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Aviation Technology

SkyGrid | October 07, 2021

SkyGrid, a Boeing, SparkCognition company, announced today that it has released a new autonomous remote UAV operations capability to allow flight managers and operators to control and execute flights from remote locations. Using artificial intelligence and a broad array of airspace-related data feeds, SkyGrid is enabling safe remote operations for missions involving single and multiple drones. Organizations can use SkyGrid to facilitate routine inspections over an area of interest...

Air Transport

Airbus, Maana | March 30, 2021

Airbus Commercial and Maana today reported Airbus Cognitive Platform ("AIRKOG") that is equipped for responding to any domain-explicit question. Made via Airbus Commercial and fueled by Maana, AIRKOG encodes the topic aptitude of individuals, organizes a scope of instruments, and uses terabytes of information from numerous hotspots for the turn of events and arrangement of intelligent applications to address basic technical questions on A320, A330 and A350 aircraft model...

Business Aviation

KKR, AV AirFinance | June 14, 2021

KKR, a global investment firm, announced AV AirFinance Limited, a global commercial aviation loan servicer founded by a team of seasoned industry professionals in collaboration with KKR. The new secured loan servicing platform includes stable, long-term capital with decades of experience structuring commercial aircraft loan transactions to provide unique and innovative financing options to commercial aviation clients worldwide. KKR and AV AirFinance have agreed to buy a nearly $80...

Air Transport

Volocopter | October 14, 2021

Volocopter's heavy-lift electric drone VoloDrone made its first public flight today at the ITS 2021 World Congress . Together with international logistics leader DB Schenker, Volocopter, the pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), demonstrated the seamless integration of VoloDrone into the supply chain with an end-to-end freight transport demonstration. The partners showed the significant progress they have made together since DB Schenker became a strategic investor of Volocopter in early...