ANA Holdings, parent company of All Nippon Airways, is cooperating with Japanese startup Aeronext on the development of delivery drones with the goal of beginning commercial operations in 2022-23.

Bye Aerospace is to begin work on the first production-conforming prototype of its eFlyer 2 electric training aircraft after closing $10 million in strategic and venture financing.

Drone delivery company Volansi is to partner with U.S. Special Operations Command to demonstrate its Voly M20 long-range cargo unmanned aircraft under a small business contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force.

Australian air taxi startup AMSL Aero is to build a flight-test center at Narromine in New South Wales thanks to an A$950,000 ($660,000) grant from the state government. AMSL is developing the Vertiia, a two-passenger tandem tilt-wing electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.

Dassault Aviation is making steady progress toward an early 2021 planned first flight for its latest and roomiest aircraft, the Falcon 6X, despite the upheaval caused by the coronavirus epidemic.

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The FAA has joined NASA in using the phrase Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) to describe a broader vision for what until recently has been called urban air mobility (UAM).

Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 6X large, long-range business jet remains on schedule, despite challenges from the novel coronavirus pandemic, with first flight planned for early 2021, the company says.