Feb 15, 2024 | Aerial Vehicles, Government
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is suggesting a new requirement for all existing aircraft to be retrofitted with cockpit voice recorders (CVR) capable of recording 25 hours. On Tuesday, the agency called on the Federal Aviation...
Feb 8, 2024 | Aerial Vehicles, Air Mobility
At Embraer spinoff Eve Air Mobility, founder and former Co-CEO Andre Stein was a pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM). Now, as new CEO of Eviation, he is shifting his focus to electrifying small commuter airplanes for regional air mobility (RAM) services. But despite...
Jan 25, 2024 | Aerial Vehicles
Following years of dedicated work with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), NPS and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) partners have successfully concluded the ultimate test of a nine-year continuum of research and development in one of the world’s most challenging...
Jan 18, 2024 | Aerial Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence, Events
2024 started off with a bang at CES, a show that has become by default the biggest car show of the year. Even though General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis—the former Big 3—all skipped the event this year, eager, tech-talking contenders from Germany, Japan, China,...
Oct 19, 2023 | Aerial Vehicles, Aeronautics, China, Featured
EHang Holdings said last week that the Chinese government there issued it a certification to start actual passenger trials in the country. The company will be allowed to take passengers on aerial tours, which Bloomberg reported it will offer...
Sep 21, 2023 | Aerial Vehicles, Hydrogen
The aviation industry is well aware of its carbon footprint, but it’s not an industry where things change quickly. Batteries may be an option for short-range eVTOL use cases, but for anything else, they still weigh too much compared to the amount of energy...
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