TOP NEWS Military UPDATED: Four Companies Will Now Compete to Replace Army Shadow Drones Four companies will now compete to build a replacement for the U.S. Army’s RQ-7 Shadow drone after the service added another two challengers to the $100 million program. The Army announced July 24 that Arcturus UAV of Rohnert Park, California, and Ashburn, Virginia-based L3 Technologies would join Textron subsidiary AAI Corp. and Martin UAV to…
Public Service Florida Keys Orders Two More H125s to Fight Mosquito-Borne Diseases, Brings State Fleet to 10 Florida Keys’ Mosquito Control District has ordered two new Airbus H125 helicopters, bringing the state's total mosquito-fighting helicopter fleet to 10. The Keys’ Mosquito Control…
Commercial Witness Reports "Blue and White Lights Spinning" Before Fatal AW139 Crash in Bahamas A witness to the July 4 crash of an AW139 helicopter that killed coal billionaire Chris Cline and six others, including his daughter, reported seeing…
Commercial How Uber Plans to Make Money From Urban Air Mobility With the goal of pioneering a potential $500 billion new industry and an aggressive timetable, Uber wants to know how it can make money. That's…
Commercial Advancing the Art and Science of Flight Everyone knows safety is the number-one priority of aviation, but just behind that is an ever-present impulse to advance the art and the science of…
Commercial Rotor Operators Begin ‘Earnest Search’ to Meet ADS-B Mandate While misconceptions about the Federal Aviation Administration’s Jan. 1, 2020 mandate to install digital transponders have slowed helicopter operators’ adoption of Automatic Dependence
Safety Dusk ‘Til Dawn As night vision and other technologies have made night operations safer, interest has reawakened in allowing helicopters to fight fires, transport critically injured patients and…
Training Training with the Brain in Mind Modern full-flight simulators are so realistic that a student pilot can learn to fly from scratch in the virtual world and step directly into an…
Military V-22 at 30 Three decades after it first took flight, enough V-22 Ospreys are deployed to far-flung locations that virtually no corner of the globe is unreachable by…
Military Raider: The First Public Flight of Sikorsky’s Fast Attack Prototype Test pilot Bill Fell was zooming southward, approaching Sikorsky’s runway outside West Palm Beach, Florida, at about 190 knots when he decided that was as…
Public Service The Difficult Privilege As law enforcement aviators, we are tasked with protecting and serving the public through the use of a flying police car and anyone who has…
Military Northrop Grumman Looking To Offer Laser Weapon Capability For Army’s Short-Range Air Defense