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Safran eyes interiors rebound after sluggish start to year
Safran is hopeful that its interiors business is poised for recovery as the year progresses after an “extremely weak” first quarter.
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Panasonic sees lockdown influence in streaming lift from unlimited Wi-Fi trial
Panasonic Avionics is highlighting a greater propensity for passengers to stream content as one of the learnings from a recent airline trial offering unlimited Wi-Fi connectivity onboard.
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KLM aims to complete 737-800 cabin upgrades by March 2022
Dutch carrier KLM has debuted a cabin upgrade for the first of 14 Boeing 737-800, a fleet revamp it aims to complete by March next year.

Textron to take time over eVTOL development as batteries ‘not yet ready’

Scott Donnelly, the chief executive of Textron – owner of Beechcraft, Cessna and Bell – has seemingly ruled out the imminent launch of an urban air mobility (UAM) vehicle, stressing that battery technology has not advanced sufficiently to support such an application.

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Airbus to test autonomy with Vertex demonstrator

Airbus in 2023 will begin flight tests of a new sense and avoid system integrated onto its H130-based Flightlab helicopter as it works to mature autonomous technologies to increase operational safety on current and future platforms.

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Kaman’s autonomous K-Max Titan helicopter makes first flight

Kaman’s unmanned K-Max Titan helicopter flew for the first time on 21 April.

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Airbus Helicopters claims Chinese content on H175 can be replaced if offered to UK military

Airbus Helicopters insists it can overcome obstacles related to Chinese content on its H175 should the super-medium-twin be offered as a replacement for the UK Royal Air Force’s Puma fleet.

MRO

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Qantas Group to grow Brisbane, Melbourne MRO facilities

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Boeing to open first 737 freighter conversion line in Latin America

Air France-KLM Engineering and Maintenance

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Why AFI KLM E&M sees greater need for MRO collaboration

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SIA Engineering warns outlook ‘still fraught with risks’ amid full-year loss

Qantas Group to grow Brisbane, Melbourne MRO facilities
Boeing to open first 737 freighter conversion line in Latin America
Why AFI KLM E&M sees greater need for MRO collaboration
SIA Engineering warns outlook ‘still fraught with risks’ amid full-year loss

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Space

As Mars helicopter flies, Russian institute looks at drones for Venus

As NASA confirms the successful first flight of its ‘Ingenuity’ rotorcraft on Mars, Russian scientists are proposing that unmanned aerial vehicles be deployed as part of a planned mission to Venus.

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Small rotorcraft ‘Ingenuity’ flies on Mars
NASA has flown a small rotorcraft on Mars, the first powered controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
60 years on, why Yuri Gagarin remains an orbital hero
Sixty years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth from space – and one of the 20th century’s most famous figures. This is an edited version of Flight’s 20 April 1961 report on the event.
NASA to fly Ingenuity helicopter on Mars within three weeks
NASA is planning for Ingenuity, its Mars helicopter, to fly within the next three weeks, engineers say on 23 March.

Civil UAVs

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Kaman’s autonomous K-Max Titan helicopter makes first flight
Kaman’s unmanned K-Max Titan helicopter flew for the first time on 21 April.
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Volocopter eyes air taxi foray in China
Urban air mobility company Volocopter has teamed up China’s Geely Technology Group to work on introducing its electric air taxi services into the country.
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Xwing conducts first fully autonomous gate-to-gate cargo flight
Autonomous aircraft company Xwing says its Cessna Grand Caravan 208B has completed its first “fully autonomous gate-to-gate demonstration of a commercial cargo aircraft”.