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The company’s new Midwest Blade Tech facility in Lowell, Indiana, will provide services for main- and tail-rotor repair and services. It will also serve as a distributor for Rotorcraft Repair and Manufacturing’s Dragon Skin Extreme coating.

Eric Mueller, an airspace engineer who has worked on the airspace integration problem for more than 10 years—including at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Uber Elevate, and Joby—explains that the question has never been whether electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft can operate at commercial airports. The question has been how to demonstrate commercial operations to the satisfaction of the FAA, airport authorities, and air traffic control professionals who will make it work.

(Vertical magazine) – The OEM held its first Australasian Aeromedical & SAR (search-and-rescue) Workshop last month in Melbourne. The safety event included more than 45 participants from 22 organizations.

The company introduced its Expeditionary Fuel System in April at the US Army Aviation Association of America Summit in Nashville, Tennessee.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined the probable cause of the accident to be a sudden stoppage of the tail rotor for unknown reasons, which resulted in the torsional overload failure of the tail-rotor driveshaft.

(Dronelife) – Officials inaugurated a new medical drone base Apr. 29 in Borås, Västra Götaland, with operations set to begin in early May.

(Cabin Radio) – A western regional manager from the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada notes that serious injuries and fatalities in the Northwest Territories have “basically halved” over the past 25 years.

(WCVB) – A Massachusetts State Police helicopter crew assisted ground teams with locating a lost hiker Apr. 26 on Mount Washington.

(USA Today) – The company has launched a service with Flytrex’s Sky2 drone that’s designed to deliver family meals in minutes to locations within a 4-mile radius of Wylie, Texas.

(Helicopter Investor) – Kirstetter, who will begin the role May 18, succeeds Matthieu Louvot, who became CEO of Airbus Helicopters in March.