Sun, Oct 12, 2025
Amazon Prime Air has halted its unmanned delivery operations after two of its MK30 drones ran into the boom of a crane in Tolleson, Arizona.
No injuries were reported. The crash happened early on October 1, leaving both aircraft destroyed. Police in Tolleson quickly secured the site and confirmed that an investigation was underway. Federal officials also stepped in, with both the FAA and the NTSB doing their parts. Skydweller Aero announced the recent completion of a 74-hour flight of its unmanned, solar-powered aircraft in conjunction with the Navy. The flight was conducted over the Gulf of America and represents a major advancement in unmanned aircraft technology. Austrian air taxi startup FlyNow Aviation is celebrating the first untethered test flights of its eVTOL vehicle, the eCopter. The helicopter-like prototype first took to the skies with tethered flights in 2023 and is ambitiously targeting commercial rollout in 2027. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne-NextGen!!!
Airborne-NextGen 10.07.25 is chock full of info in this Weekly News Episode, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Holland Lee, Sophie Hurlock, Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, and Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, this episode covers:
- Amazon Grounds Delivery Fleet After Drone-VS-Crane Collision
- Skydweller Completes 3-Day Unmanned Solar Flight
- FlyNow eCopter Air Taxi Completes First Untethered Flights
- USAF Reactivates WWII-Era Squadron For Drone Ops
- Beyond Aero Achieves Full-Scale Hydrogen-Electric Power
- Vertical Aerospace Cheers UK Next-Gen eVTOL Funding
- Archer Midnight Flies At Cali Int'l Air Show
Get Comprehensive, Real-Time, 24/7 coverage of the latest aviation and aerospace stories anytime, at aero-news.net. And be sure to join us again next week for the next edition of "Airborne-NextGen" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, next week!
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