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Dallas Love Field Airport [Photo: Business Wire]
Love Field Gets New Runway Surveillance System To Reduce Close-Call Risks
by David Seeley | Jul 8, 2024
Dallas Love Field is one of the first airports in the U.S. to get the technology from Madrid, Spain-based Indra. Called AeroBOSS, it uses ADS-B surveillance technology and 5G data networks to improve air traffic control situational awareness and reduce the risk of runway incursions.
by David Seeley |
Mar 18, 2024
Puopolo told Cities Today that leaders at DFW Airport have "identified a location and are developing our strategy" for moving air taxis forward—and upward—in the region.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 8, 2024
When Ross Perot Jr. and Mike Berry were in their mid-20s, they set out to defy skeptics and fast-track a first-of-its-kind industrial airport in North Fort Worth. Today, AllianceTexas stands as a 27,000-acre global nexus fueled by that same trailblazing spirit—and public-private collaboration on a grand scale.
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by David Seeley |
May 31, 2023
Dallas-based Ameriflight plans to operate the Matternet M2 drone for commercial delivery—focusing on health care and e-commerce deliveries to customers in dense urban and suburban environments across the country. The approval will enable what Ameriflight calls "the first fully operational, large-scale drone operation in the United States."
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Part of the drag reduction kit from Aero Design Labs installed on a 737-700 aircraft. [Photo: ADL]
Fort Worth’s Aero Design Labs Aims to Help Delta Air Lines Save Fuel, Reduce Carbon Emissions with ‘Drag Reduction Kits’
by David Seeley | Nov 17, 2022
Using computational fluid dynamics modeling, Aero Design Labs creates a 'high-definition map" of Boeing 737 aircraft. Then it works with partners to develop a drag reduction kit that can save fuel costs and reduce carbon emissions.
"Each part of the kit plays a part in capturing and redirecting the airflow, providing a holistic solution to reduce drag," ADL's Chief Commercial Officer Chris Jones told Dallas Innovates.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 29, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he's partnering with Dallas-based Brinker International on drone deliveries of chicken wings to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards and businesses.
The launch begins today in Granbury, 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth, with potential plans to expand to "a suburb east of Dallas" as Flytrex' footprint grows.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 1, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he has a new mission: Drone-delivering restaurant meals and groceries to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 24, 2018
The Caddo Mills company expects an FAA Office of Commercial Space Travel launch license determination by Feb. 14, which would allow it to launch at Spaceport America.
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Photo by Michael Samples.
Drone Technology Takes Off with Business Users
by Michael Vidikan | Feb 26, 2016
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drone aircraft, have been used extensively in commercial practice in recent years.
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