Honeywell is continuing its push into the advanced air mobility market with the selection of its small satellite communications system to provide beyond-visual-line-of-sight connectivity for Pipistrel’s Nuuva family of hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned cargo aircraft.
Among the technologies integral to managing high-density airspace, fully autonomous aircraft, and air taxis are detect-and-avoid systems that allow aircraft to maneuver around weather, turbulence, obstacles and other aircraft.
Organizers have postponed the Latin American Business & Aviation Conference and Exhibition 2021 planned for November, the second year the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a change of dates.
Startup HyPoint has entered into a $6.5 million collaborative agreement with Piasecki Aircraft to develop a hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system for electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.
PteroDynamics has received a U.S. Navy contract to deliver prototype vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft for a program to develop a capability to autonomously deliver cargo to and from ships at sea.
Lynne Hopper, a central figure in the 737 MAX recovery effort, has been named the new vice president and general manager of Boeing Commercial Airplanes' recently centralized Engineering Strategy & Operations (ES&O) group.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is investigating a second midair collision involving a police drone and an aircraft in the last 18 months.
Australia has approved a launch permit for tiSPACE, a Taiwanese rocket startup, to test launch its Hapith I rocket from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex by the end of 2021.