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Boeing Funds Wisk Aero: $450 Million  Leading Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) company Wisk has secured $450 million in funding from The Boeing Company. This, combined with previous funding, makes Wisk one of the most well-funded AAM companies in the world and highlights the strength of its partnership with Boeing. This …

Zehra Akbar is the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations for Boeing Venture SkyGrid, provider of airspace management services for commercial drone operators, enterprises, and aviation authorities.  SkyGrid FlightControl™ is an all-in-one drone app, designed to automate every part of the flight process.  Akbar explains how AI, Blockchain, and a …

In a continuing exploration of the concept of a flying car,  Boeing has signed a letter of agreement to explore joint relationships with luxury car manufacturer Porsche.  Here is a concept video published by World News that shows some idea of what that might ultimately look like. Flying cars – …

Boeing announced last week that it has successfully completed the first outdoor flight tests of their experimental cargo air vehicle (CAV). “In a safe and controlled environment, the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully took off, hovered, transitioned to forward flight and then landed safely,” says …

Boeing — the world’s largest aerospace company – is teaming up with AI-firm SparkCognition to launch SkyGrid – a new startup focusing on urban aerial mobility. The Texas-based company will develop a software platform to ensure the safe, secure integration of autonomous cargo and passenger air vehicles in the global …

Boeing subsidiary Insitu has revealed that its latest advancements in High Accuracy Photogrammetry (HAP) are pushing the theoretical limits of aerial photography at altitude. Last month Insitu’s latest prototype carried a HAP payload that can capture images accurate to within five centimeters (cm) horizontally and 10cm vertically. Insitu describes this …

Aerospace big Boeing has right now introduced an funding – through Boeing HorizonX Ventures – in Matternet. The Menlo Park startup has made notable progress pioneering drone deliveries in city environments, and it seems to be as if Boeing needs a bit of the pie. Matternet’s expertise is an finish to finish drone supply …

Enterprise drone operations software program specialist Kittyhawk has introduced a collaboration with Jeppesen, a Boeing subsidiary. The pair will start working in the direction of providing digital airspace authorization immediately from the FAA by way of the Kittyhawk platform. Kittyhawk and Jeppesen are aiming for approval from the FAA to …

Insitu’s Mobile Situational Awareness Unit Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, has moved the idea of authorized BVLOS flight ahead a step, with their profitable demonstration of a ground-based airspace situational consciousness system for drones. The system addresses a serious problem for regulators and drone operators: detecting close …

Credit: U.S. Marine Corp A brand new U.S. Marine Corps challenge reveals promise as the following step in drone evolution – remodeling surplus army helicopters into autonomous drones. Last week, the USMC accomplished a profitable demonstration of the Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System, a challenge that transformed a decommissioned UH-1H Huey …