Embedded AvionicsAiRanger Unmanned Aircraft Gets Sagetech’s Detect and Avoid System Sagetech Avionics and American Aerospace ISR (AA ISR) are partnering to integrate Sagetech’s Detect and Avoid (DAA) system on AA ISR’s AiRanger unmanned aircraft system (UAS), according to a March 10 press…
Embedded AvionicsUS Navy T-45 Trainers to Receive New Smart Oxygen Concentrators The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded a contract to Cobham Mission Systems for the supply of new GGU-25 oxygen smart concentrators that will be part of a fleet-wide systems upgrade…
Air TaxiHoneywell is Developing a New Clean Energy Turbogenerator Honeywell is developing a new turbogenerator that will run on biofuel for hybrid-electric aircraft and is said to be 2.5 times more powerful than their previously developed models, according to a March…
Air TaxiRolls-Royce to Build Electric Propulsion System for Vertical Aerospace Rolls-Royce is building an electrical power system for Vertical Aerospace’s VA-X4 electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the company announced in a March 9 press release. The electrical propulsion system will…
Air TaxiWhat Can eVTOLs Learn from Autonomous Cars? More electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft companies are moving closer to certification and deployment and experts in the industry are looking to autonomous cars to predict the future of this…
MilitaryFormer Air Force Acquisition Secretary Will Roper Joins Volansi Will Roper, the former assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology, and logistics, is joining drone maker Volansi’s board of directors, the company announced on March 3. Roper will assist…
Air TaxiAeroMobil Marks Milestone Toward Certification with Flight Tests AeroMobil conducted successful flight tests for its flying car including achieving top and stall speeds, take off ability within 1,300 feet and climb rate of over 1,200 feet per minute, the company…
UnmannedAir Force Looks to Hybrid Electric Solution for eVTOL and UAS Energy Concerns The Air Force is investing in LiquidPiston’s X-Engine technology to create a hybrid-electric propulsion system to power emerging technologies like unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and orbs, the company announced on March 4. …