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Greg Meholic Mr. Greg Meholic is member of the AIAA Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion Technical Committee, a regular chair of the Future Flight sessions at the Joint Propulsion Conferences, and has published a number of papers about faster-than-light travel, the construct of space-time, and the grand unified theory. He currently supports space launch vehicle concept development and propulsion system studies for the US Government. During the past seven years, Greg has worked on upper-stage cr...

UK CAA Authorises Routine BVLOS Operations Trial In a significant step forward for the drone industry, beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) command & control solution developer sees.ai has become the first company in the UK to secure authorisation from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to trial a concept for routine Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations. The permissions come as part of a test project to prove the concept ahead of potentially opening it up to the wider market. The au...

Extra JetBlue US airline JetBlue has reimagined its business class seats as private spaces for optimum sleep, designed in conjunction with US mattress brand Tuft & Needle. Its Mint Studio seats, which will debut on a flight from New York to London in the summer, will feature one of the largest business class beds on any commercial airline. Each business class cabin will feature two Mint Studio seats with adjoining sofa, separated from the aisle by a sliding door – perfect for travellers wi...

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Aberdeen visual inspection company secures funding to advance its technology © Supplied by Air Control Entech Aberdeen-based AIR Control Entech has been awarded £175,000 to further advance its previously developed 4G technology to 5G. The certified remote inspection technology specialist, which streamed the world’s first live offshore inspection in 2017, received the grant from the UK Research and Innovation through the Future Flight Challenge. It will be used to further establish remote di...

Heathrow has successfully pitched two carbon-cutting concepts to Innovate UK’s Future Flight Challenge | eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online | Airport news

Heathrow has successfully pitched two carbon-cutting concepts to Innovate UK’s Future Flight Challenge | eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online | Airport news

Feb 05 2021 Read 506 Times Protium Green Solutions, the green hydrogen energy services company, has secured a significant grant for Project HEART from the UK Government as part of the latest Future Flight Challenge in partnership with Blue Bear Systems and ZeroAvia. Blue Bear Systems is the leading supplier of innovation and products in unmanned systems, and ZeroAvia is a US-based innovator and leader of decarbonising commercial aviation. Other consortium members include Britten-Norman, LoganA...

First electric Urban Air Port secures UK government backing; eVTOL hub The Future Flight Challenge was created to develop aviation infrastructure and systems that enable the next generation of electric and autonomous air vehicles. Air-One is a world-first fully-operational hub for future electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft—such as cargo drones and air taxis—to be launched in Coventry (UK) later this year. Urban Air Port develops fully autonomous innovative zero emission ...

£84m for green aviation projects announced 1st February 2021 14:55 Europe/London The Government has announced £84m is being invested in three projects to make aviation greener. Half of that total is coming through the govt’s ATI programme with the rest matched by industry. The three projects are: GKN Aerospace-led project H2GEAR will receive a £27.2m government grant to develop an innovative liquid hydrogen propulsion system for regional air travel, which could be scaled up for larger airc...