electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL)

By Ben Goldstein
Skyports Infrastructure is pressing ahead with vertiport development across multiple markets.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Even as the broader stock market has weakened since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran on Feb. 28, the eVTOL sector has badly underperformed.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Alt Air has partnered with eVTOL manufacturer Eve Air Mobility and vertiports developer Skyports Infrastructure.
Business_Aviation_AAM_departments

By Graham Warwick
Pittsburgh-based Near Earth is flight-testing its modular autonomy system in a Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
Business aviation has a proud record of innovation. And, as far as sector insiders are concerned, that is going to include eVTOL aircraft, too.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Stop-fold tiltrotor becomes X-76; Sikorsky tests hybrid powertrain; light-driven SAF production; and from nuclear power to liquid fuel.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Safran Helicopter Engines has begun assembly of the first 600-kW TG600 turbogenerator for U.S. startup Electra.aero’s prototype EL-9 hybrid eSTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Eve Air Mobility’s EVE-100 eVTOL engineering prototype transitioned from vertical to horizontal flight for the first time on March 10.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
AirX, a private jet operator in Europe, is upgrading its Bombardier Challenger 850 aircraft with the Gogo Plane Simple Ku-band terminal.
Business_Aviation_AAM_departments

By Guy Norris
The U.S. public-private eVTOL aircraft Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) will be challenging but also provides a key opportunity for advancing electric aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
DOT and FAA have selected eight pilot projects across the country to test operations involving eVTOL and other AAM aircraft under the new public-private eIPP.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Japanese eVTOL developer SkyDrive has agreed to a general certification plan for its three-seater SD-05 with the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The stop-fold tiltrotor uncrewed aircraft under development by Bell for a DARPA project to fly a high-speed VTOL demonstrator has been designated the X-76.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
The middle mile between large freighters and van deliveries is notoriously inefficient. A new generation of startups is confident it has the solution.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Readers write about the FARA cancellation, crewed space exploration, the late Robert Liebeck and the world’s largest eVTOL air taxi.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Ben Goldstein
Vertical Aerospace's CEO discuses the Valo eVTOL air taxi, which is planned to launch by 2027 and certify by 2028.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
AAM developers developers are increasingly leaning on simulation to overcome challenges that span pilot training, engineering and aircraft design.
Maintenance & Training

By Ben Goldstein
It appears that Hyundai Motor Group subsidiary Supernal has conceded that its advanced air mobility ambitions will not come to fruition any time soon.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Archer Aviation has begun piloted vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flight testing of its Midnight eVTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
AIR Tashkent of Uzbekistan and Samson Sky of the U.S. have completed an agreement to bring the Switchblade Flying Car to Uzbekistan in Central Asia.
Business_Aviation_AAM_departments

By Graham Warwick
It has many identities, but civil aviation beyond the scheduled airlines stands at a cusp.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Marc Sellouk, founder and chair of Flyte, started his first company, a tech company, in 1998 then found himself looking for the next challenge.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Joby Aviation said it made substantial certification progress in Q4, as it prepares to begin certification flight testing with its first conforming aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
U.S. startup MightyFly has raised $10 million to accelerate development and early deployments of its autonomous hybrid eVTOL logistics aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Singaporean eVTOL demonstrator; missile-launching uncrewed X-plane; BWB goes double-deck; and cheaper SAF by co-electrolysis.
Emerging Technologies