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VAI Weekly
September 16, 2024
India’s DGCA issues guidance for VTOL type certification
The India Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DCGA) has published guidance materials related to the type certification process for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft.
FAA AD: Bell Textron Canada 505 helicopters
VAI Weekly
September 16, 2024
FAA AD: Bell Textron Canada 505 helicopters
This FAA airworthiness directive (AD) takes effect Oct. 21, 2024. It requires Bell 505 operators to install a grommet around the sump drain port-fitting airframe hole after investigators discovere ...
FAA seeks comments on eVTOL vertiport design standards
VAI Weekly
September 16, 2024
FAA seeks comments on eVTOL vertiport design standards
The FAA’s Office of Airports is seeking comments through Oct. 18 on an engineering brief update on vertiport design that will provide interim standards for aviation facilities with electric vertic ...
FAA AD: Airbus SA.330J helicopters
VAI Weekly
September 16, 2024
FAA AD: Airbus SA.330J helicopters
This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires a one-time visual inspection to determine the correct assembly of each sliding flange installed on each main-rotor gearbox coupling, becomes e ...
Webinars
September 12, 2024
Best of VAI@Work Webinars: Meet the Cal Guard Pilots Who Rescued 400 Wildfire Victims
For our Sep. 12, 2024, webinar, we dove into our archives to highlight one of the most dynamic stories we’ve heard during our four years of producing our webinar series. We revisited an October 20 ...
VAI Weekly
September 12, 2024
Recognizing Safety Excellence: Over The Top, Ltd.
Queenstown, New Zealand–based Over The Top has received the auspicious VAI Operator Safety Award, which recognizes the company’s exceptional commitment to safety and its achievement of accident-fr ...
Students from Maryland, Georgia win VFS design competition
VAI Weekly
September 12, 2024
Students from Maryland, Georgia win VFS design competition
The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) has announced this year’s winners of its student design competition. The University of Maryland’s Huma design took first place in the graduate category and Georgi ...
Lilium to add industry veteran to board of directors
VAI Weekly
September 12, 2024
Lilium to add industry veteran to board of directors
Lilium plans to appoint Philippe Balducchi, CEO of European defense industry provider KNDS Group, as a nonexecutive member of its board of directors. The appointment is subject to the approval of ...
VAI Weekly
September 12, 2024
USMC tiltrotor pilots train with USAF in South Korea
Pilots with the US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron 165 trained with US Air Force (USAF) landing-zone controllers and safety officers on Sep. 5 at Kunsan Air Base at Gunsan Ai ...
VAI Weekly
September 12, 2024
Archer Aviation looks toward horizon as Midnight eVTOL advances
(Simple Flying) - Bryan Bernhard, Archer Aviation’s chief growth and infrastructure officer, provides an update on the flight-testing process for the company’s Midnight electric vertical takeoff a ...