Joby Aviation

By Ben Goldstein
There are varying degrees of progress for the four major Western eVTOL startups, and they all provided reports for the third quarter of 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The Tokyo metropolitan government has laid out a plan to introduce commercial urban air taxi service by 2030, with Archer Aviation, Joby Aviation and SkyDrive participating in a pilot project.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Joby Aviation has powered on the first aircraft for use in its Type Inspection Authorization flight test campaign.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Beta Technologies has raised more than $1 billion by listing in New York with proceeds set to support the electric aircraft startup's expansion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Joby Aviation announced the start of manufacture of conforming propeller blades for its S4 eVTOL air taxi at its factory in Dayton, Ohio.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Nvidia is bringing its artificial-intelligence (AI) computing magic to safety-critical applications in aviation.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
South Korea has launched the second phase of its advanced air mobility demonstration project with urban demonstration flights in the city of Incheon, bordering the Korean capital Seoul.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Aside from a small handful of startups, the boom in advanced air mobility shows signs of going bust.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jeremy Kariuki
For the first time since its acquisition by Joby, Blade returned to NBAA-BACE 2025 to offer air shuttle rides between the convention center and Henderson Executive Airport.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Archer and Joby are understood to have joined Advanced Air Mobility Group in placing competing bids for Lilium, the insolvent electric aircraft manufacturer.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
China’s EHang held onto its considerable lead in the October 2025 edition of the AAM Reality Index.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation becomes the third electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer to fly a prototype at the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai in Japan.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Joby reveals plans to launch air taxi services in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah by 2027, building on a strategy to begin commercial services next year in Dubai.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Given the delays so far, it remains unlikely that Supernal can enter service any time before early next decade at the soonest
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Leading U.S. eVTOL air taxi startups announced plans to enlist in the U.S. Transportation Department's newly created eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP).
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Hyundai’s U.S. advanced air mobility subsidiary Supernal has paused development of its eVTOL air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
As more focus has concentrated on flight test and manufacturing progress, a new consensus is that Joby is leading Archer by at least a year, possibly several.
Advanced Air Mobility Departments

By Graham Warwick
China’s Liaoning General Aviation Academy has flown the RX1H, a two-seat electric helicopter.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Using eVTOLs to fly premium passengers di­rect to airport terminals has moved a step closer, and the race is on to see who breaks out first.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Joby has concluded exercises with the U.S. Air Force in which it used an automated Cessna Caravan to fly thousands of miles over the Pacific and Hawaii.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Joby has released the results of simulations that show how operations of its S4 tilt prop eVTOL aircraft will blend into the background noise in Los Angeles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Announced earlier in August, the deal is intended to provide Joby with access to Blade’s customer base and terminals in key markets.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Cargo eVTOL transitions; Joby flies airport-to-airport; direct aviation by eSTOL; and drones drive advanced battery demand.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
AAM Briefs: Archer, NASA and more.
Advanced Air Mobility