Commercial Kopter's Third Prototype Passes Inspection After 100 Hours of Flight Kopter’s third prototype SH09 has flown nearly three dozen test sorties and spent about 100 hours off the ground since reaching Sicily in March. The…
Commercial How Batteries Will Power the Next Evolution of Aviation To certify battery packs for use in electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicles, companies need data. But, how do you test something that isn't yet happening? Painstakingly,…
Military French Air Force Orders Additional H225M The French Air Force has ordered an additional heavy twin Airbus H225M helicopter to add to its existing fleet of 10. It will be delivered…
Commercial Uber Elevate: All the Highlights from UAM's Biggest Show Uber's third annual Elevate Summit has closed, and you can be forgiven for missing some of the announcements which hit downtown Washington fast and hard.…
Military US Army Puts Boeing On Contract For Seven More Special Ops Chinooks U.S. Special Operations Command on July 12 awarded Boeing a $194 million contract to build a second lot of MH-47G Block II Chinooks. The award…
Commercial Uber Announces Partners for Skyport Construction, Operations Uber announced a series of partnerships to tackle the infrastructure and operations challenges that surround the operation of air taxis in urban environments. To conduct…
Military Cost A Major Factor in GE Win Of Army Helicopter Engines Contract In its evaluation of the two bids for the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), the U.S. Army rated Advanced Turbine Engine Company's (ATEC) dual-spool T900…
Military AeroVironment Acquires Pulse Aerospace, Adding VTOL Drones to Product Suite AeroVironment on Tuesday said it has acquired Pulse Aerospace for $25.7 million in cash, adding a product line of small vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned…
Commercial Safran Wants to Get You Inside an Air Taxi, But Isn't Sure Whose Yet Safran designing cabins for Uber air taxis is a bit of an unusual arrangement because Uber Elevate is not in the business of manufacturing aircraft.…
Commercial Here Are the eVTOL Aircraft Concepts On Display at Uber Elevate The third annual Uber Elevate summit is taking place this week in Washington, D.C., and the rideshare giant and its partners are using the opportunity…
Commercial Melbourne Joins Dallas, L.A. as Third Uber Air Launch City Melbourne, Australia, is Uber’s third international pilot city for Uber Air, joining Dallas and Los Angeles as launch municipalities for the rideshare giant’s air taxi…