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By Graham Warwick
Backed by Chinese electric car maker XPeng, startup HT Aero has reached agreement to raise more than $500 million to develop an integrated flying and driving vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A central tenet of Uber’s Elevate vision for urban aerial ride sharing was that this is commercial air transport—aircraft owned by airlines and flown by professional pilots plying between vertiports.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Used business aircraft prices have increased 20% to 30% due to historically low inventory and a backlog of new aircraft orders, an International Aircraft Dealers Association survey of its dealers shows.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
With investors including Alaska Air Group, UP.Partners has closed a $230 million early stage venture capital fund dedicated to supporting companies enabling future mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Germany’s Volocopter has partnered with Austrian commercial vehicle manufacturer Schwarzmuller to develop a mobile takeoff and landing platform for the VoloDrone electric unmanned cargo aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Reliable Robotics has raised an additional $100 million in funding to continue development of its remotely operated aircraft system for cargo and passenger aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
China’s AutoFlight debuted its planned V1500M electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi at Airshow China 2021 in Zhuhai at the end of September.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Fuel-cell developer and green-hydrogen producer Plug Power has announced partnerships with both Airbus and startup Airflow to bring zero-emission hydrogen propulsion to aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Leidos is offering the Bombardier Challenger 650 as a fleet replacement or contractor-operator service for the U.S. Army’s RC-12X Guardrail Common Sensor.
AUSA

By Graham Warwick
The first announced application for EP Systems’ EPiC lithium-ion battery module, the eDA40 is designed for use as an electric circuit trainer.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Volocopter and logistics company DB Schenker conducted the first public demonstration of the VoloDrone heavy-lift unmanned cargo aircraft at the ITS World Congress in Hamburg on Oct. 12.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Austrian startup CycloTech has begun tethered flight tests of a demonstrator equipped with its cycloidal rotor technology for vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Lessor LCI Helicopters’ parent has bought out minority stakeholder KKR, returning ownership to the founding Libra Group after seven years, the companies announced Oct. 11.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
As Rolls-Royce continues its push into electrified propulsion, the engine maker has signed an agreement to establish facilities in Germany for developing, testing and producing hybrid-electric power trains.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. battery startup Lyten is looking to electric aircraft as a potential early market for its energy-dense lithium-sulfur batteries as it scales up to meet expected demand from the automotive industry by 2025-26.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A shift from electric and hybrid-electric propulsion toward hydrogen is evident among sustainable aircraft projects announced so far this year, according to European consultancy Roland Berger.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Prometheus Fuels expects to begin delivering commercial quantities of its carbon-neutral sustainable aviation fuel toward the end of 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
A day after announcing a vaccinated travel lane (VTL) with South Korea, the Singapore government revealed eight more partner countries in Europe and North America.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Paul Seidenman
CitationPartners plans to make its Citation Excel Eagle airframe and flight deck upgrade program available to all owners of the popular Citation Excel family, including the Excel, XLS, and XLS+.
Flight Deck

By Graham Warwick
Startup VerdeGo Aero has validated the efficiency of its VH-3 hybrid-electric powerplant in more than 500 full-scale ground tests of prototype systems since mid-2020.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Oxford University spinout Brill Power has launched a new type of battery management system that can increase storage capacity and lifetime.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
EC Power has received a U.S. Air Force contract to develop a lithium-ion battery cell capable of extreme fast charging of electrified aircraft and ground vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
NetJets has paused sales of its jet cards, fractional shares and leases of its Embraer Phenom jets, Textron Aviation Citation XLS and Citation Latitude aircraft, an expansion of an earlier temporary halt of sales because of unprecedented demand for the products.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
Over the next 10 years, Aviation Week Intelligence Network Fleet & Data Services forecasts deliveries of more than 7,900 business jets and 2,700 turboprops, for a total of 10,600 aircraft valued at $240 billion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Ann Shay, Bill Carey, Molly McMillin
Gulfstream’s recent debut of two new business jet models—the $34.5 million large-cabin G400 and its longest-range business jet, the $71.5 million G800—fills out its product line in a strategy that began in 2006.
Aircraft & Propulsion