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Virgin Atlantic | September 10, 2020

Virgin Atlantic has taken delivery of its latest A350-1000. Registered G-VDOT, the aircraft was delivered from Toulouse to Manchester at lunchtime yesterday, marking the first A350 delivery for the airline since G-VJAM arrived in October 2019. DOT took off from the Airbus plant in Toulouse at 12:15 local time yesterday. After around an hour and a half in the sky, she touched down at Manchester Airport. Photographer Anthony Bryant caught some wonderful images of the plane’s arrival into MAN...

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CAE, Jaunt Air Mobility | May 13, 2021

CAE confirmed recently that Jaunt Air Mobility has chosen to lead the design and development of the Jaunt Aircraft Systems Integration Lab (JASIL) for the company's latest all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the Journey. CAE will collaborate with Jaunt to add best-in-class simulation and modeling to the aircraft development program from the start, leveraging CAE's 70+ years of experience in high-fidelity simulation. The Jaunt Journey's certific...

ZDNet | January 16, 2020

Japanese car manufacturer Toyota has been named as the lead investor in Californian-based aerospace company Joby Aviation's latest Series C funding round, which raised $590 million. Of that total, Toyota contributed $349 million. In the latest funding round, Toyota was also joined by prior investors Toyota AI Ventures, Intel Capital, Sparx Group, Capricorn Investment Group, JetBlue Technology Ventures, and AME Cloud Ventures, as well as new investors Baillie Gifford and Global Oryx. With thi...

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Toshiba, Fortem Technologies, Inc. | March 23, 2021

Toshiba Corporation today declared that Toshiba Infrastructure Systems and Solutions Corporation, the Toshiba Group organization spend significant time in the worldwide infrastructure business (hereinafter Toshiba), has gone into an essential business collusion with Fortem Technologies, Inc. (from now on Fortem), and put 15 million USD in the organization. Fortem is an innovation chief in counter-drone security and Toshiba, through the coalition, intends to extend its radar-based security soluti...