Wed, May 21, 2025
Merlin’s flight testing campaign continues to rapidly progress with its certification-ready Cessna Caravan at Quonset State Airport (KOQU) in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
Recent test flights validated core systems functionalities including Flight Guidance and Autothrottle. These assist the aircraft in maintaining its desired flight path and automatically manage airspeed using engine thrust. Dronetag has confronted the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority for allegedly selling an identical copy of its remote ID device, the Mini. Despite its legal team reaching out several times, they have not received a response. Dronetag is an EU-funded and NATO-supported manufacturer that produces a variety of technologies for drones. Several of these are remote ID devices, which serve as a sort of digital license plate to broadcast the drone's location data to other parties. Slovakia-based developer Klein Vision recently unveiled the production-model prototype of its flying car. If all goes to plan, the AirCar will hit the market in early 2026. The AirCar is the outcome of more than a decade of work from Klein Vision co-founders Stefan Klein and Anton Zajac. All this -- and MORE in today's
episode of Airborne-NextGen!!!
Airborne-NextGen 05.13.25 is chock full of info in this Weekly News Episode, Tuesday, May 13th, 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:
- Merlin Flight Testing Continues Advancing
- Dronetag Calls Out Dubai for Copycat Design
- Klein Vision Debuts $1 Million Flying Car
- UK Issues Military Type Certificate For MQ-9B UAS
- FlightSimExpo Set for Late June
- NASA Welcomes David Gallagher As JPL Director
- Private Japanese Spacecraft Prepares for Lunar Landing
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