Air TaxiBristow Group, AAP Aviation, ASL Group, and Helity Plan to Buy Lilium's eVTOL Aircraft As part of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding, Bristow Group plans to purchase 50 of Lilium’s electric aircraft and provide maintenance services for a launch network in Florida as well as future…
CommercialPODCAST: Air Canada 787 Pilot Talks Aero HygenX and Autonomous Aircraft Disinfection On this episode of the Connected Aviation Intelligence Podcast, JP Floyd, Air Canada 787 Pilot and Senior Director of Compliance and Standards for Aero HygenX, joins to discuss autonomous aircraft disinfection technology. Aero…
CommercialAerSale Gives 737NG Pilots a Wearable Enhanced Vision System Aftermarket Option AerSale has awarded Universal Avionics a new $33 million contract to supply its wearable enhanced flight vision system (EFVS) for Boeing 737NG aircraft. The 737NG contract is the latest awarded to Universal…
ATM ModernizationNASA Researchers Field-Test New Technology to Aid Drone Pilots in Fighting Fires NASA’s STEReO (Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations) project, led by the Ames Research Center, has developed a prototype of a drone pilot’s kit intended to help scale up the use…
RegulationNew Research Recommends Streamlining Regulations to Enable Drone Operations in the U.S. New research from George Mason University’s Mercatus Center indicates the need for states to create and manage drone routes in order to enable growth of the commercial drone industry in the U.S.…
Air TaxiEve Unveils Full-Size Mock-Up Of Its eVTOL Cabin Eve Holdings revealed a full-sized mock-up of the cabin of its electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for the first time at the Farnborough Airshow. In another announcement at the airshow…
ATM ModernizationSESAR JU Leads Project for Medical Drone Delivery in Belgium The Belgian Civil Aviation Authority recently authorized a first-of-its-kind beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone flight in Antwerp. This was the first BVLOS drone flight over a populated area operating within…
CommercialBoeing Shifts to 2.0 Phase of Smart Networked Cabin Research Project Boeing is moving forward with the second phase of a research project designed to provide networked aircraft cabin components with the ability to send data and information to ground-based airline, maintenance, and…