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The company will work with Airbus Helicopters to develop composite technologies and electrical wiring interconnection systems for the H225M Caracal.

Boeing has obtained a contract worth more than $173 million to provide eight helicopters plus training and support services to the US Air Force.

The California-based company designed its new AIRE artificial intelligence (AI) data platform to assist operators with aircraft availability, airworthiness, and reliability.

(Forbes) – If Congress does not step in to halt proposed budget cuts to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including for crash testing, it will reduce aviation safety, put lives at risk, and jeopardize the economic and scientific benefits the United States receives from aviation and space research, argues Mike Hirschberg.

(Aerospace America) – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Multimodal Working Group is examining what early use cases could benefit from door-to-door mobility.

(Design News) – Engineers working on advanced air mobility and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft may be in uncharted skies, literally and figuratively, as companies building these systems do not have years of engineering expertise to rely on. Simulation and model-based design can help, explains Paul Barnard, application engineering manager at MathWorks.

(Edhat) – Two Santa Barbara County (California) Sheriff’s Office helicopter crews assisted fire and rescue teams with locating and airlifting a lost hiker Oct. 6 near Franklin Trail in Carpinteria.

(KCRA) – FAA and US National Transportation Safety Board data show a significant reduction in air ambulance accident fatalities during 2016–2021 compared with 2010–2015, according to the Air Medical Journal.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) report recommends that operators take the time to reassess the safety of continuing proposed mercy flights–—including rooftop rescues using untrained crews–—and consider all other alternatives before exposing crew members to additional risks.

(CBC) – According to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, a helicopter carrying an external load went down Oct. 7 near Henriette Dam in British Columbia, Canada, resulting in injuries to the pilot.