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This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 62–Main Rotor–Rotating Swashplate Yokes–Inspection, becomes effective Jan. 21, 2025. It supersedes AD 2024-0206-E, which EASA published Oct. 22, 2024.

Skyryse will work to integrate its SkyOS operating system, reduce training time for pilots, and introduce an optionally piloted capability for a fleet of 2,400 US Army Black Hawk helicopters and other military aircraft.

Helicopter Services Inc. (HSI) has installed a mosquito-control package on an Airbus H125 for East Baton Rouge Mosquito Abatement and Rodent Control.

Teledyne FLIR Defense has obtained a contract to provide more than 125 electro-optic sensor system–modernized (ESS-M) units for the US Coast Guard (USCG) fleet of Sikorsky MH-60s and Eurocopter MH-65s.

This proposed FAA airworthiness directive (AD) would require inspecting certain main-rotor driveshafts for a crack, prohibit installing certain main-rotor driveshafts unless the inspection is done, and prohibit using certain paint removers. The FAA is accepting comments through Feb. 28, 2025.

Pilot and safety standards analyst Jeff Currin explains how nutrition is key to human performance and why you need plenty of water and healthy food to ensure safe operations.

The contract from the DLR Quantum Computing Initiative is part of the QUA-SAR research project, which aims to develop quantum computing for radar remote sensing.

This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 52–Doors–Jettisonable Window Mechanism–Lubrication/Operational Test, takes effect Jan. 24, 2024.