Xwing

The electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi manufacturer in the future will look to integrate autonomy onto its flagship aircraft.

Xwing and fellow autonomous flight provider Reliable Robotics are now among a handful of emerging aviation firms with military airworthiness approvals.

Xwing and Daedalean—which both produce automated systems for the cockpit—will collaborate on the development of certification standards.

Xwing and the U.S. Air Force have begun autonomous flight trials of the firm’s Superpilot flight control system aboard a Cessna 208 Caravan.

The Merlin Pilot will be the first automated flight control system to secure NAS integration, and aims to reduce workloads amid the ongoing pilot shortage.

The project is studying how commercial unmanned aerial systems interact with GA traffic and in complex operating environments.

Xwing will share flight and ground operations data, algorithms, and pertinent autonomous subject matter expertise with NASA. In turn, NASA researchers will use the information to develop a safety management system (SMS) where regular pilot-less flights can be integrated into the national airspace system.

FLYING speaks with the company’s product lead to get a look at its roadmap.

California-based startup Xwing has announced the addition of Fred Cromer to its executive team as chief financial officer.  Cromer brings more than two decades of executive experience to the fast-growing disruptor, serving previously in president roles at Bombardier and International Lease Finance Corp. and CFO at ExpressJet Holdings and Continental Express.  The company hopes to […]

After operating in stealth mode for the last four years, San Francisco-based Xwing said in a news release last week it has carried out a number of passenger-carrying flights from takeoff to landing using a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan. Xwing’s Autoflight System retrofits existing aircraft into optionally piloted vehicles, “by integrating with onboard flight control […]