Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Key collaborations have been announced by Australia’s fledgling sustainable aviation industry to advance development of electric- and hydrogen-powered aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Sustainability and decarbonization were front and center at the two-day “Airbus Summit” held in Toulouse on March 24-25.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
ZeroAvia and Reliable Robotics are studying the integration of hydrogen-electric propulsion onto a Cessna with automation tech to make an uncrewed aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
ZeroAvia is working with U.S. and UK regulators to certify elements of its hydrogen-electric powertrain.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The process to select a site for production of the planned Kona blended wing body regional cargo aircraft has been launched by Natilus.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
The United Aircraft TD500 co-axial uncrewed helicopter has attained type certification from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Victoria Moores
The UK Civil Aviation Authority is planning at least two larger-scale beyond visual line of sight UAV trials before the end of 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The first untethered hover flight of a full-scale engineering prototype of the LE200 eVTOL has been completed by Chinese startup Range Aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The FAA has accepted XTI Aerospace's application for type certification of the TriFan 600 VTOL business aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Australia has awarded vertiport startup Skyportz a provisional patent for a vertipad design that ameliorates a potential issue with eVTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
The wing was made using new production techniques and was subjected to progressive loads that exceeded the expected load limit by more than 200%, Embraer says.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Letters of intent to acquire the Ultra Short come from more than 50 companies and Electra.aero values those preorders at nearly $9 billion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
Little attention has been paid to the use of small, unmanned aircraft, or drones, presumably because they will not carry passengers.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Rune Aero is using an interactive virtual wind tunnel powered by physics-based machine learning algorithms to optimize an autonomous cargo aircraft design.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Pyka has begun commercial operations in three countries using its fixed-wing, all-electric aerial application drone.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Eve Air Mobility and South Korean operator UI Helicopter have signed a memorandum of understanding to help develop an AAM ecosystem in South Korea.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Beyond Aero has unveiled major changes in the design of its One business jet, a 6- to 8-seat, 800 nm-range aircraft relying on hydrogen-electric propulsion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
The Virgin-Joby pairing marks a major loss for Bristol-based Vertical.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Yitong UAV System's TP1000 has joined the growing ranks of airborne uncrewed cargo aircraft in China after making its first flight on March 15.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
By selling aircraft to its partners in Abu Dhabi, Archer says it can generate up to $20 million in revenues. It aims to replicate the program in numerous markets eventually.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Metro has ordered up to 20 ALIA eVTOLs for integration into its EMS operation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The Guangzhou-based company delivered 78 EH216-S autonomous multicopters in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Autonomous aviation safety, communications and reliability will be advanced under three multi-year research projects award grants by NASA.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The company says it has completed the thrust-borne portion of its flight test campaign.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Vertical Aerospace has appointed Eamonn Brennan, former director general of Eurocontrol and chief executive of the Irish Aviation Authority, as an adviser to its board.
Advanced Air Mobility