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Advanced Air Mobility Report, July 21, 2021

VOL. 1 NO. 7 July 21, 2021
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Operations

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Volocopter First To Team With CAE On eVTOL Training

Jul 16, 2021
Advanced air mobility offers a clean sheet for development of training centered on pilot competencies rather than traditional prescriptive models, says CAE, as the training provider partners with Volocopter to support the German startup’s electric air taxi services.
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Edmonton Airport To Test Expedited Drone Deliveries

Jul 13, 2021
Drone Delivery Canada plans to test expedited deliveries from Edmonton International Airport in Alberta to local businesses under a yearlong project with the airport, Apple Express Courier and Ziing Final Mile.
ATR flight with SAF
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Swedish Airport Operator Eyes Electric Flights

Jul 12, 2021
Swedish airport operator Swedavia is to study an electric air route between Umeå (UME) and Åre Östersund (OSD) airports in northern Sweden.

AAM Appointments

Infrastructure

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EHang Partners With Spanish Infrastructure Manager On UAM

Jul 14, 2021
Building on its concessions to manage highways, railways and tunnels in several countries, Spain’s Globalvia is expanding into urban air mobility through a strategic alliance with Chinese autonomous passenger and cargo air vehicle developer EHang.
Charging
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Charging Infrastructure Comes Into Focus As Electric Aviation Advances

Jul 15, 2021
Embraer’s Eve Urban Air Mobility Solutions has partnered with an energy company to evaluate development of a viable charging infrastructure for electric air taxis.

Business

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NASA Names Partners For First Full AAM National Campaign

Jul 12, 2021
NASA has added aircraft autonomy developer Reliable Robotics and 13 other entities to the list of partners that will participate in the agency’s first Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign in 2022.
VoltAero Cassio 330
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VoltAero Selects Hybrid-Electric Cassio’s Final-Assembly Site

Jul 12, 2021
French hybrid-electric aircraft startup VoltAero has selected Rochefort Charente-Maritime Airport in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwest France for its final-assembly plant.
Heart
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United, Mesa Back Swedish Electric Regional Airliner Startup Heart

Jul 13, 2021
United Airlines and its regional affiliate Mesa Airlines have conditionally agreed to order 200 19-passenger electric airliners from Heart Aerospace as they participated in the Swedish startup's $35 million Series A funding round.
Volocopter VoloConnect
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Long Wait For Return On UAM Investment, Report Says

Jul 13, 2021
Only a fraction of the investment required to make urban air mobility (UAM) an economically or socially relevant mode of transportation has been raised, and players in the market will need to take the long view if they want to see a return on their investment, cautions a report by Porsche Consulting.
Astro Alta eVTOL
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Astro Hopes For Return To eVTOL Leadership

Jul 09, 2021
In 2018, Astro Aerospace became one of the first companies to fly a full-scale electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle. That same year, Astro became the first startup targeting the urban-air-mobility market to go public. But then the company went quiet.

Regulatory

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Race To EIS Covers Six-Year Span

Jul 21, 2021
As the advanced air mobility sector continues to shape and shift at pace with the technological advances and regulatory and legal realities, the real question remains: When will the new aircraft emerge on a widely accepted basis?

Technology Developments

Hydrogen
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Universal Hydrogen Signs Propulsion Retrofit Deals With Regional Airlines

Jul 14, 2021
Universal Hydrogen will retrofit ATR 72 and de Havilland Canada Dash 8 regional turboprops operated by Icelandair, Air Nostrum and Ravn Alaska with hydrogen fuel-cell power trains.
Bye Aerospace aircraft
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All-Electric Aircraft Takes On Dominant Twin Turboprop

Jul 15, 2021
Bye Aerospace doubles down on its lead in certifying electric aircraft to directly target the turboprop-twin business aircraft market.