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Japan Airlines Partners With Donecle For Automated Aircraft Checks
Japan Airlines (JAL) and French drone manufacturer Donecle have launched a joint project using fully autonomous drones for exterior aircraft inspections, marking a significant step toward automating one of aviation maintenance’s most time-consuming and physically demanding tasks. The partnership deploys Donecle’s Iris GVI drones inside JAL’s hangars to capture high-resolution images of aircraft exteriors, replacing traditional manual visual inspections. This initiative was first reported by AeroTime.