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(USA Today) – Experts from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University discuss how extreme heat can ground flights, including helicopter air medical services, following the Jul. 6 death of a motorcyclist in California’s Death Valley National Park where a rescue crew could not fly due to temperatures topping 120°F.

(WOOD) – A helicopter crew from US Coast Guard Air Station Detroit assisted with the rescue of nine boaters from Lake Erie in two separate Jul. 6 incidents.

Chicago, Illinois–based Jet Support Services, Inc. (JSSI) has appointed Alexis Javkin as executive VP of maintenance and supplier management.

Global single-engine helicopter sales have stabilized on a positive trend for the first time since late 2022, according to data from Aero Asset’s 2024 Half Year Heli Market Trends report.

This year’s European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Annual Safety Review features a new chapter that specifically examines the safety performance of uncrewed aircraft systems and drones.

This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 62–Main Rotor–Control Rod Assembly/Pitch Link Assembly–Inspection, becomes effective Jul. 22, 2024.

(Urban Air Mobility) – Nonprofit MASC has launched its Setouchi Community AAM (advanced air mobility) Infrastructure 2028 project, which seeks to establish an AAM ecosystem between the cities of Osaka and Kita Kyushu.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires visually inspecting certain glide slope antennas and antenna coaxial connectors for the presence of any sealant, cleaning parts and removing any sealant, and performing an external glide slope acceptance test procedure, becomes effective Aug. 13, 2024.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires inspecting the bowls of the right-hand and left-hand fuel filters for any cracks and seepage, takes effect Aug. 13, 2024.

Air Methods operator Native Air Ambulance is now providing whole blood on every helicopter air medical transport from its base near Winston Field Airport (KSNK) in Snyder.