Advanced Air Mobility

UP.Partners is an early-stage venture capital company focused on funding startups developing enabling technologies for advanced mobility. UP was established in January 2020 by Ben Marcus and Cyrus Sigari, co-founders of private jet dealer jetAVIVA and drone airspace services provider AirMap.

The dispute between eVTOL-developers Wisk and Archer Aviation over intellectual property escalated on June 23 as Archer filed a counterclaim.

Embraer subsidiary Eve Urban Air Mobility has agreed to supply Blade with 60,000 flight hours a year of service in Southern California and the West Coast beginning in 2026.

Airline eVTOL shuttle services could be on the horizon.

Infrastructure alliances are forming as the launch of advanced air mobility draws nearer.

For a five-year-old startup, EP Systems has already accumulated unrivaled experience in designing energy storage systems for electric aircraft.

Working groups are evaluating a variety of solutions to some of the toughest issues in urban air mobility operations, including where the aircraft will operate and how they will enter and exit that airspace.

After a battery fire destroyed its demonstrator, Lilium has revamped the energy storage system in its eVTOL air taxi.

Fractional ownership companies Jet It and JetClub are the launch customers for Bye Aerospace’s eight-seat, all-electric twin turboprop aircraft, the eFlyer 800.

Volocopter conducted a remotely controlled flight of its 2X prototype at Le Bourget Airport outside Paris on June 21, the first in France by an eVTOL vehicle.

Qarbon Aerospace, formerly Triumph Aerospace Structures, is to produce Lift Aircraft’s Hexa single-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

Russian eSTOL demonstrator; MagniX unveils EPUs; JAXA promotes supersonics; Racing eVTOL flies; and Ascendance tests hybrid.

Italian civil aviation authority ENAC, air navigation service provider ENAV and airport operator Aeroporti di Roma have signed a letter of intent to coordinate on services, technologies and infrastructure for advanced air mobility.

Setbacks come with the territory when it comes to developing aircraft, according to Alastair McIntosh, chief technology officer of electric air-taxi developer Lilium.

Countries participating in the CORUS-XUAM project in Europe are planning to spend this year preparing for live demonstrations to be held in 2022.

Boeing CEO David Calhoun explains why the company's involvement with Wisk is so important.

Certification by 2024, 1,000 aircraft a year by 2026, $1/seat-mile costs among Vertical’s lofty goals.

The prototype of a high-performance electric vertical-takeoff aircraft for a new racing series has completed its first flights in South Australia

Enabling type certification of electric air taxis is a priority for the FAA, but equally important is ensuring these new types of aircraft can operate at scale in the U.S. national airspace system, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson has told Aviation Week.

The UAM coalition has been formed by the EU-funded projects Flying Forward 2020 (FF2020), AiRMOUR and Aurora, and is open to other programs.

Automaker Hyundai and the Seoul metropolitan government have signed a memorandum of understanding to enable the development of urban air mobility (UAM) in the South Korean capital.

With a flare-up in coronavirus cases in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong seemingly on the wane, EHang has revealed it deployed its autonomous air vehicles to support COVID-19 relief and control efforts in Guangzhou.

The partnership will see Eve’s vehicles added to Singapore-based Ascent's flight booking application once they are available.

Targeting FAA certification by late 2024 or early 2025, the Denver, Colorado-based company’s ambitious test and development plan calls for assembly and first flight of the initial TriFan 600 test aircraft within the next 20 months.

Kitty Hawk has set an aggressive goal of achieving FAA certification of the Heaviside within three years.