CommercialSouthwest to Upgrade Anuvu IFC, Add Viasat to New 737s on Order Southwest Airlines has announced a new $2 billion investment into its current and future all-Boeing 737 fleet that includes upgrades to Anuvu's next generation in-flight connectivity (IFC) network on some of its…
MilitaryRaytheon Technologies’ New Venture Arm Invests In Hypersonic Aircraft Company Hermeus RTX Ventures, a capital investment group recently set up by Raytheon Technologies, on Thursday said it made a strategic investment in the start-up company Hermeus Corp., which is developing hypersonic aircraft for commercial…
Air TaxiLilium Completes Second EASA Design Organization Approval Audit Lilium recently announced successful completion of its second Design Organization Approval (DOA) audit by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Lilium is working towards type certification of its electric vertical take-off…
Air TaxiSaudi Arabia’s $100 Billion Investment in Aviation to Enable ATM Upgrades, New Airline and Airspace Entrants RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA — The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) committed to investing $100 billion—356 billion SAR—into its aviation sector by 2030 in an effort to upgrade its air traffic infrastructure, launch…
AI & AutonomyEmbraer, Eve, and Daedalean Test Systems for Autonomous Flight Embraer and its subsidiary Eve recently completed a series of flights to test new autonomous system technologies, collecting data via piloted helicopters for Embraer’s Autonomous Systems project (Project EASy). Partners that contributed…
ATM ModernizationBelgian UTM Company Unifly Receives €10M in Investments Unifly, a Belgium-based UTM (unmanned traffic management) system provider, announced last week that they received €10 million in investments from Terra Drone Corporation and Japanese government fund JOIN. Unifly was founded in…
Air TaxiASKA Targets 2026 Commercial Launch of “Drive and Fly” eVTOL The California-based company ASKA is developing an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft with “drive and fly” capabilities. The team expects to have a full-scale demonstrator ready to begin flight testing…
ATM ModernizationRaytheon Partners with Universities to Develop Skyler Radar Raytheon Intelligence & Space is collaborating with multiple universities to conduct research related to drone traffic management and to further develop its weather-sensing Skyler radar technology. Mike Dubois, technical program manager for…