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By Bill Carey
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.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Graham Warwick
Finalizing aircraft certification plans and filling out the mobility ecosystem are priorities for 2022.
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By Graham Warwick
China’s eVTOL leader shifts strategy from aircraft sales to mobility service.
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By Graham Warwick
The time to wait and see is over, with Airbus, Embraer and others stepping up their commitment to the AAM market.
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By Carole Rickard Hedden
Roei Ganzarski, one of advanced air mobility’s resounding voices and leaders, announced Jan. 6 that he is leaving MagniX and Eviation Aircraft.
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By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation has formally added a second preproduction prototype to the test program for its S4 tiltprop electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
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By Michael Bruno
Eaton, a mid-tier aerospace and defense supplier, has acquired Royal Power Solutions, a U.S.-based manufacturer of high-precision electrical connectivity components used in electric vehicle, energy management, industrial and mobility markets.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Michigan and Ontario officials have unveiled a cross-border research study of commercial drones to explore whether small unmanned aircraft can be flown beyond line of sight and used for just-in-time delivery, medical transport or other small-scale deployments.
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By Bill Carey, Sean Broderick
The U.S. aviation and telecommunications industries have deescalated—at least temporarily—their clash over an issue that threatens to further disrupt airline operations during the COVID-19 pandemic: the potential of new 5G wireless networks interfering with aircraft electronics.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
After playing out through most of 2020 and 2021 for the electric vertical takeoff and landing industry, the process of assembling memorandums of understanding, letters of intent and other expressions of interest to bolster fundraising drives is underway in other parts of the evolving advanced air mobility market.
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EHang has established an air mobility experience center in Guangzhou, China, which includes a rooftop vertiport and hangar.
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By Graham Warwick, Tony Osborne
Embraer’s Eve Urban Air Mobility finished out 2021 with two major announcements—plans to go public and plans to study potential military missions for the Eve eVTOL aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
New Zealand startup Kea Aerospace has conducted a 14 hr. 3 min. test flight of a subscale prototype as it continues development of a large, solar-powered unmanned aircraft capable of remaining aloft in the stratosphere for months.
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By Bill Carey
AT&T and Verizon have agreed to delay deploying 5G wireless services using C-band spectrum for two weeks beyond the scheduled Jan. 5 start date, giving the FAA more time to prevent airspace system disruptions arising from the potential of interference with aircraft radio altimeters.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Korean Air has demonstrated the visual inspection of an aircraft using multiple drones simultaneously.
Maintenance & Training

By Graham Warwick
Sustainable aviation and advanced air mobility are the focus of the fifth round of research projects selected under NASA’s University Leadership Initiative.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
South Korea’s Hanwha Systems is to lead development of a hydrogen fuel-cell system to power future advanced air mobility vehicles.
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By Graham Warwick
In the first such move by a leader in the advanced air mobility market, Joby Aviation has acquired Austrian radar designer Inras to prepare for more complex, and eventually autonomous, operations of its electric urban air taxi.
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By Graham Warwick
China’s EHang has announced the first order for its VT-30 long-range autonomous air taxi, now in flight testing.
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By Graham Warwick
German drone delivery company Wingcopter has secured a new investor in Latin America as it expands its global presence.
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By Graham Warwick
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has demonstrated an end-to-end delivery operation using an unmanned cargo aircraft and a ground robot.
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By Graham Warwick
The first so-called gigafactory built by a European battery company has been commissioned, with the assembly of its first lithium-ion cell.
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By Bill Carey
Behind the scenes of the aviation and telecommunications industries’ clash over 5G wireless transmissions, aviation standards organization RTCA is developing performance specifications for a new generation of radio altimeters that would be hardened against 5G interference.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
Telecommunications giants AT&T and Verizon have refused a high-level U.S. government appeal to delay activating new 5G wireless networks on Jan. 5 as scheduled, offering instead to draw temporary exclusion zones around certain airports to protect against the possibility of interference with aircraft radio altimeters.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
As ZeroAvia prepares to fly its modified Dornier 228 hydrogen-electric propulsion system testbed, details of the mobile refueling system that will support flight testing are emerging.
Aircraft & Propulsion