Air TaxiDo Safety Regulators Want Parachutes On Passenger Air Taxis? The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has told a major air taxi manufacturer that it would be penalized for including a non-steerable ballistic parachute in their design, according to Larry…
IIOTPipistrel Receives First EASA Certification for an Electric Aircraft. Who's Next? Pipistrel’s two-seat Velis Electro was awarded type certification by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on June 10, the first electric aircraft in the world to do so. Derived from the…
Air TaxiEASA Releases Next Piece of Regulatory Guidance for Electric Air Taxis Following the publication of a Special Condition for hybrid-electric and electric VTOL aircraft last year, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) released some details on how manufacturers can reach compliance in…
Air TaxiUK’s Split from EASA Likely to Increase Burden on European Air Taxi Startups The United Kingdom will withdraw as a member of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) at the end of 2020, gradually transitioning responsibility for safety regulation and new aircraft type certification…
Embedded AvionicsEASA and FAA to Issue Further Guidance on Multicore Certification This Year The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are to issue further guidance on the certification of airborne systems with avionics multicore processors this year, according to EASA.…
Air TaxiVolocopter Receives First eVTOL Design Organization Approval from EASA Volocopter received Design Organization Approval (DOA) from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), becoming the first aerospace company focused on electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to do so in the process.…
CommercialEASA Clarifies Position on Boeing 737 MAX Return to Service On Sept. 27, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) clarified statements it made that were recently published in an article by a publication called Flyers Rights about the process it is currently…
Air TaxiVolocopter Unveils First Commercial Air Taxi Design: VoloCity German urban air mobility developer Volocopter has confirmed the first commercial model in its air taxi program, VoloCity, along with plans for the new design’s first test flight to occur later this…
CommercialEuropean Airlines to Meet June 2020 ADS-B Deadline, With Some Exceptions The number of aircraft operated by European airlines in compliance with EASA’s June 7, 2020 ADS-B Out mandate has doubled to more than 40 percent since October 2018, according to a…
CommercialThe Thousand Cuts of Boeing's Indefinite 737 MAX Grounding Could Cost the Company Big Boeing's stock price peaked at $446.39 per share on March 1, 9 days before Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed, killing all 157 passengers and crew on board and leading to the ongoing…