Aviation Week reports that The Boeing Company is shifting its 787 Dreamliner focus “to wiping out a 120-airframe stored backlog while steadily increasing production from the current rate of about one per month.”
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United Airlines Puts Down Deposit on Archer Aviation eVTOLs
The Wall Street Journal reports that United Airlines has made the first actual cash commitment to an eVTOL company, giving Archer Aviation $10 million for 100 electric aircraft intended to operate as taxis. The industry is still awaiting Federal Aviation Administration movement on things like pilot requirements and how the planes would be worked into the airspace.
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