Safran Electronics & Defense and MBDA have completed the acquisition of ArianeGroup’s 63% majority stake in CILAS, a French company specialized in lasers for military
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
“UTM will increase the workload of the entire ATC sector”- IFATCA’s Eugenio Diotalevi
Eugenio Diotalevi heads the Remotely Piloted Aircraft Task Force (RPATF) of the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Associations (IFATCA) Do you ever see a
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NLR researches drone DAA system based on miniaturised transponder signal technology
The Dutch aerospace research agency NLR is working on developing a Detect And Avoid (DAA) system based on a Cooperative Traffic Sensor using transponder signal
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Tier 1 Engineering “achieves first airport-to-airport electric helicopter flight”
Tier 1 Engineering, in cooperation with its collaborator Lung Biotechnology PBC, announced today it had successfully completed a flight between Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport, near
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“The question is not whether to charge new entrants, it’s how and how much” – RTCA webinar
By Jenny Beechener “Funding is on everyone’s mind,” said Donna McLean Transportation and Government Finance Leader and Chair of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Management
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Aloft launches new fleet management and UTM capabilities
“With the release of new Air Control functionality in September – including our new Skydio integration – we also opened access to Air Control’s web, mobile apps,
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LIFT announces eVTOL tours of Manhattan as early as 2023, after link-up with Charm
LIFT Aircraft™ has announced announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the owners of Charm, one of the largest helicopter tour
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UMILES Next’s eVTOL flies in Spain to test UAM airspace integration concepts
The electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft designed by UMILES Next, Concept Integrity, equipped with FlyFree technology developed by research partner TECNALIA, took to
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Urban air mobility avoidance-maneuver flight tests in France “a success”
Flight tests held at Pontoise airfield in France and conducted as part of the EU-funded CORUS-XUAM project simulating avoidance manoeuvres in three different real-world scenarios,
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US Army “takes delivery of anti-drone ammunition for Stryker defence”
The US news service Task and Purpose has reported the US Army has begun fielding a new ‘proximity’ airburst round to its Stryker force for
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