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he Flight School Association of North America (FSANA) met in Phoenix to discuss practical testing trends, practices, and standardization.

The FAA Airport Improvement Program grants will pay for new taxiways, enhancements and repairs at nine cargo airports.

The funding is broken up into a total of 43 grants that research teams at the selected universities will be able to leverage for their work.

Beginning in New York and Los Angeles, Delta and Joby plan to integrate Joby’s services as a premium shuttle service to and from airports where Delta operates. This will run alongside Joby’s planned airport services, making the partnership mutually exclusive in the U.S. and the U.K. for half a decade after Joby’s commercial launch.

The aviation community was expecting the announcement and points to progress on unleaded fuel in the market.

The labor group is opposed to efforts to certify the 737 Max 7 and Max 10 without modernized flight crew alerting systems.

Choctaw Nation is one of drone delivery’s biggest supporters.

Boeing must achieve regulatory approval for the Max 10 and the slightly smaller variant—the Max 7—no later than December to meet its delivery deadlines.

The four-passenger, all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is the first candidate for FAA certification for autonomous, passenger-carrying air taxi, the company said.

The commuter aircraft prototype was powered by two magniX magni650 Electric Propulsion Units (EPUs).