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The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) in California has purchased two new helicopters from the Lockheed Martin company to support firefighting, rescue, and air medical operations.

The chipmaker will partner with Joby to develop an industrial-grade platform to power physical artificial intelligence applications. The agreement will also advance Joby’s Superpilot autonomous flight system for military and civil operators.

The Louisiana-based maintenance and completions provider is pursuing an FAA supplemental type certificate to install its air medical interior on the H160. Separately, Metro has ordered a dozen H140s from Airbus.

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(MLive) – A US Coast Guard (USCG) helicopter crew rescued three people and a cat from a boat that ran aground Oct. 27 in Northern Michigan.

(WBTS) – An NBC 10 Boston helicopter crew cited mechanical issues before making an emergency landing Oct. 28 near Logan International Airport (KBOS) in Boston, Massachusetts.

(The Kathmandu Post) – An Altitude Air helicopter skidded on snow while landing Oct. 29 at the Lobuche helipad in Nepal, close to a Mount Everest base camp.

Nashville, Tennessee–based Vanderbilt LifeFlight, Children’s Nebraska in Omaha, and LifeFlight Eagle of Kansas City, Missouri, will partner with Metro starting next year.

The collaboration involves using Ramco aviation software to support the life-cycle management of The ePlane Co.’s flagship product, the e200X electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

Liebherr-Aerospace will supply the electromechanical actuation system for Wisk Aero’s Gen 6 autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.