George Bye, creator of the Sun Flyer electric trainer prototype, has teamed up with XTI Aircraft Company to accelerate development of a vertical takeoff and landing design with intention to seat six and cruise at business jet speed.

We have exciting news this week as Bell Geospace has invested in a new aircraft. This aircraft is the Basler BT-67 produced by Basler Turbo Conversions. This utility aircraft provides a long-range fuel tank that allows for the aircraft range to reach 2140 nautical miles. Bell Geospace has purchased this new utility aircraft in order to expand its worldwide and technical capacity. Bell states that “The Basler BT-67 has proven to be an efficient and reliable platform for conducting our FTG surveys, and has yielded some of our most successful surveys to date. This is already a very promising purchase and an intelligent investment from Bell Geospace that will hopefully launch more of their ideas and innovative efforts in the aerospace world.

The B-L072Z-LRWAN1 STM32 LoRa Discovery kit builds on the all-in-one open module from Murata that consolidates a STM32L072CZ microcontroller and Semtech SX1276 transceivers. The module lineaments a LoRa modem that implements ultra-long-range spread-spectrum communication and high interference immunity while reducing current expenditure. Since the module is open, developers have access to the STM32L072 MCU and its unit such as ADC, 16-bit timer, LP-UART, 12C, SPI AND USB 2.0 FS.

Vision research has released a 4k high speed camera with a 35 millimeter, 9.4-megapixel sensor capable of recording at 1,000 frames per second. The camera will be useful in aerospace research especially when recording extremely fast moving objects like propellers and chopper blades. 4k resolution and high speed shutter ability has been long sought after but technology has been the limiting factor. This camera takes no loss in speed or sensitivity, instead it boots both in an epic creation by Vision Research. Add the capability of operating in extreme temperatures and you have the perfect tool for recording high energy equipment failure.

CSIRO is joining with start-up company Ecocentric on a system that recognizes the electrical ‘fingerprint’ of individual appliances to gain energy adaptability in buildings. CSIRO and Ecocentric will further develop the ‘Numen’ energy saving system under a licensing and research agreement. The Numen brings together a building’s total energy signal, identifies the appliances present, and then divides out appliance-specific consumption data on how much energy the appliance is using.

Rolls-Royce has released news they will deliver around five hundred large engines this year. This will be an increase of 15% to some 355 in 2016. In the last year aerospace profit more than halved. RR has stated the underlying revenues for large engine supply at 1.6 billion with an increase of 2% and civil aerospace profit has jumped more than half to 367 billion.

The United States Air Force stamp of approval is known as the gold standard in assessment, the CRADA can in fact open up aircraft to direct commercial sales customers. In August of 2016 Lockheed and USAF were prepared to move the FA-50 into the cooperative research and development, also known as CRADA. It’s said Lockheed Martin decided to withdraw from the CRADA for the FA-50 because they could not close on the final terms and conditions.

The Boeing company is known to be an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets and satellites and satellites worldwide. The company works on providing leasing and product support services. They are known to be one of the largest global aircraft manufacturers. They are also known to be the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value. With all these findings, they are known to be successful and have been improving since. Their corporate is located in Chicago and the CEO is Dennis Muienburg.

The Swedish airline BRA how powered its first biofuel-powered flight. The ATR 72-600 aircraft recently took off from Stockholm Bromma Airport and traveled to Umea. The flight was using a fuel blend concocted of cooking oil. The ATR 72-600 is a lightweight aircraft the provides higher speeds and was built for quick serving routes. The current issue right now with large scale production of biofuels is the environment. This can be affected negatively by large scale production at affordable costs.

The words of Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr have been spoken. Per the CEO the belief of the speedy growth of Gulf Airlines will come to an end. It’s believed this will even out the pressure of an extremely competitive airline industry. It’s believed Gulf has reached its limits of their recent growth, and will soon top out. Lufthansa has been harsh towards Gulf Airlines which includes Qatar Airways and Ethihad. Due to this growth Lufthansa has had to drastically cut cost and overhaul their cabins to keep up with the Gulf carriers.