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Harry Combs Enters the Jet Age

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BCA Special Edition Newsletter March 7, 2025
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Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) February 27, 2025
Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) matt.jouppi@av… Thu, 02/27/2025 - 18:14 The USAF’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) aims to field at least 1,000 unmanned platforms to complement the F-35 and the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) platform. Between two to eight CCAs would accompany each fighter, improving their survivability and situational awareness by acting as decoys as […]
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Volant Aerotech VE25 August 12, 2024
Volant Aerotech VE25 william.moore@… Mon, 08/12/2024 - 13:11 The VE25 is a lift-plus-cruise eVTOL in development by Shanghai Volant Aerotech Co., Ltd. Entry into service is expected in 2027 with certification coming from the Civil Aviation Authority of China. Flight testing of a prototype variant of the aircraft began in January 2023. Volant have approaching […]
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Horizon Aircraft Cavorite X7 March 20, 2024
Horizon Aircraft Cavorite X7 william.moore@… Wed, 03/20/2024 - 13:26 The Cavorite X7 is a fan-in-wing hybrid vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) being developed by New Horizon Aircraft Ltd. The Cavorite X7 was set to go into the testing phase of production in 2024, in the form of a full-scale technology demonstrator. However, as of March […]
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Supernal S-A2 February 8, 2024
Supernal S-A2 william.moore@… Thu, 02/08/2024 - 13:09 The S-A2 is a tiltrotor eVTOL being developed by Supernal LLC. The aircraft is the latest concept Supernal has released and follows on from the S-A1 and later cabin concept released by the company. Entry into service is planned for 2029, with Supernal looking to take time to […]
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SkyDrive SD-05 January 3, 2024
SkyDrive SD-05 william.moore@… Wed, 01/03/2024 - 12:18 The SD-05 “Flying Car” is an eVTOL multicopter being developed by SkyDrive Inc. A predecessor aircraft, the SD-03 has been successfully flight tested and the SD-05 model is now undergoing flight testing. Entry into service is planned for 2027 in both Japan and the U.S., with certification coming […]
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Wisk Cora Generation 6 November 29, 2023
Wisk Cora Generation 6 shambo.pfaff@i… Wed, 11/29/2023 - 14:21 The Cora Generation 6 is a tiltrotor eVTOL being developed by Wisk Aero LLC. Subscale Cora Generation 6 flight testing is underway. Across the five generations of aircraft leading to the Cora Generation 6, previously operated under the Kittyhawk and Zee.aero brand, more than 1,550 full-scale […]
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Volocopter VoloRegion November 29, 2023
Volocopter VoloRegion shambo.pfaff@i… Wed, 11/29/2023 - 14:19 In March 2025, Wanfeng acquired Volocopter. It is uncertain as to whether the company intends to continue the VoloRegion program.The VoloRegion is a lift-plus-cruise eVTOL being developed by Volocopter GmbH. The first prototype flight test for the aircraft was conducted in 2022 and entry into service is planned […]
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Selected U.S. Military Contracts for the Week of March 6 - March 10, 2017 March 15, 2017
Selected U.S. Military Contracts for the Week of March 6 - March 10, 2017 user+1@localho… Wed, 03/15/2017 - 01:41 Selected U.S. military contracts for March 6, 2017 U.S. ARMY Blue Storm Associates Inc., doing business as Pemdas Technologies and Innovation, Alexandria, Virginia, was awarded a $49,500,000 order dependent contract for the Atmospheric Sensing and Prediction […]
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Product Realization Pop Quiz April 18, 2016
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