Drone or quadcopter with camera 3d for scanning. This idea is now being applied to aircraft inspections, and will result in lower costs and improved safety. Aircraft are regularly inspected for a lot ...

A detailed set of inspection and maintenance instructions have been approved and shared after a review of data from 40 inspections of grounded planes, AviationPros reports. WASHINGTON - "The Jan. 5 ...

Lufthansa has developed a new iPad application that will “digitize” its pre-flight aircraft inspection process using Apple’s SwiftUI developer framework and Ditto’s peer-to-peer real time database.

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered most of Boeing’s 737 MAX-9 aircraft to be temporarily grounded, pending inspections, after an exit panel blew off from the Alaska Airlines airplane ...

Japan Airlines and Donecle have launched Japan's first joint project using fully autonomous drones for exterior aircraft inspections at JAL's hangars.

Spirit AeroSystems has disclosed more detail about a newly implemented 737 fuselage inspection process that executives say has initially slowed deliveries but will ultimately better prepare the ...

Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...

Aviation Week editors James Pozzi and Lindsay Bjerregaard are joined by Dejan Borota, CEO and co-founder of drone-based inspection specialist Mainblades, to discuss technology's development in MRO, ...

PITTSBURGH - A small business called Near Earth Autonomy developed a time-saving solution using drones for pre-flight checks of commercial airliners through a NASA Small Business Innovation Research ...

Product: Korean Air has developed technology to inspect aircraft using swarms of small drones, which it says is the first of its kind in the aviation industry. Four drones inspect an aircraft fuselage ...