Orlando Moves Ahead With FAA-Guided eVTOL Demonstration Pad
Orlando International Airport is taking a practical step into advanced air mobility, and the significance is less about futuristic marketing…
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Electra EL9 Reaches FAA G-1 Certification Basis Milestone
Electra’s latest FAA milestone is important for a simple reason: it moves the EL9 program out of the rule-setting stage…
Horizon Taps BETA Flight Controls for Cavorite X7 Certification
The fact that Horizon has chosen flight control computers from BETA Technologies for their Cavorite X7 is more relevant in…
Walden Robotics Pushes Learning Robots Into Live Factory Work
Walden Robotics has emerged with a familiar promise in industrial automation: make robots useful beyond tightly scripted, fenced-off tasks. The…
ForeFlight Emergency Glide Mode Reframes Engine-Out Decisions in the Cockpit
Uncommanded loss of engine power in general aviation is normally seen as an airmanship issue: keep best glide speed, refer…
Self-Healing Aircraft Composites Still Face a Hard Certification Path
Recently, the topic of self-healing composites became once again relevant for aerospace technologies for an obvious reason the primary mode…
Electra EL9 Reaches Key FAA Certification Basis Milestone
Electra tells that the G-1 Issue Paper for its EL9, a nine-passenger hybrid-electric aircraft, has been closed by the FAA,…
Starpipe Could Be the Ground System That Sets Starship Cadence
A potential bottleneck of Starship’s future launch rates might not be found in the skies but rather right under the…
Joby Advances eVTOL Certification With Fog and Propulsion-Loss Test
What stands out most about the most recent flight test by Joby Aviation is not the spectacle, but rather the…
Battery Safety Now Depends on More Than Certification
For the U.S. battery developers, integrators and operators, certification is still relevant. However, as batteries become a greater part of…
Air Force Tests Paired Robots for Aircraft Inspection Workflows
An upcoming U.S. Air Force evaluation at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex is worth paying attention to, but not…
FAA Sets EL9 Certification Basis for Hybrid-Electric Commuter Aircraft
Electra has achieved a significant FAA milestone with the EL9, but the true importance of the accomplishment is not in…
Thermal Management and AI Reframe Combustion Engine Longevity
A July 12 technology item by Richard Truett highlights a specific engineering approach to a general industry challenge: extending the…
U.S. Precision Machining Faces New Tooling and Abrasives Pressure
The precision machining is associated with spindle accuracy, thermal stability, software of machine tool and ability to maintain extreme tolerances….
Air Force Depot Pushes Multi-Robot Aircraft Inspection Workflow Forward
The Phase Three contract awarded by the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex on-site demonstrates the relevance of a specific unmanned-systems…
Army Evaluates CF3D for Repeatable Missile Composite Production
A new Continuous Composites program for the US Army is trying to answer a manufacturing question much more significant than…
FAA Pushes U.S.-Europe Rule Alignment to Speed Jet Certification
There has been a notable change introduced to the process of certification of new commercial airplanes in the United States…
Phase3D targets volume metal AM inspection with standardized production
Phase3D is going through a transition period in relation to the operations connected to the metal additive inspection business. Namely,…