Air TaxiLilium Reportedly Seeks to Raise Half a Billion to Certify Regional Electric Jet The Munich, Germany-based air taxi developer Lilium is reportedly seeking to raise between $400 and $500 million, according to TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden. This would mark a step increase in the amount of…
MilitarySikorsky Working to Resolve Flight Test Data Link Issues for OPV As Sikorsky continues flight testing of its S-70 Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV) Black Hawk in West Palm Beach, Fl., the company said this week that Sikorsky and L3Harris are resolving data link…
CommercialHomeland Security, DoD, Transportation Officials Focus on Aviation Cyber Security The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Pentagon, and the Department of Transportation (DOT) have been working since May to implement the cyber security goals of the National Strategy for Aviation Security,…
Air TaxiWith Urban Air Mobility Coming into Focus, Two Companies Present Alternative Visions As a number of companies including Boeing, Bell Flight, Volocopter and Sabrewing (among others) are developing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for various cargo delivery and passenger carrying missions, two…
CommercialSouthwest Airlines Pilots File Boeing 737 MAX Lawsuit On Monday Oct. 7, the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) filed a lawsuit against Boeing alleging that the grounding of the in-service 737 MAX fleet has caused its pilots to potentially lose…
MilitaryRaytheon to Integrate Hand-Held Devices on Black Hawks Raytheon has received a $48 million U.S. Army contract to integrate and qualify hand-held devices into platform-mounted WiFi systems secured up to the Secret level, the company said on Oct. 7. Such…
Unmanned‘Detecting’ the Path to BVLOS Operations for Commercial Drones in US Airspace The full commercial potential of drones in civilian airspace in the United States is, for the moment, locked, as drones are unable to fly beyond their operator’s visual line of sight (BVLOS),…
Business & GAConnectivity Providers Explain How They’re Cyber Protecting Business Jets Cybersecurity for business aircraft has become a hot topic in recent years, with cyber-attacks on aircraft increasing annually according to business aviation solutions provider Satcom Direct (SD). In May 2019, SD reported…