ATP Flight School and Breeze Airways Announce Breeze Embark Program
ATP Flight School has formed a hiring partnership with Breeze Airways, providing ATP graduates with a streamlined pathway to a First Officer position with the airline.
Certified Aviation Earns FAA Diamond Award of Excellence 6 Years in a Row
CAS Components was awarded the 2021 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) AMT Diamond Award of Excellence for the sixth consecutive time
HyPoint Cuts Ribbon at Discovery Park in Bid to Advance Zero-Emission Hydrogen Aviation in the UK and Abroad
Post Views: 42 HyPoint, the company developing zero carbon-emission turbo air-cooled hydrogen fuel cell systems for aviation and urban air mobility, today opened the doors to its new Discovery Park location in Sandwich aimed at accelerating hydrogen innovation in the UK. The new flagship location, roughly two hours southeast of London, will house the company’s…
This solar-powered British drone will surveil from the stratosphere
Post Views: 50 PHASA-35 stands for “Persistent High Altitude Solar Aircraft.” The number 35 is its wingspan in meters: that’s 115 feet, as wide as those of a Boeing 737. But the carbon fiber aircraft weighs a mere 330 pounds, which is one three-thousandth the weight of the 737. The drone is a high-altitude long-endurance…
Watch a C-130 cargo plane grab a drone out of the sky
Post Views: 45 In the sky above the desert, a drone mated with a C-130, a cargo plane that was acting as an airborne aircraft carrier. Once its landing hook attached to the C-130’s recovery latch, the drone’s wing rotated 90 degrees, becoming flush with its body, so that it could fit within the cargo…
Inspired by a seed, this rotating drone will make your head spin
Post Views: 66 Created by a team at the Singapore University of Technology & Design, this new seed-inspired one-wing drone is named F-SAM. It is a type of monocopter, or a helicopter with only one rotating blade. Engineers first developed a monocopter in 1913, with testing in 1915, but a problem arises in trying to…
Poland’s new anti-aircraft system will hit stealth targets at supersonic speeds
Post Views: 119 “Flying at supersonic speeds, CAMM missiles can destroy modern air threats including stealth aircraft and high-speed missiles,” declared the British government, in a release. “Each CAMM family missile is equipped with an advanced active radar seeker that can see even the smallest, fastest and stealthiest targets through the worst weather and the…
The 100 greatest innovations of 2021
Post Views: 62 Across all our 10 categories, gains in efficiency showcased our collective drive to optimize our world. A new hair-washing system creates a luxurious lather with less water, a spin on steelmaking spits out a mere fraction of the carbon, a clever AI plans airline routes for maximum efficiency, and a simple riff…
This new Air Force helmet won’t be such a pain in the neck for pilots
Post Views: 70 Pilots of fixed-wing Air Force aircraft have been wearing the same helmet for nearly 40 years, but that could soon change with a new brain bucket that’s lighter, more comfortable, more adaptable and better ventilated than its predecessor, the HGU-55/P. “It’s been 40 years since we’ve had the 55/P, so there’s been…
The most high-flying aerospace innovations of 2021
Post Views: 74 Augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and autonomy are just some of the technologies that elevated our air and space game in 2021. AI algorithms are helping route aircraft in more efficient ways, virtual enemies are training pilots mid-flight, and autonomous wingmen are scouting the skies ahead. Meanwhile, up in space, a NASA probe…
The most compelling military tech stories from the land, air, and sea this year
Post Views: 52 Microsoft inked an enormous, multi-billion-dollar deal to deliver high-tech augmented reality goggles for the US Army. The gadget is based on Microsoft’s HoloLens, although the Army refers to it as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS. The devices are a head-up display with night-vision tech and more, and while they promise…
Why 5G has airlines so spooked
Post Views: 63 On the other side of this issue, CTIA, the lobbying group representing the wireless industry, refuted some of those claims in an electronic filing sent to the FAA. The CTIA called such analysis of the 5G operations “flawed” and said nearly 40 other countries are already using this spectrum without issue, including…
Google Earth caught a $2 billion stealth bomber on candid camera
Post Views: 53 “It’s pretty funny, you’ve got a stealth bomber flying over a farmer’s house, into his field, it looks like he’s a crop-duster,” said the host of My Garden Channel, a YouTube channel that’s usually dedicated to gardening and plant care. But on Monday, the channel posted a video showing how viewers can…
Mojave, the new Predator drone, is built to navigate rugged terrain
Post Views: 43 “We are providing the ground force with a long-endurance, armed overwatch UAS [unmanned aerial system] that can quickly reload weapons at austere sites, located close to the conflict zone,” General Atomics aeronautical systems CEO Linden Blue said in a release. The Mojave comes 14 years after the Reaper entered service, and 27…
Our favorite science long reads of 2021
Post Views: 47 “The CDC has named ‘missed or delayed diagnosis’ as a key factor behind maternal deaths, and cardiologists and OB-GYNs admit that PPCM is often misdiagnosed or ignored. Symptoms like shortness of breath, extreme fatigue, and swelling in the feet and legs can mimic normal pregnancy discomfort, causing patients and doctors to miss…
