Tag: Aviation

Joby eVTOL Begins Week of eIPP Flights across North Texas

Aviation International News reports Joby Aviation has launched a week of electric air taxi demonstration flights across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, marking the first Texas operations under the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP). The flights are part of Project Nexus, a regional initiative spanning Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana designed to encompass what officials describe as a “deliberate mix of dense urban airspace, a coastal energy corridor, and rural sovereign land.”
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GE Aerospace Targets Major Fighter Engine Production Expansion

Aviation Week reports GE Aerospace is working to overcome supply chain bottlenecks and introduce broad production system improvements to accelerate fighter, trainer, and helicopter engine assembly. The transformation comes amid what the company describes as a “resurgence in demand” for engines powering advanced fourth- and fifth-generation fighters, along with a new wave of fighter trainers, prompting changes across GE facilities and its wider supply chain.
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Boeing Delivers 51 Jets in August as Dreamliner Handovers Decline

Aviation News reports Boeing delivered 51 commercial aircraft in August, with a slowdown in 787 Dreamliner handovers contributing to the decline from both July and the same period last year. Aviation News reports Boeing delivered just four Dreamliners during the month, compared with nine in August 2025, but said the lower total “was not caused by production, supply chain or certification problems.” The company continues to target between 90 and 100 Dreamliner deliveries for 2026.
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PAL-V Reaches Key EASA Certification Milestone for Flying Car

Aerotime reports Dutch flying car developer PAL-V has moved another step closer to bringing its aircraft to market after receiving European Production Organization Approval (POA) from EASA. PAL-V called the certification a “significant step toward bringing certified FlyDrive mobility solutions to market” and says it is the first FlyDrive developer within Advanced Air Mobility to secure the approval, placing it “well ahead of both American and Chinese initiatives within the sector.”
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Sceye HAPS Completes First Transpacific Flight from U.S. to Japan

Aerotime reports U.S. firm Sceye, which develops High-Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS) for communications and surveillance, announced it has completed its “first ever transpacific deployment” of the ST1, an airship-like, long-endurance vehicle. The HAPS traveled more than 15,000 km through the stratosphere from New Mexico to Japan over 13 days before conducting operational trials over Japan.
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Sceye HAPS Launch
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