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Future Flight - September 2023

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Future Flight Description:

Forlegger: Rail-Link-Communications-cc

Kategori: Flying_Aviation

Språk: English

Hyppighet: 11 Issues/Year

Since the main publication has become far too large, we have decided to publish a second monthly aviation magazine that will specifically deal with all futuristic flight matters such as Drones, Urban Mobility and eVTOLs, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), Electric Aviation, Hydrogen Power, Space Flight developments, Supersonic Flight and many other innovations within aviation.

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Future Flight will specifically deal with all futuristic flight matters such as Drones, Urban Mobility and eVTOLs, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), Electric Aviation, Hydrogen Power, Space Flight developments, Supersonic Flight and many other innovations within aviation.

Bristow Group - secures early deliveries of five Elroy Air Chaparral cargo drones

Houston-based Bristow Group, which achieved its start as an international operator of helicopters but now bills itself as a vertical flight solutions provider, is looking to speed up the introduction of new vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft to its fleet.

3 mins

FAA approves - BVLOS operations for three UAS companies

Recently three United States companies received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authorisation to fly unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) where their operators cannot see them.

4 mins

The US Army's LIDS: A sure shot against drones

Raytheon's KURFS radars and Coyote® effectors have teamed up to defeat evolving, proliferating unmanned aircraft systems threat. The KuRFS radar and Coyote® effector deliver essential detect and defeat capabilities in the defence against unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS, also known as drones.

3 mins

DroneX DroneX - Tradeshow & Conference is returning to the ExCeL London on 26 and 27 September 2023.

The show brings together the key innovators, pioneers, suppliers and buyers from across four key sectors who will all come together to provide the most comprehensive show on record including:

1 mins

uAvionix and Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma complete first US flights

Operating at the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) Emerging Aviation Technology Center, uAvionix completed the first true Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flight in non-segregated airspace using aviation protected C-Band in the United States.

3 mins

W Autonomous Systems (WAS) makes history landing on Royal Navy carrier at sea

A pilotless plane has flown on and off a Royal Navy aircraft carrier for the first time. The W Autonomous Systems (WAS) drone flew from the Lizard Peninsula and onto the deck of HMS Prince of Wales off the Cornish coast, delivered supplies and then flew back in a milestone flight which points the way to the future of naval aviation.

2 mins

AMPAIRE FLIES hybrid-electric Cessna to Alaska in milestone flight

On 13 August Ampaire revealed that following a 3,400-mile series of flights from Southern California, its hybrid-electric aircraft successfully landed at the Fairbanks International Airport (FAI). The EEL is a platform for the development of scalable technology and certification processes.

2 mins

Bristow to introduce Volocopter air taxis to US via a new partnership

The first commercial electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) air taxi flights will probably not be made by Joby Aviation, Archer Aviation, or Boeing's Wisk Aero. In fact, they are most likely to come from a firm with zero presence in the US market, at least, not yet.

3 mins

EASA introduces eVTOL policy changes

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published new proposed regulations governing the operation of vertical-take-offand-landing (VTOL) aircraft, including drones and eVTOL air taxis, in Europe's cities.

2 mins

EHang unmanned aircraft cloud system approved by CAA

EHang, an autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) technology platform company, announced that its EHang Unmanned Aircraft Cloud System (UACS) has been officially approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) for UACS trial operations.

2 mins

One-seat eVTOL needs no pilot certificate to fly

There are thousands of persons who have the flying bug but lack the time or energy to set aside hundreds of hours needed for a pilot's licence. But if they have the money, a personal aircraft for which the pilot needs no certification to fly just came closer to entering production.

4 mins

Aviation's hydrogen shift: Exploring test and validation for hydrogen propulsion

Asourclimateworsens, decarbonisation becomes an increasingly pressing imperative for aircraft, manufacturers. Coventry University and engineering services company FEV co-created the Centre for Advanced Low-Carbon Systems to develop the varied propulsion technologies this endeavour demands.

5 mins

Pipistrel flies liquid hydrogen demonstrator

On Friday 8 September 2023 Textron subsidiary Pipistrel Aircraft flew the first piloted liquid hydrogen-powered electric aircraft. The HEAVEN project HY4 demonstrator took off from Maribor, Slovenia with two pilots onboard and 'demonstrated safe and efficient operation throughout multiple flight tests, the company said.

3 mins

NASA astronaut sets spaceflight milestone

On Wednesday 13 September 2023 during an Earth-to-Space call at 12h05 EDT, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy spoke with agency astronaut Frank Rubio about his record-breaking number of consecutive days in space.

2 mins

Testing of Boom technology demonstrator proceeding apace

Boom Supersonic, the American company about the highly speculative business of designing and producing a supersonic airliner dubbed the Boom Overture, has reportedly achieved a number of milestones vis-à-vis the development of its XB-1 Baby Boom, a one-third-scale technology demonstrator devised to vet technologies salient to the planned airliner.