As it prepares to launch its third and final phase, the UK’s Future Flight Challenge has unveiled its vision for air travel in 2030 and ambitious targets for real-world demonstrations to be completed in 2024.
Opener’s BlackFly might start its life as a toy for the affluent early adopter, as did the Ski-Doo and the Sea-Doo, but its designer believes the single-seat electric vertical-takeoff vehicle will ultimately find multiple practical uses.
Joby Aviation has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange, a milestone on its 15-year journey to launch commercial aerial ridesharing services in the U.S. in 2024.
With analysts projecting that express logistics will be an early and potential large market for electric aircraft, U.S. autonomous cargo aircraft developer Elroy Air has completed a $40 million Series A funding round.
Air medical helicopter operator Air Methods has announced a collaboration with German drone manufacturer Wingcopter to develop a drone delivery network for medical supplies.
Global logistics operator DHL Express has launched a cargo variant of Eviation’s Alice electric regional aircraft as part of pioneering plans to establish a sustainable electric express freight network from 2024 onwards.
With electric aircraft developers continuously seeking better batteries, the assets of a UK developer of high energy-density lithium-sulfur cells have been acquired by Johnson Matthey, a British multinational focused on sustainable technologies.
The leaders in advanced air mobility are planning rapid ramp-ups in production, from tens to thousands of air taxis annually within only a few years, to both enable and dominate the projected trillion-dollar global market for electric air taxis.
Brazilian airline Azul has signed a MOU for the acquisition of 220 Lilium Jets; the companies plan to partner on a regional high-speed transportation system in Brazil.
Regional air mobility startup Electra is teaming under a NASA contract with researchers at the University of Southern California to mature blown lift technologies for electric short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Chinese autonomous air vehicle (AAV) startup EHang has begun operations at its newly commissioned production facility in Yunfu, around 100 mi. west of its Guangzhou headquarters.
With eight issues of the Advanced Air Mobility Report under our belts, one of the staggering pieces of data we have encountered is the number of companies involved in the emerging market.
Backed by XPeng Motors, startup XPeng Huitian has flown the Voyager X2, a two-seat multicopter described as its fifth generation of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.
A U.S. District Court judge has denied Wisk Aero’s petition for a preliminary injunction against Archer Aviation in its legal action accusing the rival urban air mobility startup of stealing its trade secrets.
The technical collaboration with Deutsche Aircraft is the first to be announced to involve the use of Universal Hydrogen’s capsules in an aircraft with another company’s hydrogen propulsion system.
A Los Angeles-based commuter airline plans to purchase up to 150 Cessna Grand Caravan EX turboprops from Textron Aviation with plans to convert them into hybrid-electric aircraft for commercial air travel.
Archer’s claim to have independently developed its electric air taxi design is a “fairy tale,” Wisk alleged in a brief submitted in support of its motion for a preliminary injunction against its urban air mobility (UAM) rival.
Universal Hydrogen will retrofit ATR 72 and de Havilland Canada Dash 8 regional turboprops operated by Icelandair, Air Nostrum and Ravn Alaska with hydrogen fuel-cell power trains.
Drone Delivery Canada plans to test expedited deliveries from Edmonton International Airport in Alberta to local businesses under a yearlong project with the airport, Apple Express Courier and Ziing Final Mile.
The leaders in advanced air mobility are storytellers, and the stories they tell are playing central roles in their plans to raise billions of dollars by going public via mergers with blank-check companies.
