Alphabet subsidiary Wing has paused some of its drone package deliveries in the suburbs of Canberra, Australia, after one of its drones was attacked by a raven.
Beta Technologies has selected Canada’s CAE to develop the pilot and maintenance training program for the Alia electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
A series of large-scale urban air mobility demonstrations are beginning in Europe under projects funded by the EU’s SEAR air traffic management research program.
For one large commuter airline in the U.S., the lessons it is learning as the launch operator of a new conventionally powered aircraft could prove invaluable as it embraces electric aircraft.
The Japanese startup that won the Pratt & Whitney Disruptor Award at the 2020 GoFly Prize event has unveiled its first product, a single-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle it plans to offer as a kit-built experimental aircraft beginning in 2022.
EHang has completed a high-rise fire rescue drill in China involving its unmanned firefighting EH216F and passenger-carry EH216 air vehicles as well as its Falcon B drone.
Vertical Aerospace’s business model differs significantly from those of its advanced air mobility rivals that are also planning to go public via mergers with blank-check companies, and the UK startup thinks that will give it a competitive edge.
Advanced air mobility offers a clean sheet for development of training centered on pilot competencies rather than traditional prescriptive models, says CAE, as the training provider partners with Volocopter to support the German startup’s electric air taxi services.
As alternative propulsion concepts show promise to help decarbonize aviation, leaders in the commercial aviation, advanced air mobility and business aviation markets have joined forces to establish carbon credits for emissions reductions enabled by electric- and hydrogen-powered aircraft.
Australian startup Swoop Aero has completed a study in Mozambique that demonstrated the feasibility of using drones for the cold-chain transport of infectious tuberculosis and COVID-19 laboratory samples.
For unmanned cargo aircraft to operate effectively within a future express logistics system, what happens on the ground is as important as what happens in the air.
Having developed and flown multiple generations of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles since its founding in 2010, Kitty Hawk is on the path to fielding its first product, a two-seat H3 version of the high-performance tilt-prop Heaviside.
Aerovel’s Flexrotor long-endurance vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft has demonstrated operations in gusty winds using an autopilot developed by the University of Washington.
Unmanned traffic management specialist ANRA Technologies has partnered with Hyundai to begin developing the operating environment for advanced air mobility.
Drone delivery system operator Zipline and pharmaceutical company Pfizer have partnered to distribute COVID-19 vaccine as part of a U.S.-led effort to distribute 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to developing countries.
Between receiving EASA certification for the aircraft and its electric propulsion unit in June 2020 and the end of last year, Pipistrel delivered 39 Velis Electros.
Volocopter and Near Earth Autonomy are to test autonomous flight technology on the VoloDrone unmanned cargo aircraft. The team plans a beyond-visual-line-of-sight capability demonstration in Munich in 2022.
