Aircraft financing is a unique niche in lending, and lenders take on significant risk when providing loans for aircraft purchases. A pre-buy inspection is one way to mitigate that risk.

Some exciting new developments out of Boeing (NYSE:BA) today, as the beleaguered aircraft maker rolls out some new plans to step up autonomous aircraft inspections. Some less pleasant plans popped ...

Why it matters: Austrian Airlines, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, has been experimenting with UAVs for structural inspection of its Airbus planes. Supervised by an aircraft technician, these drones ...

Donecle, the leading company in drone-based automated aircraft inspection, acquired Dronétix Technologie on April 20 th to further expand the scope of its robotic inspections for airlines & MROs..

Following a predefined inspection path, the machine flies around the aircraft, all the time capturing high-resolution images of its exterior. The data is sent wirelessly to a tablet, allowing the ...

Airliners aren't the cheapest form of transportation to run – not the least because of the costs run up by the need for detailed inspections. easyJet and Bristol Robotics Laboratory have ...

Aircraft inspection is the important, federally-mandated process of checking recently flown planes for signs of damage. Commercial airliners incur all sorts of wear and tear as they travel the ...

During an inspection activity, which takes place inside an aircraft hangar, Korean Air uses four of the drones at the same time. Each one is equipped with high-tech cameras capable of identifying ...