Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Solving that challenge is doubly important for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Data from payloads fitted to the aircraft, including electro-optical cameras and radar imagery, will be sent from the UAS to a Geo-Information Center.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Bengaluru-based startup Sarla Aviation unveiled its prototype Shunya air taxi on Jan. 20.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
But despite the high hopes, industry watchers generally agree that air taxi operations will not be profitable until they reach scale.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Planned for the summer, the flight will involve Beta’s conventional-takeoff-and-landing Alia CTOL.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Heart’s full-scale demonstrator has arrived in the U.S. as the Swedish startup prepares to conduct the first flight of the 105-ft.-span electric aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
With the first eVTOL air taxis expected to enter into service as soon as this year, industry stakeholders are racing to assemble the pieces for a smooth launch.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
The FAA plans to conduct additional flight testing with eVTOL OEMs as it works to develop unified performance-based design rules for vertiports and heliports.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Wisk’s Vice President for Certification Cindy Comer recently caught up with Aviation week to discuss the company’s progress toward its G-1 certification basis.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The acquisition of Ferrovial Vertiports, announced Jan. 8, came after a pivot by Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial away from the vertiport business in late 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
China’s Zero Gravity Aircraft Industry has signed a purchase agreement with Shenzhen Yingwu General Aviation for ZG-One two-seat eVTOL.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Andrew Clare has taken over as CEO from co-founder Dave Merrill.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The introduction of the downwash caution area (DCA) was the result of flight surveys of multiple prototype eVTOL aircraft for the FAA.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
Company staff explained details of progress on aircraft design and build, battery development and flight testing, as work continues to certify the platform.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
BAE Systems plans to provide the energy storage system for an Airbus project to demonstrate microhybridization for commercial aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
The divergence between the prospects of eVTOL startups in Europe and the U.S. is growing starker by the week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
FEAM’s new partnership with UrbanLink Air Mobility follows similar partnerships established with other advanced air mobility companies in 2024.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Dubbed the Dubai International Vertiport (DVX), the facility is to be the first of a planned network of four vertiports that Skyports will build and operate.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The first application is the Sky One, a modified Robinson R66 light helicopter.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Graham Warwick
Flight testing of a hybrid-electric powertrain on an ATR 72 demonstrator has been included in the third call for proposals for Clean Aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The licensing initiative comes after ARC announced late last year that it plans to sell off the C600 program.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The Daegu-based company has released video showing an uncrewed tethered hover test of a full-scale prototype of the two-seat HAM-III-2 in December.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
A subsidiary of Chinese automaker XPeng, Aero HT’s Land Aircraft Carrier features a six-propeller electric multicopter.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The companies will also work together to develop large-area displays for next-generation cockpits with thinner, higher resolution screens.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Vertical said on Jan. 8 that it has completed an initial series of piloted, low-speed thrust-borne flight maneuvers.
Advanced Air Mobility