Urban-Air Port Opens First Vertiport In UK Urban-Air Port opened its first hub for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in Coventry, U.K., on Monday. According to the company, the 1,700-square-meter (about 18,300-square-foot) prefabricated Air-One “vertiport,” which was designed for “rapid” assembly and disassembly, will operate[…] Read this article
Overcoming Bad Habits In the March 2021 issue of Aviation Safety magazine, I discussed the need to restructure the way we teach flying, to focus ab initio training on developing habits that don’t have to be unlearned as one progresses through flight training and into[…] Read this article
GE Aviation, BAE Systems Partner On Hybrid Electric Flight Demonstration Program GE Aviation has chosen BAE Systems to design, test and supply energy management components for its hybrid electric propulsion system demonstration program. For the project, BAE will be providing the battery and cabling used to store electricity and drive the[…] Read this article
General Aviation Accident Bulletin AVweb’s General Aviation Accident Bulletin is taken from the pages of our sister publication, Aviation Safety magazine. All the reports listed here are preliminary and include only initial factual findings about crashes. You can learn more about the final probable[…] Read this article
ATP To Open New Flight School In Fort Myers ATP Flight School has announced that it will officially open its new airline pilot training center at Page Field (FMY) in Fort Myers, Florida, on Friday. The newly constructed 19,000-square-foot facility includes classroom, briefing and testing spaces as well as[…] Read this article
