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VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
VAI Members-Only Benefit: Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) discountsVAI members can receive a significant discount on mentoring, coaching, and management associated with the FAA’s Aviation Safety Action Program through the association’s partnership with the Air Ch ...
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
Sora Aviation seeks funding for 30-passenger eVTOL shuttle(AIN) - A pair of former GKN Aerospace engineers who founded United Kingdom–based start-up Sora Aviation are leading an effort to secure funding for the S-1, an electric vertical takeoff and landi ...
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
Australian pilot to attempt new helicopter circumnavigation record(Accesswire) - Australian tech entrepreneur and pilot John-Paul Thorbjornsen is seeking to become the first helicopter pilot to cross the North Pole and the South Pole and circumnavigate the globe ...
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
Engine failure leads to emergency landing in Zambia sewer pond(ZimLive.com) - A helicopter pilot made an emergency landing after the engine failed on Aug. 20 near Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park outside Livingstone.
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
Arizona city begins public safety helicopter operations (VIDEO)(KSAZ) - The Peoria Police Department and the Peoria Fire-Medical Department have launched the city’s first Aviation Unit with a new Bell 505.
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
Proposed EASA AD: Airbus EC175B helicoptersThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is accepting comments through Sep. 18, 2024, on this proposed airworthiness directive (PAD), ATA 32–Landing Gear–Nose Landing Gear A-Frame/Airframe ...
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
FAA to provide $20 million for US air traffic control tower upgradesThe FAA is seeking applications through Sep. 18, 2024, for its FY 2025 Airport Infrastructure Grant program, which will provide $20 million for air traffic control tower improvement projects acros ...
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
FAA issues special conditions for Bell 525 fly-by-wire systemThe special conditions contain additional standards to establish a level of safety equivalent to existing airworthiness standards, as the Bell 525’s digital fly-by-wire flight control system is no ...
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
Vertical Aerospace advances VX4 eVTOL flight testing (VIDEO)(AIN) - The company recently started test flights with a second VX4 electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) prototype with partners that include Honeywell, GKN Aerospace, and Leonardo.
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
FAA issues new rule on supplemental restraint systemsThis FAA final rule, which takes effect Oct. 21, 2024, prohibits the use of supplemental restraint systems in civil aircraft unless operators meet certain requirements for ensuring passenger and c ...
