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the market for automated aircraft inspection, as it stands now

where the market is

Companies building the tools, the airlines and maintenance shops that have adopted them, and the regulators whose rules apply. Toggle layers; click a point.

this week

From the Hangar News Engine, which reads about 50 trade, drone and regulator sources every half hour and ranks stories by what they mean for automated visual inspection.

what moved recently

the numbers that frame it

A handful of the sourced figures from the Figures view. Click any number to see the source and the exact wording it comes from.

news, ranked for this market

who is building the tools

companies

Every entry rests on pages fetched and quoted in the Sources view. Click a row for its facts.

mainblades relationships on the record

Customers, partners, approvals and suppliers as announced publicly by Mainblades or the other party. Nothing here is a sales list.

who has put it to work

timeline

Trials, approvals, deployments and contracts, dated by the announcement when the source gives no event date.

the rules, and what is changing

the numbers, sliced

every claim, with its source

The concept, the choice of sources and modules, and the layout were set by a human. The code and the research gathering were done with Anthropic's Claude Code under that direction. Every fact shown was required to carry a fetched URL and a verbatim quote from that page before it could appear, an automated pass re-fetched the sources to check that each quote is present, and the Sources view lists the result for every record. Live feeds fail visibly instead of showing stale numbers as fresh. The risks of using AI remain: keyword ranking misfires, quotes can be accurate while the surrounding context is not, and a figure can be superseded. Please flag anything that looks wrong.