Questions persist after 737 Max recertification
It remains to be seen if US airlines can convince the flying public that it is safe to fly on Boeing 737 Max jets after the end of their flight ban.
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Porsche Partners with Boeing on Flying Taxis
German automaker Porsche is forming a team with Boeing to analyze demand for vertical takeoff flying taxis designed to ferry people around cities and over gridlock traffic as it aims to stay in step with the next generation of travel. Porsche Engineering Services and Studio FA Porsche will help Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences develop and test a prototype electric
Read moreFAA Grants First Drone Airline Approval For UPS
Hospitals will soon have greater access to drone deliveries of healthcare supplies from UPS Flight Forward now that the Atlanta-based company gained the first-ever drone airline certificated from the US Federal Aviation Administration.
Read moreCrash victim families seek new type certification for Boeing 737 Max
Relatives of 737 Max crash victims want regulators to re-certificate the troubled Boeing narrowbody as a completely new aircraft, and only after crash investigations are complete.
Read moreLockheed Martin Adds Momentum For Supersonic Travel
Lockheed Martin is considering how to build a commercial supersonic aircraft that would draw on the noise-reduction technology it is testing with NASA.
Read moreHoneywell, Safran offer sky taxi commonalities
Honeywell and Safran, two companies in the Uber Elevate partnership, are striking deals with airframers to mass produce parts for eVTOL concepts with the aim of lowering manufacturing costs and easing their path to certification for passenger flights.
Read moreBoeing Invests in Aerion Supersonic Business Jet
Boeing will provide financial, engineering and industrial resources for Aerion Supersonic to support the startup’s goal of building and test flying a business plane in 2023 that could fly at Mach 1.4 and cut hours off transoceanic flights.
Read moreBoeing Begins Test flights of air taxi for uber
Boeing engineers at an airfield in Manassas, Virginia, are testing the autonomous flight of an air taxi Uber aims to make available on its mobile application around 2023 to ferry people between cities and suburbs.
Read moreAireon to Offer Flight surveillance through Iridium Satellites
Air traffic controllers will be able to get updates from airliners flying over oceans every second when a constellation of Iridium NEXT satellites reaches its final position to relay aircraft location and velocity data worldwide.
Read moreCockpit Voice Recorder from Lion Air Flight 610 Crash Found
Aviation safety officials in Indonesia announced on Monday that divers in the Java Sea retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from Lion Air Flight 610, a discovery that could indicate what pilots did just before the crash on Oct. 29 when 189 people died.
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