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The Alia aircraft You cant not see the planes. Beta Technologies two prized prototypes take up the center of its bustling headquarters inside a hangar at Burlington International Airport. Around the upper rim of the airy space, employee workstations overlook the lustrous white machines through long walls of glass. During a recent tour, a group of engineers studied aircraft designs on a projection screen in one conference room. Next door, two o...

Siri and Alexa are coming to airplane cockpits. Heres how engineers are working to take voice tech from sci-fi to reality tpallini@businessinsider.com (Thomas Pallini) © Thomas Pallini/Business Insider An Airbus A350-1000 XWB cockpit. Thomas Pallini/Business Insider Researchers and engineers at Honeywell Aerospace are working on aircraft systems that can be controlled by voice. Pilots will be able to give commands and have a virtual assistant perform tasks to reduce pilot wo...

ALIA aircraft. Photo Credit: Beta Technologies On April 13 Beta Technologies (South Burlington, Vt., U.S.) and Blade Urban Air Mobility (Blade, New York, N.Y., U.S.) announced a binding agreement through which Blade will secure up to 20 Beta electric vertical aircraft (EVA), becoming BETA’s first passenger service customer. This news comes on the heels of UPS’ announcement that it would buy up to 150 Beta EVA aircraft, plus charging stations, as part of that company’s long-term so...

Thomas Pallini/Business Insider Researchers and engineers at Honeywell Aerospace are working on aircraft systems that can be controlled by voice.  Pilots will be able to give commands and have a virtual assistant perform tasks to reduce pilot workload.  Its the latest step towards fully autonomous self-flying aircraft that experts say will roam the skies by 2050.  "Hey Siri, fly me to Los Angeles."  Voice-controlled technology is continually advancing and just ...

Aviation is moving away from buttons and dials in cockpits by introducing touchscreens and now voice-controlled systems.

Aircraft will soon be voice-controlled in the next step towards self-flying planes - heres how engineers are actively working to make it reality tpallini@businessinsider.com (Thomas Pallini) © Thomas Pallini/Business Insider An Airbus A350-1000 XWB cockpit. Thomas Pallini/Business Insider Researchers and engineers at Honeywell Aerospace are working on aircraft systems that can be controlled by voice. Pilots will be able to give commands and have a virtual assistant perform t...

By Phil LeBeau, CNBC • Updated on May 6, 2021 at 2:31 pm Source: Wisk Aero Wisk will own, operate and maintain up to 30 eVTOL aircraft that will be deployed as part of the Blade charter flight network. For Blade, the Wisk partnership is the companys latest move to add eVTOLs, electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, to its charter network. In mid-April, Blade struck a deal with Beta Technologies for the operation of 20 piloted eVTOLs starting in 2025. Wisk Aero, a start-u...

Wisk, Blade reach deal to operate autonomous air taxis By (0) Wisk Aero, a start-up backed by Boeing and Kitty Hawk, reached a deal Wednesday to operate autonomous air taxis in the United States through charter flight company Blade. Photo courtesy Wisk/Facebook May 5 (UPI) -- Aviation company Wisk Aero reached a deal with charter flight company Blade on Wednesday to operate autonomous air taxis in the United States. Wisk, a start-up backed by Boeing and Kitty Hawk, announced it will operate a...

Comments Off on Autonomous Air Taxis Planned for Miami, Los Angeles MIAMI, Florida, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – Autonomous air taxis will fly the skies over Miami, Florida by 2024, if plans by California-based Archer Aviation come to fruition. The company’s Miami announcement came a week after Archer executives met with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez to discuss the company’s intention to establish an urban air mobility network in the South Florida city to serve its nearly 500,000 residents. “We ...

Sun, 04/25/2021 - 2:51pm -- tim The University of Vermont Firestone Medical Research Building is under construction. PC Construction is the general contractor. Designed by Black River Design, Architects in collaboration with Payette. Courtesy Photo. by Bruce Edwards, Vermont Business Magazine How tough was last year for some of the state’s commercial contractors? For PC Construction, one of the largest, it was a year when the company took a significant hit – the direct result of the now ye...