South Korean mobility platform TMAP is to join Joby Aviation’s partnership with telecommunications giant SK Telecom to bring urban air mobility to the country. SK Telecom spinoff TMAP jointly owns ride-hailing app UT with Uber, which is an investor in Joby.
The U.S. House Committee of Transportation and Infrastructure on April 28 advanced bills to create the National Center for the Advancement of Aviation to develop the U.S. workforce, provide $200 million in grants to use drones to inspect infrastructure and create a two-year, $25 million pilot program to support development of infrastructure for advanced air mobility.
JetBlue Technology Ventures, the airline’s investment arm, has participated in a $13 million funding round by battery developer Electric Power Systems.
In the latest round of the legal battle between Wisk and Archer, Archer has filed a lawsuit accusing Boeing of launching a media smear campaign intended to harm the rival eVTOL startup.
Turkey’s Istanbul Kultur University is to lead an urban air traffic management (UATM) demonstration program supported by the EIT Urban Mobility initiative of the EU’s European Institute of Innovation and Technology.
Rome airport operator Aeroporti di Roma (ADR) and Italian high-speed rail operator FS Italiane are to build a vertiport at Roma Termini, Rome’s biggest train station, and identify locations for future network expansion.
Shield AI is to begin integrating its Hivemind autonomy software onto Beta Technologies’ Alia electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with funding from the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program.
The companies say they will work together to accelerate the entry of Pyka’s autonomous aircraft into the precision agriculture sector and “pursue opportunities to scale commercial services as autonomous aircraft operations in Brazil evolve in the coming years.”
Heart Aerospace has selected a supplier to complete preliminary design of the doors for its ES-19 all-electric 19-seat regional airliner while Deutsche Aircraft has chosen a company to produce the wing box and engine supports for its D328eco 40-seat regional turboprop.
Shareholders in Atlas Crest Investment approved the blank-check company’s reverse merger with urban air mobility startup Archer Aviation in a Sept. 14 vote.
Startup advanced air mobility company Archer and Atlas Crest Investment Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, have revised downward the value of their proposed merger.
