CommercialWATCH: Eviation’s All-Electric Alice Completes First Flight Eviation’s all-electric commuter aircraft, Alice, completed its first flight on Sept. 27 at the Grant County International Airport in Washington. The aircraft remained airborne for eight minutes at an altitude of 3,500…
CommercialBoeing Agrees to $200M Settlement for Misleading Statements on 737 MAX Flight Control System Boeing and Dennis Muilenburg—who served as president and CEO of the company from July 2015 to December 2019—agreed to pay fines separately under a Sept. 22 settlement announced by the Securities and…
CommercialOPINION: Addressing the Skills Gap in the Aviation Industry The pandemic and the associated fallout from numerous redundancies and furloughs has left the aviation industry struggling to find skilled and qualified personnel to support the ever-increasing demand for flights. Here,…
MilitaryDecision Expected This Year on Future Path for F-35 Engine A Pentagon decision on the future path for the F-35 engine may come this year. Raytheon Technologies‘ Pratt & Whitney F135 equips the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter, but the F-35 program has…
Air TaxiAmpaire Chooses EP Systems to Supply Battery Packs for Hybrid-Electric Eco Caravan Ampaire, a Los Angeles-based company that upgrades existing aircraft to hybrid-electric power, recently announced that it has selected Electric Power Systems to supply propulsion battery packs for the Eco Caravan aircraft. The…
AI & AutonomyKongsberg Geospatial Advances Solutions for Airspace Monitoring and Managing Unmanned Traffic Kongsberg Geospatial, based in Canada, develops software for geospatial visualization and situational awareness that is used for air traffic control and air defense applications. One of Kongsberg's products is IRIS UxS, an…
Air TaxiRegent’s CEO Shares Insights On All-Electric Seaglider Demonstrator's First Flight Regent announced this week that its all-electric quarter-scale seaglider technology demonstrator completed its first flight. The seaglider is the first vehicle to take off from a controlled hydrofoil to wingborne flight, the…
CommercialAir Canada Signs Purchase Agreement for Heart's Updated ES-30 Electric Aircraft Heart Aerospace has replaced the 19-seat design of its previous ES-19 aircraft with the 30-seater battery-powered ES-30. The Swedish startup has also confirmed Air Canada as a new minority shareholder with a…