce, GAO Says The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Office of Aviation Safety (AVS) identify organization-wide competency gaps and assess training curricula on a recurring basis within its…
Embedded AvionicsBoeing and Northrop Successfully Test Open Mission Systems AESA Sensor Northrop Grumman and Boeing Defense announced successful test flights using an open mission systems (OMS) architecture with an active electronically scanned array (AESA) sensor on a midsize jet-powered aircraft. The OMS-compliant AESA…
Electrification and SustainabilityD3 Technologies Looks to Fill Air Traffic Management Gap in UAM D3 Technologies wants to fill a gap in the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) space: air traffic management. Using ground modules, avionics, transceivers, and sensor suites, the D3 Air Vehicle Control System (AVCS)…
IIOTFAA Makes New Beyond Unmanned Aircraft Initiative Permanent The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a new permanent commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) airspace integration initiative, BEYOND, that will focus on three challenge areas: beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations,…
MilitaryTu-160M2 Blackjack Takes First Flight with New Turbofan Engines The Russian Tu-160M2 Blackjack, a supersonic variable-sweep wing heavy strategic bomber, completed its first flight with new serial NK-32-02 turbofan engines at Kazan Aviation Plant S.P. Gorbunov, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) announced…
Business & GABye Aerospace Gets Investment from South Korean Aerospace9 Aerospace9, an information and technology company based in South Korea, has agreed to purchase 300 of Bye Aerospace’s all-electric aircraft, according to a Nov. 2 press release. The agreement marks an important…
LongshotsAFRL Recruits Purdue and Notre Dame for Hypersonic Research The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is partnering with Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame to conduct hypersonic research in key areas including the transition from laminar to turbulent flow,…