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Aviation Technology

Ansys | January 31, 2022

The Nordic Air Racing Team, an official Air Race E team, successfully completed the world's first flight of an all-electric racing plane – the plane was designed and engineered with the help of Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) simulation solutions. As the official simulation software partner of Air Race E, Ansys enables teams to overcome some of the key engineering challenges of fully electric flight. Air Race E, the world's first and only all-electric airplane racing championsh...

Business Aviation

Garmin International | October 18, 2022

Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., today announced Supplemental Type Certification (STC) by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the GI 275 electronic flight instrument in the Dassault Falcon 7X business jet.As a replacement for the original secondary flight display (SFD), the primary GI 275 will integrate with the aircraft’s existing systems to be configured as an attitude-direction indicator (ADI) with synthetic vision technology (SVT™). Adding a seco...

Simple Flying | April 03, 2020

Thomas Cook Aviation has declared bankruptcy. The news came after its contracts with its sole customer, the German carrier Condor, were canceled. Around half a year ago the Thomas Cook Group collapsed into bankruptcy.You may have read the title of this story thinking ‘hang on, Thomas Cook declared bankruptcy last September?” Well, you would be correct, the Thomas Cook Group did collapse. However, despite the collapse of its parent company Thomas Cook Aviation continued operatio...

Aerospace

magniX | November 07, 2022

magniX, a manufacturer of electric propulsion solutions for aviation, is pleased to have powered the first fully-electric helicopter flight between airfields, in partnership with Tier 1 Engineering. The modified electric Robinson 44 (eR44) helicopter powered with a magniX magni250 electric propulsion unit (EPU) made its historic journey from Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport to Palm Springs International Airport, arriving on 29 October 2022 at 11:00am PST, in a flight that lasted approximately...