Flying Magazine
• Jack Daleo
An electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft responded to two emergency 911 calls in North Carolina under public aircraft operations, providing an early operational example of eVTOL technology being used for emergency response rather than passenger transport.
eVTOL Insights
• Jason Pritchard
By eVTOL Insights: A flight-trained paramedic piloting Pivotal's eVTOL aircraft arrived to a 911 emergency call in North Carolina approximately 20 minutes before a ground ambulance, in what has been described as a national first which could reshape emergency medical response in rural America.
ch-aviation
• Hilka Birns
By ch-aviation: Ryanair (FR, Dublin International) faces a group legal action in the London Commercial Court after 262 former pilots alleged they were denied statutory employment benefits while working for the Irish low-cost carrier as contractors.
eVTOL Insights
• Thomas Sleightholm
By eVTOL Insights: Joby Aviation has opened a 45,000-square-foot facility at Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport, establishing a new base for its planned advanced air mobility operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Joby Aviation
ch-aviation
• Hilka Birns
By ch-aviation: Jambojet (JM, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) has secured Ghanaian airline PassionAir as its first third-party MRO customer, resulting in DHC-8-Q400, 9G-BPD (msn 4204), arriving for C-check heavy maintenance at Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta after being ferried from Accra via Bangui between August 5-6, ADS-B data confirms.
Leeham News
• Scott Hamilton
By Leeham News: Subscription required By Scott Hamilton Aug. 11, 2026, © Leeham News: The first delivery of the Airbus A350F could be slipping from late 2027 to 2028, LNA has learned.
Inflight Online
• Keith Mwanalushi
By Inflight Online: Teledyne Controls launches GroundLink® Edge Computing Platform and AppLink cloud service after FAA STC approval for the Boeing 737, enabling remote deployment and management of onboard applications.
AeroTime
• Ian Molyneaux
By AeroTime: An airport service vehicle slammed into a taxiing private jet at Milan Linate (LIN) in Italy with the driver seemingly unaware of the approaching aircraft.
Simple Flying
The Independent
The Daily Debrief
One concise daily briefing across aviation, defense and space—key developments, corroborating sources, and the context leaders need to act.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
