Aviation news

The annual National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) convention and exhibition is on this week at Orlando, Florida. The event is the biggest business aviation event in the world and all the manufacturers of business jets, equipment and services are there. Here are some of the headlines: Cessna is revamping its bigger Citation jet range with […]

How will air taxis and electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft fit into the highly regulated world of aviation? That’s a question facing regulators as more and more companies, including major aircraft makers such as Airbus, Boeing, Embraer and Bell, declare their interest. Now the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has opened a public […]

The UK’s Coventry University is playing a part in Uber’s plan to develop UberAir, its flying taxi service using electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing vehicles. (eVTOL). Coventry University has been named as a collaborative partner by Uber, examining the safety of the proposed aircraft Academics and students from Coventry University’s research institute for Future Transport […]

NASA is to work with Uber to explore concepts and technologies for future air transport in cities – Uber’s ‘Elevate’ project. Uber will share its plans for implementing an urban aviation rideshare network, while NASA will use the latest in airspace management computer modelling and simulation to assess the impacts of small aircraft – from delivery […]

The US start-up financed by Google co-founder Larry Page, Kitty Hawk, has announced its first product, Cora. It’s a self-flying, all-electric, vertical take-off and landing air taxi – and it’s about to start trials in New Zealand with the full cooperation and support of the NZ government. Watch Kitty Hawk’s video of Cora here. “After […]

+VIDEO The Volocopter electric multi-rotor helicopter is to enter trials in Dubai with the government’s Road and Transport Authority. The tests will start in late 2017 using the second generation Volocopter, the 2X, as a self-flying air taxi. “The test will start in the fourth quarter of 2017, and the project has been scheduled to […]

+VIDEO The German Lilium Jet electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) two-seat prototype made its first flight today. The Eagle prototype performed a range of complex manoeuvres including the mid-air transition from hover mode to wing-borne forward flight, said Lilium. Here’s the video of the flight… “Seeing the Lilium Jet take to the sky and […]

More staff, more aircraft, more training… business is doing well at Perth Airport after ACS Aviation took over as the operator last November. In eight months since, the business has grown from thirteen permanent members of staff to twenty. The extra staff are in every department, including flying instructors, airport agents and administrative, engineering and operations […]