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The Helicopter Podcast host Halsey Schider and Jon Gray from the Hangar Z Podcast interview Frank Liemandt, managing director of the German Helicopter Association and show director of EUROPEAN ROTORS.

(MLive) – A Michigan State Police (MSP) helicopter crew located a suspect who allegedly fled from officers Nov. 23 in Grand Rapids.

(RotorHub) – Airwolf Aerospace has obtained Brazilian National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) supplemental type certificate (STC) approval to install True Blue Power TB17 batteries on the Airbus H125/AS350, AS355, H120, and H130/EC130; Bell 206A/B and Bell 206L/L-1/L-3/L-4; Enstrom 480B; and MD 369/MD 500.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace has published a study that offers guidelines to help local officials and stakeholders ensure land-use compatibility for advanced air mobility infrastructure, including vertiports.

(Bob Mackin) – The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation in British Columbia has started a new phase of an $18 million logging operation to remove trees that died after a moth infestation in Stanley Park.

The Royal Aeronautical Society’s Jonathan Clare reports on developments from the 2024 Global Defence Helicopter Conference, which took place Oct. 22–24 in Warsaw, Poland.

(FlightGlobal) – A Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey assigned to US Marine Corps (USMC) Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1), which provides support to the US president, was grounded Nov. 25 after a reporter observed flames below the tiltrotor’s right engine.

This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD) for Airbus H160-B helicopters, ATA 05–Time Limits/Maintenance Checks–Airworthiness Limitations Section–Amendment, becomes effective Dec. 10, 2024.

Last month, for the first time in nearly 80 years, the FAA unveiled a new aircraft category—powered-lift. This groundbreaking class of aircraft can take off and land vertically like helicopters and transition to forward flight on fixed wings. We encourage everyone in vertical aviation to become familiar with the Special Federal Aviation Regulation announcing the […]