Developing uncrewed R44s for crop-spraying

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Yves Le Marquand

2 Oct 24

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Separating the wheat from the chaff is how we harvest over 750m tonnes of the stuff every year. Primarily done by combine harvester, the machine…

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Wind of no change: Exploring the promise of turbulence cancelling technology

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Yves Le Marquand

16 Sep 24

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As the Earth warms, turbulence is becoming a greater risk to aircraft. There were over 65,000 recorded cases of turbulence last year, with incidents increasing…

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Seattle startup bets rapid iteration is key to clean sheet aircraft design

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Yves Le Marquand

5 Sep 24

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Outbound Aerospace, a Seattle-based startup, is leveraging advances in 3D printing technology to accelerate development of its aircraft programme.  Partly emerged from stealth mode and…

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Signals of opportunity could provide alternative to GPS

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Yves Le Marquand

14 Aug 24

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What do the eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, Black Sea, Norway, Finland, South China Sea, and Russia all have in common? They’ve all been or continue…

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Are digitised, affordable ATC systems a possibility for all?

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Yves Le Marquand

8 Aug 24

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For decades air traffic control operations have largely relied upon paper flight strips and the sharp focus of controllers. These flight strips, small pieces of…

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‘It takes time to normalise, then all of a sudden it is hard to remember life without it.’

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Yves Le Marquand

1 Aug 24

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Crisalion Mobility’s Manuel Heredia on the firm’s vision for the eVTOL industry and the red flags it faces on its journey to commercialisation. In the…

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AAMbulance: ERC’s plans for medical eVTOLs

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Yves Le Marquand

31 Jul 24

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In aircraft engineer circles the ‘What came first, the chicken or the egg?’ conundrum is more commonly referred to as ‘What came first, the aircraft or the…

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Vertical Aerospace given more control by UK regulator

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Yves Le Marquand

12 Jul 24

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This week Vertical Aerospace was granted more control over conducting tasks related to its type certification programme when the UK regulator expanded the scope of…

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Better Futures: Helping small enterprises to adopt AI

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Yves Le Marquand

10 Jul 24

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What percentage of manufacturing companies do you think have adopted artificial intelligence (AI) in some way to drive business value? According to the US Census…

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The Revolution.Aero London report

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Yves Le Marquand

28 Jun 24

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June is statistically the sunniest month in the UK and last week it did not let us down for Revolution.Aero London 2024. But in many…

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Meet the crop spraying startup with plans for space exploration

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Yves Le Marquand

14 Jun 24

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From grain belts to asteroid belts. Psyche Aerospace’s 23-year-old CEO and founder plans to disrupt Brazil’s agricultural aviation industry before switching his attention beyond the…

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‘The first eVTOLs will form a beachhead industry’ and there is nothing wrong with that

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Yves Le Marquand

6 Jun 24

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Batteries, load factors and utilisation. Sounds like the start of a decent joke if you’re in the electric aircraft business.  They’re also the biggest limiting…

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STOL(en) the show? – Electra.aero’s short take off vision

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Yves Le Marquand

16 May 24

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The majority of hype and investment appears to centre around aircraft that take off vertically on battery power alone. Electra.aero has backed a different horse…

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Why Wisk is not alarmed by troubles at Boeing

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Yves Le Marquand

8 May 24

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The history of regime change at Boeing sets a precedent for tough times ahead for any non-core business – especially funding wise.  Recent examples range…

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Regional air mobility: Back to the future?

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Yves Le Marquand

24 Apr 24

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Turning up to my local airport as a child in the late ‘90s there would be a familiar sight on the apron. A fleet of…

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