EASA Certifies Rig’N Fly Automatic Oil Platform Approach For The H225 [feedly]

EASA Certifies Rig'N Fly Automatic Oil Platform Approach For The H225
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=bb048f17-9bbd-4ce9-95e8-2993abd45699

Fully Automatic Approach Up To Go-Around Decision And Final Rig Landing Assistance EASA has granted certification to Airbus Helicopters for the Rig'N Fly (Rig Integrated GPS approaches with eNhanced Fly-ability and safetY), an avionics enhancement designed to provide automatic rig approaches for offshore operations. First developed on H225, it will also be implemented on H175 (end 2016) and on H160.

NASA ‘Surprised’ By Hybrid Power Study Results

Researchers find significant fuel savings in “minimal” turbo-electric concept, thanks to benefits of a boundary-layer ingesting,electrically driven propulsor and resulting weight savings from downsizing conventional turbofan engines.
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http://www.nasa.gov/feature/researchers-advance-propulsion-toward-low-carbon-aircraft

Europe To Decide On Radical Airliner Demo In 2019


Researchers led by Airbus regard distributed hybrid-electric propulsion as one promising option for a post-2035 commercial aircraft. Europe may fly a scaled demonstrator of this, or an alternative configuration, in 2022.
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About the alternative configuration:
http://www.bauhaus-luftfahrt.net/research/system-und-flugzeugtechnologien/propulsive-fuselage