The reviving fortunes of the commercial helicopter market, powered by renewed oil and gas demand, coupled with excitement about the deployment of drones and, eventually, eVTOLs dominated Helicopter Investor’s two-day conference in London earlier...
March was a great month for eVTOLs. Only last week, electric aircraft pioneer Vertical Aerospace claimed the world’s largest pre-order book by value in the eVTOL market totalling $5.4bn. So, perhaps now is a...
In 1987 the Metropolitan Police released dashcam footage of officers trying to get a liver from Stansted Airport to a hospital in the centre of London within 35 minutes. With the help of motorbike...
Depending on where you are reading this, there might be reasons to revel in the easing of restrictions. Maybe you are on a summer holiday with the sound of the waves and a cocktail....
What’s the fastest and most efficient way to develop autonomous aircraft – to drop the pilot from the outset or keep one on board, at least initially, to keep “skin in the game”. The developments in...
According to Freedom of Information requests submitted by Sky News, reported drone incidents in the UK have increased by around 40% over the past two years. In a post-Gatwick and post-Heathrow climate, however,...
Airbus’s drone-services subsidiary Airbus Aerial will be working with the FAA to develop ‘beyond visible line of sight’ technologies. The FAA’s unmanned aircraft integration program (IPP), spread over three years, has been developed by...
NASA will be sending an unmanned helicopter to Mars on the next Mars Rover mission in 2020. A small autonomous rotorcraft will be travelling 54.6 million kilometres to the red planet along with the...
One of the most-pernickety regulations hampering the commercial drone market from taking off right now are the beyond visual line-of-sight regulations, or BVLOS for short. Companies such as Amazon have been promising a future...