Tag Archives: Flight

Vertical Flight Technology Leaders Head to Montreal for 80th…

Vertical Flight Society logo Jaunt Air Mobility over Montreal (Jaunt graphic) VFS Forum Straight Talk Panel 2023 (VFS photo) Latest technologies featured at the world’s oldest and largest vertical flight technical event Anyone engaged in vertical flight technology — whether a new student or a world expert — will benefit …

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Türkiye’s new combat drone completes endurance flight test

Türkiye’s unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), Bayraktar TB3, tailored for the country’s newly commissioned aircraft carrier, successfully completed a long-duration flight test on Wednesday, remaining airborne for 32 hours, its developer said. According to the statement from Baykar, after its first flight on Oct. 27, Bayraktar TB3 UCAV underwent consecutive …

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UAV Navigation and Qascom complete DEGREE Project flight tes…

In a significant milestone for the DEGREE project, UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía, a leading Spanish company specializing in guidance, navigation, and control systems for RPAS/UAS, has successfully conducted flight tests to validate the performance of the EGNSS receiver developed under the project, funded by EUSPA and led by Qascom in collaboration …

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EHang’s certified EH216-S debut commercial flight demonstrat…

EHang Holdings Limited (“EHang” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: EH), the world’s leading urban air mobility (“UAM”) technology platform company, announced that the certified EH216-S pilotless passenger-carrying aerial vehicles have successfully completed debut commercial flight demonstrations in Guangzhou and Hefei respectively, marking another major step towards normalizing flights with EH216-S in …

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Airborne Range Hawks enabling more hypersonic flight tests

Last spring, the Pentagon’s Test Resource Management Center received requests from two program offices to provide support for upcoming hypersonic flight tests — one over the Atlantic Ocean and one over the Pacific. The flights would be 10 days apart. In the past, the testing community wouldn’t have been able …

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NUAIR receives civil flight authority for BVLOS operations

NUAIR® announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted a Part 107 waiver enabling remote, autonomous beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations throughout a 240 square mile airspace in upstate New York, increasing the commercial BVLOS area in New York by more than 3x or 300%. To capstone a …

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DRDO carries out successful flight trial of flying-wing UAV

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully carried out a flight trial of Autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator, an indigenous high-speed flying-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from the Aeronautical Test Range, Chitradurga in Karnataka. The successful flying demonstration of this autonomous stealth UAV is a testimony to maturity in …

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Honeywell providing advanced flight controls for AIBOT aircr…

Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) has been selected by AIBOT to provide its Compact Fly-By-Wire (cFBW) system to support AIBOT’s fully electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. This Honeywell technology will empower the next generation of aircraft avionics and create a sustainable transportation ecosystem for the future. Honeywell’s lightweight Compact Fly-By-Wire system, the …

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Zipline completes first BVLOS flight in Utah

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Zipline is one step closer to achieving its mission of building the first autonomous delivery system that serves all people equally. At 1pm on Friday, November 17, 2023, we completed our first U.S. BVLOS flight in Salt Lake City, Utah. The ability to fly without visual observers on the ground …

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