electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL)

By Ben Goldstein
Certifying an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi is prohibitively expensive. With markets tight, some startups are changing course.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Megawatt hybrid power for U.S. Army, Terrain fingerprints for navigation, Australian eVTOL flies and H3’s 400-kW fuel cell.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
The AAM industry has endured a tough couple of years, during which capital markets have mostly dried up for all but the most bullish market leaders.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Bird-inspired anti-stall flaps; green flightpaths; deflected-thrust eVTOL; and hydrogen refueling guidelines.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
The bevy of AAM news from Zhuhai Airshow is the clearest signal yet of the seriousness with which Beijing is proceeding in its push to create a nationwide low-altitude economy.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Electric aircraft can be accommodated by existing infrastructure initially, but will require further investment to scale their operations.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Suzhou-based WeFly says the agreement with Ruohang is the largest single eVTOL purchase order so far signed in China.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The aircraft is designed for use in urban and intercity transportation, for business travel, sightseeing, medical services and logistics transportation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The facility is to be the first vertiport in the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) company’s air taxi network in Dubai.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Vertical Aerospace unveiled its Flightpath 2030 strategic plan, spelling out an ambitious set of goals related to production, finances and tech development.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
As Airshow China opens in Zhuhai, Aerofugia has unveiled the production configuration of its AE200 electric air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Under the Seoul Urban Air Mobility dFuture Vision, the city plans to begin by building vertiports at four locations by 2030.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Texas-based Lift will license its branded fixed-location recreational eVTOL facilities to Japanese trading giant Marubeni.
Advanced Air Mobility

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

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. regulator responds to industry concerns by offering alternative pathways for powered-lift training and operating limits.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Joby’s 523-mi. (841-km) flight in a hydrogen-powered S4 air taxi over the summer was groundbreaking for two major reasons.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The BlackBird demonstrator is planned to fly in early 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Switzerland’s Smartflyer rolled out is SFX1 prototype electric aircraft at Grenchen Airport on Nov. 6.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Chinese electric air taxi startups Vertaxi and Volant Aerotech have announced a slew of preorders.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The aircraft will use a hybrid-electric range extender that XPeng has introduced for its electric vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The first conforming subassembly, an S4 tail, has been completed and is now undergoing conformity inspection by the FAA.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
A prototype, registered D-HECA, flew for the first time on Nov. 6, Airbus Helicopters CEO Bruno Even revealed on social media.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Lilium burned through more than $1.4 billion without achieving first flight of its Lilium Jet. Shareholders and customers want answers.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Volocopter retained the top slot in the latest edition of the AAM Reality Index.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
Amid the fallout from Lilium’s filing for insolvency, attention is turning to a comparatively little-noticed aspect of the advanced air mobility industry.
Advanced Air Mobility