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UPS just won FAA approval to fly as many delivery drones as it wants But don’t expect your next package delivery via drone By Jay Peters Oct 1, 2019, 3:27pm EDT UPS announced that it has received government approval to operate a “drone airline.” Don’t expect your next package to arrive directly on your doorstep...

Multi-million dollar noise claim against DIA gets day in court Several Adams County communities say they’re owed $33.5 million for three years of violations By JOHN AGUILAR | jaguilar@denverpost.com | The Denver Post September 30, 2019 at 6:00 am A long-festering dispute between Denver International Airport and the cities that surround it over excessive aircraft...

Voom To Offer Per-Seat Helo Service in San Francisco Area by Mark Huber - September 26, 2019, 3:34 PM Airbus unit Voom will expand its per-seat, on-demand helicopter service to the U.S. beginning at the San Francisco Bay Area airports—Napa, Oakland, Palo Alto, Hayward, San Francisco, and San Jose—the company said on Thursday. Voom said...

ACI and CANSO call for a new approach to community engagement on noise September 29, 2019 Joint paper was presented today at ICAO’s Triennial Assembly in Montreal Montreal, 29 September 2019 – Airports Council International (ACI) World and the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO) have today presented a paper to the 40th International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly on the...

ACI calls for appropriate ICAO standards and practices for supersonic aircraft September 29, 2019 Standards must address impact on the environment, airport operations, and the public. Montreal, September 29, 2019 – At the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly today, Airports Council International (ACI) World called for appropriate standards and practices for supersonic aircraft to properly address their...

This 'Space Plane' Could Fly You From London to New York in Only 1 Hour BY CAILEY RIZZO SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 The UK Space Agency announced its plans for a “space plane” capable of carrying passengers from New York to London in just one hour. And it could be in the skies by the 2030s....

Wired - Transportation - September 26, 2019 - Teaching Pilots a New Trick: Landing Quietly Researchers want to reduce the noise from planes approaching a runway. The key is a smooth descent. ALEX DAVIES - TRANSPORTATION - 09.26.2019 07:00 AM Life in the cockpit doesn’t leave much room for individuality. Airline pilots wear the same...

White House Supports eVTOL Aircraft, Autonomy in R&D Priorities Memo Air Taxi, Regulation, Unmanned By Brian Garrett-Glaser | September 18, 2019 eVTOL research, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) The White House gave a nod to the rapid development of electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) in an executive memo discussing...

Noise Reduction Approach Tests Run At Zurich Airport Graham Warwick | Aviation Daily - Sep 16, 2019 A guidance system designed to help pilots fly complex low-noise approaches has been flight tested at Zurich Airport by German aerospace center DLR using its Airbus A320 advanced technology research aircraft (ATRA). The DLR-developed Low Noise Augmentation System...

Google-linked drone delivery service is found to be too LOUD for Australia as it exceeds residential noise limits By PAULA AHILLON FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA PUBLISHED: 19:40 EDT, 11 September 2019 | UPDATED: 21:12 EDT, 11 September 2019 A Google-linked drone delivery service has changed the design of its flying machines to address concerns that they were too loud for...

Bill Would Effectively End Most Heli Tourism in U.S. Aviation News Online - AIN Online by Mark Huber - August 29, 2019, 11:19 AM A proposed bill from a Hawaii congressman would effectively end helitours in the U.S. It would impose a 55-dB noise limit on helicopters, which no current-production machine can meet—even the quiet...