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Newly released video from Horizon Aircraft shows the company’s half-scale Cavorite X5 eVTOL technology demonstrator conducting its first transition flight tests at the ACE Climatic Wind Tunnel in Oshawa, Ontario.
The Montreal-based start-up, which is developing a design for a piloted vehicle that could carry seven passengers up to 150 miles, is looking to select an electric propulsion system supplier.
The U.S. House of Representatives' consideration of the 2023 FAA Reauthorization Bill has prompted pointed discussion of whether the country's air safety regulator is fit to certify and regulate new types of aircraft.
The country's Civil Aviation Authority has also confirmed that it will adopt the Special Condition VTOL means of compliance developed by the European Aviation Safety Agency.
The company has reported technical progress in areas such as electric batteries, as well as growing numbers of provisional sales commitments for the LiliumJet.
ZeroAvia's latest efforts to ensure hydrogen-powered airliners can operate are focused on Skellefteå Airport in northeast Sweden, while electric aircraft developer Heart has a new partnership in the Baltic Sea Åland islands.
The companies have launched a partnership to develop advanced air mobility services in the Indian subcontinent, building on current helicopter operations.
Rotorcraft business leaders told the Helicopter Investor conference that new vertical lift and short-takeoff and landing vehicles could have a positive impact.
Blueskeye AI, a U.K.-based software company specializing in facial analysis using artificial intelligence, recently received a £20,000 award to investigate how facial sensing technology could glean information about human behavior in aircraft cockpits.
The European start-up has unveiled plans for a 40-passenger, tandem tilt-wing design that could also be offered as a freight-carrying variant called the SkyTruck.