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(WCCO) – A Minnesota Air Rescue Team Bell 429 crew hoisted a camper with a medical emergency earlier this month from Voyageurs National Park.

The National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) Fly Safe campaign is reminding ag pilots that stress, anxiety, and panic experienced from events inside and outside the cockpit can lead to mental fatigue.

(apa) – Local officials are praising the professionalism, composure, and courage of the pilot and officer on board after a Morane 29 firefighting helicopter fell into a pond while scooping water Aug. 24 in Finisterre, Brittany, France.

The Leonardo AW139 crew assisted first responders with hoisting a hiker who fell down an embankment Aug. 23 in Port Tobacco.

(Vertical magazine) – A revised safety notice for Robinson pilots includes explicit instructions to slow down and disengage autopilot upper modes in moderate or greater turbulence.

The Africa 2024–2025 report outlines infrastructure and financing challenges and notes a shift toward Western-built preowned helicopters while identifying growth opportunities in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

Researchers from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and aviation safety company ResilienX are developing a system that allows drone operators to submit flight plans prior to departure, quickly obtain the results of a risk assessment, and decide whether to proceed or change their plans.

The Austrian company will display its eCopter electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft during the Saudi Drone Exhibition Sep. 1–3 in Riyadh.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Sep. 9, applies to A109A, A109AII, A109C, A109K2, A119, and certain AW119 MkII helicopters. It requires checking for proper installation of the bolts that attach the pitch actuator assembly and the roll actuator assembly to their respective bell crank assemblies in the cyclic control system.

(BBC) – An HM Coastguard helicopter crew assisted local police with hoisting two hikers from a cliff Aug. 23 south of Bude in Cornwall, England.