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(WJZY) – Officials from the Lake Lure County (North Carolina) Fire Department ordered a private helicopter pilot from South Carolina to stop volunteer efforts to rescue people affected by Hurricane Helene.

(AIN) – Lift Aircraft has obtained a US Army Applications Laboratory contract to design a modular container that could be integrated with multiple air and ground vehicles to carry wounded troops and payloads such as medical supplies. Lift is partnering with Near Earth Autonomy on the project.

Skyports Infrastructure has reached an agreement with Parkin Co. to examine potential sites for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft vertiports at parking facilities in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

(Aerospace Global News) – Australian heliport operator Microflite has joined forces with Skyportz to explore options for electric air taxi vertiport sites in Melbourne, Victoria, starting with an existing Microflite helipad along the Yarra River.

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, Shropshire, UK, is revisiting the story of how a Helicopter Emergency Landing Pads (HELP) Appeal donation led to an upgraded helipad in October 2009.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires replacing all steel-alloy barrel nuts with nickel-alloy barrel nuts, replacing or inspecting other tail-boom attachment point hardware, repetitively inspecting torque, and repetitively replacing tail-boom attachment bolts, becomes effective Nov. 8, 2024. It also prohibits the installation of steel-alloy barrel nuts.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires inspecting the tail-boom assembly hardware, replacing the tail-boom attachment hardware, greasing the bolt shanks, and inspecting torque for the Bell 204B, 205A-1, 205B, and 210, takes effect Nov. 8, 2024. It also prohibits the installation of steel-alloy nuts on any helicopter.

Applications are due by Nov. 8, 2024, for VAI’s 2025 scholarship program, which awards educational benefits to VAI members across multiple categories.