KLM & ZeroAvia project: sustainable air transport
KLM & ZeroAvia project: Aviation has to change, and the priority is to find a viable, effective and safe alternative to the current fuel to make a gigantic industry responsible…
Heart Aerospace and the hybrid aircraft, take-off in 2025
The first step in exploring hybrid air transport is the plan of Heart Aerospace, a Swedish company that has just unveiled Experimental 1, also known as the Heart X1. This…
International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies: a call for collective action
The International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, observed annually on September 7, is a global initiative to raise awareness about air pollution and its impacts on health, the…
CrowdStrike rejects Delta Air Lines claims over flight woes
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – CrowdStrike on Sunday rejected a claim by Delta Air Lines that it should be blamed for flight disruptions following a July 19 global outage…
Southwest Air, Archer Aviation work on plans to fly air taxis in California
By David Shepardson (Reuters) – Southwest Airlines and Archer Aviation said on Friday they have agreed to develop operational plans for electric air taxi networks built by Archer at California…
Uber pays US car owners to switch to other transport modes for five weeks
By Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) – Uber will pay $1,000 in credits to certain commuters in the U.S. and Canada who ditch their cars for five weeks in favor of public…
World’s largest direct air capture plant switched on
The world’s most significant direct air capture (DAC) plant has been operating in Iceland. It is called Mammoth and was built by Climeworks, a Swiss startup that launched the first commercial DAC-based facility, Orca,…
Pathfinder 1, Sergei Brin’s electric airship is about to take off
Huge and lighter than a plane, the aircraft aims to deliver humanitarian aid wherever needed. Waymo, Verily, Sidewalk, Calico, X (not the former Twitter) and many others were projects kept…
US proposes training, pilot certification rules for air taxis
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. aviation regulator said on Wednesday it was proposing comprehensive training and pilot certification rules for flying taxis, electric vertical takeoff and landing…
U.S. will not extend deadline on critical 5G airplane retrofit
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration does not plan to extend a July 1 deadline for airlines to upgrade airplane altimeters, the measuring instruments that are crucial…