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 EXCLUSIVE: How Pipistrel's 801 Aims to Leave the Competition in its Wake Where most eVTOL vehicles are designed top out in the 140-150 mph range, Pipstrel's 801 aircraft concept will fly at better than 200 miles per…
Commercial Metro Aviation Signs Deal For Five SH09s, Bringing Total Kopter Orders to 70 Metro Aviation has signed on to purchase five Kopter SH09 twin-engine helicopters once the aircraft is FAA certified. Kopter and Metro, the largest private hospital-based…
Commercial Philippines Buyer Becomes First Asia-Pacific Customer For Airbus H160 An undisclosed customer in the Philippines has placed an order for the first Airbus ACH160 in the Southeast Asia and Pacific region. It will be…
Commercial Ampaire’s Bet on the Hybrid-Electric Near-Future With companies pouring hundreds of millions into years-long electric aviation development programs, Ampaire believes its step-by-step hybrid-electric approach will address both high operating costs and…
Commercial Virtual Reality Could Cut Maintenance Training Time 75 Percent Avia Solutions subsidiary FL Technics is using virtual reality to train aviation mechanics in less than a fourth of the time it take with conventional…