Rolls-Royce has signed a memorandum of understanding with Luxembourg-based business jet and helicopter service provider and fixed-based operator Luxaviation to collaborate on the development and deployment of advanced air mobility.
Hyundai’s urban air mobility company Supernal has partnered with the U.S. Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to study potential locations and energy demands for a vertiport network in Los Angeles.
Airservices Australia has selected four unmanned traffic management providers to competitively prototype a flight information management system that will support the safe and efficient integration of drones and air taxis into the country’s low-altitude airspace.
The Hamburg Port Authority has formed a technology partnership with drone control center developer HHLA Sky to accelerate use of drones within the German port for logistics, surveillance, inspection and emergency coordination.
Plans to develop a maintenance/repair/overhaul (MRO) cluster at Twente Airport in the Netherlands are to be pared back in favor of exploring services related to testing new technologies and opening to business aviation flights as the site’s organizers plot a long-term pathway.
Gogo Business Aviation says it remains on track to complete a 150-tower 5G air-to-ground network serving the contiguous U.S. by the second half of 2022.
When Tavistock Development completed the master plan for its Lake Nona development in Florida, part of the vision was connectivity for the people living there—a multimodal transportation strategy that includes autonomous ground vehicles and a bicycle network within the community.
In preparation for discussions with partners on building infrastructure to support urban air mobility, Volocopter has released a handbook on the design, construction and operation of its VoloPort modular vertiport.
Ohio’s AAM center of gravity is the Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport, home to the new National Advanced Air Mobility Center of Excellence and the Ohio Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center.
Beta sees its plans for a Tesla Supercharger-style network of chargers as a key differentiator that sets it apart from other developers of eVTOL vehicles.
The test center at Pontoise-Cormeilles will be used for real-world trials of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft and the supporting ecosystem.
Dubai has launched a program to enable drone transportation by creating an infrastructure to test unmanned aircraft in designated areas and develop legislation to enable their implementation.
As urban air mobility leaders target congested cities such as Los Angeles as launch markets for air taxi services, efforts to secure convenient vertiport locations are accelerating.
Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia, is going all-in to develop a complete system to support electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air service, through new partnerships.
Existing composite materials and manufacturing processes will not scale to the production volumes envisioned for advanced air mobility and startups should consider collaborating to qualify new technologies, urges a company formed to help companies scale up manufacturing.
South Korean automaker Hyundai has renamed its urban air mobility division Supernal and plans to begin certification of its electric air taxi in the U.S. in 2024, aiming to launch commercial flights in 2028.
The National Business Aviation Association hailed the final passage by the U.S. House of Representatives of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that contains measures to support efforts to attract and retain aviation workers, fund improvements for general aviation airports and spur next-generation programs.
West Coast-based Archer Aviation plans to head East to set up a network in Miami, powered by Archer’s electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, and in parallel to its efforts to establish a network in Los Angeles.
As firm orders for advanced air mobility aircraft begin to grow—to more than 200 this week as indicated in our October orders count—metropolitan areas around the globe are setting up frameworks to help establish and grow AAM capabilities.
