Tue, Mar 02, 2021
Aerospace News
Tue, Mar 02, 2021
Airborne-Unmanned 03.02.21: Falck-Kitty Hawk, Drone Film Festival, Arcturus
Also: ERAU Electric Plane, Collier Trophy, Air Race E Expands, Hydrogen Powered Propulsion
Emergency response and healthcare company Falck has announced a collaboration with Kitty Hawk. The companies will establish a joint innovation platform creating a framework for Project Heaviside, Kitty's Hawk's latest high performance aircraft, to be used in emergency response operations. The new collaboration adds to Falck's drone initiative, Vertical, which aims to assess the potential of drone technology in the prehospital and ambulance services of the future. With Kitty Hawk's Project Heaviside, the company plans to test and evaluate new technologies on a large scale, making emergency healthcare more accessible and affordable. A new film festival highlighting creative content made by aerial filmmakers is set to debut in Southern California this March. The inaugural Southern California Drone Film Festival is set for March 6, 2021 and marks the only event of its kind in California. T
Mon, Mar 01, 2021
Airborne 03.01.21: ERAU e-Plane, Flying Leatherneck, Citation Excel Upgrade
Also: FAA Vaccine Update, New Glenn Schedule, Collier Trophy Nominees, Van’s Aircraft
After nearly four years of perseverance, the Embry-Riddle's Eagle Flight Research Center (EFRC) team is celebrating a milestone in its electric propulsion research: its Diamond HK-36 completed a successful taxi test exclusively on electrical power. Dubbed the eSpirit of St. Louis — in honor of Charles Lindbergh’s notion of balance between aviation and the environment — the aircraft serves as a testbed for students to gain experience on the interdisciplinary aspects of mixing electrical engineering skills with aerospace engineering. On April 1, 2021, the United States Marine Corps intends to permanently close MCAS Miramar’s Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum. The future of the artifacts, research library, and aircraft, which belong to the Marine Corps, is unknown. We have been told that the closure is for financial reasons, even though the Flying Leatherneck His