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Technologies for air mobility and airships are among a new wave of research projects to be funded by the Canadian government under a program to support decarbonization of the aerospace sector.

SkyGrid has signed anagreement with MIT Lincoln Laboratory to jointly research and develop high-resolution forecast models for low-altitude flying aircraft.

DARPA has launched a prize challenge to demonstrate multicopter uncrewed aircraft that can carry payloads more than four times their weight.

Aside from a small handful of startups, the boom in advanced air mobility shows signs of going bust.

London’s Metropolitan Police service has launched a pilot drone service to see if the technology can help them respond more quickly to emergency calls.

The rising popularity of Collaborative Combat Aircraft has spread to the U.S. Army, which is now considering the reusable systems to augment crewed rotorcraft.

Seneca, a startup developing firefighting drones, raised a $60 million venture capital round to increase production of UAVs.

The seventh China (Tianjin) International Helicopter Exposition had 52 aircraft on display, including new uncrewed eVTOL designs.

China is looking to replicate its dominance in the global electric vehicle and commercial drone markets with the nascent eVTOL industry.

Japanese startup SkyDrive has completed public flights of its SD-05 prototype eVTOL.

The Chinese eVTOL industry is robust.

Textron has eliminated its Textron eAviation innovation-focused subsidiary in a corporate reorganization.

Personal eVTOL maker Jetson made news in September when it delivered its first one-seater recreational aircraft to Anduril founder and CEO Palmer Luckey.

The industrial partners working on the Eurodrone uncrewed aircraft system have completed its critical design review.

U.S. electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies has priced its planned initial public offering at $27-33 per share, for gross proceeds of $675-825 million.

Boeing subsidiary Wisk Aero is gearing up for a first flight of its Gen 6 autonomous eVTOL air taxi “very, very soon,” the startup’s CEO said.

Chinese startup Volant Aerotech has completed the first series of manned flight trials in its VE25-100 lift-plus-cruise eVTOL.

Chinese hybrid eVTOL startup XPeng AeroHT has rebranded itself to Aridge, while also announcing scores of new orders from customers in the Middle East.

China’s EHang has lifted the curtain on its VT35, a long-range, autonomous eVTOL intended for intercity flying.

Vertiports By Atlantic named Cushman & Wakefield as its preferred advisor for site selection and development of its future vertiport network.

London eVTOL operations will require buy-in from existing urban public transportation providers and local and national governmental entities, officials say.

The Coventry, UK, city council has deployed uncrewed aircraft systems on a wide variety of missions.

China’s Aerofugia has rolled out the first AE200-100 eVTOL air taxi off its production line in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

This is providing fresh capital to help onboard new employees and advance flight testing of the Laila uncrewed hybrid eVTOL.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.