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Airbus is continuing development work on its CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL, with first flight targeted in 2023.

Construction of the Airbus Racer high-speed compound aircraft is accelerating at the manufacturer’s facility in Marignane, France, as the program teams targets a first flight by the end of the year.

Airbus is confident of finally securing Federal Aviation Administration approval of its H160 this summer — almost two years later than it had originally hoped — paving the way for the type to begin an offshore route-proving program in partnership with PHI and Shell.

The Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant showed off its slalom skills in a series of tests that also expanded the helicopter’s external load lift capacity.

Sikorsky continues to rack up orders for the CH-53K King Stallion, most recently with a $372 million contract to build four of the heavy lift helicopters for Israel.

The challenging hoist rescue of a stranded hunter by the Alaska Army National Guard (AKARNG) has been named the 2021 Rescue of the Year by the DUSTOFF Association.

Honeywell has been selected to provide the power plant for Defiant X, which Sikorsky and Boeing are building in hopes of replacing the U.S. Army’s Black Hawk helicopters. 

Robinson has issued a safety alert regarding pilot monitoring of the engine governor.

In placing 5G cell towers, no one considered whether those towers were near any of U.S. public heliports or air ambulance landing sites.

U.S. commandos were forced to abandon and destroy a special operations Black Hawk helicopter in Syria on Feb. 2.