Air Force

The stealth bomber is officially in flight testing, the Air Force confirms.

The FAA and Air Force both have skin in the AAM game, and the two will partner to integrate new designs such as eVTOL or autonomous aircraft.

A small number of pilots will train in F-16 fundamentals over the next several months at Morris Air National Guard Base in Tucson.

The modernization effort updates the heavy lift aircraft’s 60-year-old avionics with new flight management systems, autopilot, and digital engine instruments.

Construction on the Covington, Georgia facility, which is expected to produce up to 650 Midnight aircraft per year, is already well underway.

The installment is expected to be the first of many for Archer, which signed contracts with AFWERX Agility Prime worth up to $142 million in July.

The eVTOL manufacturer Joby Aviation hit another key milestone on its path to type certification with the introduction of crewed test flights.

The aircraft will be used to demonstrate logistics and other missions during joint flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The company may still expand its presence in Marina, where it recently wheeled its first production aircraft off the assembly line.

The agreement extends the company’s three-year partnership with AFWERX Agility Prime, the innovation arm of the Air Force dedicated to vertical lift.