After a day to allow the mental dust to settle, I thought I might collate my thoughts about the show. Clearly, the headline story of Heli-Expo 2024 was the announcement...
Read MoreIt’s always terrible when an aircraft crashes for whatever reason, even more so when it comes at the end of an extraordinarily successful week for Europe’s helicopter industry. For those...
Read MoreMy review copy of Flying Sideways, the autobiography of film stunt pilot Fred North, arrived earlier this week. While I didn’t open it for a couple of days – I…
eVTOL developer Volocopter has reiterated its prediction in a joint statement made with Aéroports de Paris and the DGAC that it will operate passenger flights at the Summer Olympics and…
The UK’s CAA has just published CAP 2538, in which it sets out its thinking as regards vertiports. The thing that jumped off the page is that where the US…
Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen has written to the manufacturers of high-powered lasers requesting that they add a label to their packaging warning consumers ‘not to point them at aircraft’....
Read MoreNew York State Senator Brad Hoylman, the sponsor of the vetoed “Stop the chop” bill, says that in response, he will introduce legislation to close Manhattan’s West 30th Street Heliport...
Read MoreThe Helicopter Association International (HAI) is urging all of its New York-based members to contact Governor Kathy Hochul and voice their opposition to State Senate Resolution S7493A, the so-called ‘stop...
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