Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Organizers have postponed the Latin American Business & Aviation Conference and Exhibition 2021 planned for November, the second year the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a change of dates.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Startup HyPoint has entered into a $6.5 million collaborative agreement with Piasecki Aircraft to develop a hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system for electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
PteroDynamics has received a U.S. Navy contract to deliver prototype vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft for a program to develop a capability to autonomously deliver cargo to and from ships at sea.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is investigating a second midair collision involving a police drone and an aircraft in the last 18 months.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Embraer company Eve Urban Air Mobility is expanding its list of customers well ahead of entering the market with an electric vertical takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Switzerland’s Dufour Aerospace is unusual among electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing startups in targeting the established helicopter market, and in particular emergency medical services.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Velis Electro in the U.S.; Honeywell UAV satcom; water-based cubesat propulsion; faster SAF path; drone delivery partnership.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Disruptive innovation by startups could play a key role in enabling a sustainable future for aviation, but the sector is barely being considered by investors, the Hamburg-based Sustainable Aero Lab says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
Ampaire completes trial flights with hybrid-electric testbed on regional airline route in Scotland.
Emerging Technologies

By Angus Batey
Supported by the UK’s Future Flight Challenge, the SATE project is establishing a low-carbon aviation test center at Kirkwall.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Founded 18 years ago, Israel’s Urban Aeronautics has a new CEO and a renewed commitment to its namesake market.
Advanced Air Mobility

Overair, Inc. joins the list of companies the Advanced Air Mobile Report includes in company profiles and vehicle specifications with its Butterfly tiltrotor.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
As it prepares to launch its third and final phase, the UK’s Future Flight Challenge has unveiled its vision for air travel in 2030 and ambitious targets for real-world demonstrations to be completed in 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Companies in Hong Kong and India have unveiled their plans to develop electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxis.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Embraer has begun flight testing an electric propulsion demonstrator as it targets the introduction of its first all-electric aircraft, the Eve urban air taxi, in 2026.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Pyka electric regional; ZeroAvia hydrogen power train; Transcend picks Kaman; Robotic helicopter refueling; and SkyDrive teams with JAXA.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
X Prime programs would fill the gap between experimental X-planes and Y-plane prototypes.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
It was a week of ups and downs for the urban air mobility (UAM) industry, illustrating the turbulence roiling the nascent market as companies jockey for leading positions.
Advanced Air Mobility

Infrastructure investment manager Foresight Group LPP will place £4.75 million ($6.6 million) in aviation research and development firm Callen-Lenz Associates Ltd.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Opener’s BlackFly might start its life as a toy for the affluent early adopter, as did the Ski-Doo and the Sea-Doo, but its designer believes the single-seat electric vertical-takeoff vehicle will ultimately find multiple practical uses.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
With an autonomous electric aircraft already in production and operation, U.S. startup Pyka has unveiled plans to develop a larger aircraft for the regional cargo and passenger markets.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Africa has emerged as a proving ground for drone delivery, headlined by Zipline’s large-scale on-demand medical delivery networks in Rwanda, Ghana and now Nigeria. Now the continent is turning its attention to urban air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange, a milestone on its 15-year journey to launch commercial aerial ridesharing services in the U.S. in 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Carole Rickard Hedden
Over the course of the last five years, the world of advanced air mobility has marched from seeming fiction into reality, with at least one of the original pioneers shifting off center stage into the wings to focus on core competencies.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Reusable hypersonics; HAPS for 6G; funding for Elroy; Kitplane eVTOL; Air Methods medical drones; and hydrogen conversions.
Emerging Technologies