Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation has partnered with L3Harris to develop a hybrid eVTOL aircraft for defense applications—an optionally piloted, turbine hybrid version of its S4.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Pyka has won a firm order for 60 autonomous crop duster aircraft to be sold to a Brazilian distributor.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
German aerospace researcher John Lou has made a name for himself as a thought leader in advanced air mobility circles. Now, he's developing a battlefield drone.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Israeli eVTOL startup AIR has raised $23 million in a Series A funding round, intended to finance expansion of its U.S. operations.
Advanced Air Mobility

JENNIFER MESZAROS
Emerson Xu, CEO and co-founder of NexAvian, sat down with Aviation Week to share his insights.
Advanced Air Mobility

Zaynab Zlitni
Urban-Air Port, a British vertiport infrastructure company, has teamed up with Indian eVTOL developer Nalwa Aero to develop a UAM network in India.
Advanced Air Mobility

Zaynab Zlitni
UrbanLink Air Mobility will lease up to 10 Beta Technologies Alia electric conventional-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
LOCKHEED gets $2b THAAD award... SFL MISSIONS developing Norwegian maritime nanosatellite... ZENATECH forms AI-focused U.S. subsidiary...
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A graphic illustration of projected entry-into-service dates for AAM OEMs. Credit: SMG Consulting
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Robert Wall
The European cooperative armaments agency Occar has reached an agreement with industry to adjust the requirements for the Eurodrone UAS.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
An FAA advisory circular is expected to make it easier for new applicants to reach agreement with the regulator on the type certification basis for eVTOLs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A U.S. court on July 21 denied a motion to dismiss a stockholder suit challenging Archer’s $1.7 billion 2021 merger with Atlas Crest Investments.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Reliable Robotics and the U.S. Air Force have agreed to develop an Autonomy Government Reference Architecture framework for autonomous collaborative platforms.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Beta Technologies has partnered with Scalable Technologies for automatic display alignment of its in-house-developed, direct-projection-based flight simulators.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The FAA has issued its long-awaited MOSAIC rule, capping a multi-year effort to revamp its outdated Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) regulations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Steve Trimble, Ben Goldstein
MagniX will start experimenting with electric propulsion for turbine-powered rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Zaynab Zlitni
SkyGrid has issued a white paper examining safety challenges associated with integrating Third-Party Service Providers into the National Airspace System.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Chinese startup Autoflight’s eVTOL cargo drone, the V2000CG CarryAll, has received airworthiness certification from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble, Ben Goldstein
Jaunt Air Mobility revealed plans to introduce a medium-sized cargo drone for the middle-mile logistics market in 2 1/2 years.
Advanced Air Mobility

Zaynab Zlitni
U.S. drone manufacturer Blueflite will take part in a drone delivery initiative focused on transporting automotive parts by air.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Japanese eVTOL developer SkyDrive announced plans to launch into repeated demonstration flights with its multicopter eVTOL.
Advanced Air Mobility

Zaynab Zlitni
Dexa, a U.S.-based autonomous drone delivery company, has received a national waiver from the FAA authorizing its drones to operate BVLOS.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Hartzell Propeller has received the first FAA Part 35 type certification of a propeller designed specifically for electric aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Michigan is to create an advanced air mobility (AAM) testbed.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The proliferation of Chinese eVTOL makers in SMG Consulting’s AAM Reality Index shows no sign of abating.
Advanced Air Mobility