Advanced Air Mobility

Autonomous urban air mobility vehicles with centralized command and control will increase safety, Chinese air-taxi developer EHang says in a new white paper.

UAVOS is developing a heavy-lift, long-range delivery drone based on the Robinson R22 light helicopter.

Joby Aviation now is the most well-funded startup in the emerging electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi market.

The Marine commandant points to the MUX effort as an example of requirements creep and how the services must be more disciplined.

Lessons from manned aviation and new technologies can help build a road map to ensure safe operation of unmanned aircraft.

A Twitter posting shows a subscale eVTOL aircraft flying carrying the branding of Chinese automaker Geely.

After finding no evidence of criminal drone activity, Colorado’s Department of Public Safety “scaled back proactive operations."

Airbus conducted the first untethered flight of its CityAirbus eVTOL air-taxi demonstrator at the end of 2019.

Opener, developer of the BlackFly personal eVTOL aircraft, is testing an initial batch of 30 vehicles ahead of a planned North American sales tour.

Brian Schettler, senior managing director of Boeing HorizonX Ventures, chats with Lindsay Bjerregaard at CES about the types of disruptive technologies the company is looking to develop for the future of aerospace.

First flight of Sierra Technical Services' Fifth Generation Aerial Target (5GAT) is scheduled for early 2020.

Britain’s Royal Air Force is gearing up to establish a squadron that will fly the air arm’s first swarming drone unit.

Hyundai, Uber Elevate; EmbraerX UAS cargo team; first-responder eVTOL; JAXA high-speed helo; Bahamas UAS; EHang in U.S.; tunnel upgrade.

A special mission Pilatus PC-12 turboprop operated by the Colorado Department of Public Safety detected no suspicious aircraft while supporting the investigation into a rash of unexplained drone sightings.

Bell has demonstrated for the first time the autonomous flight capability of its V-280 Valor advanced tiltrotor.

EmbraerX is entering the unmanned cargo aircraft market through a collaboration with U.S. startup Elroy Air.

Carmaker Hyundai has announced a UAM partnership with Uber and unveiled a full-scale mockup of its S-A1 eVTOL aircraft.

Weeks into a rash of reported drone sightings in eastern Colorado and part of Nebraska, the FAA on Jan. 6 lacked an explanation for the reports or whether drones were actually involved.

Years in development, the draft regulation would require small drones to send identification and positional data to the ground.

The Alliance Ground System program has faced off political, programmatic, legal and technical hurdles.

Maturing technology and market lead Bell to redesign its Nexus eVTOL around all-electric propulsion for short-range intraurban flights.

Flirtey is preparing to begin routine food deliveries by drone within the largest industrial park in the U.S.

A new U.S. Army program will demo an intel-collecting system with three powerful sensing capabilities in one year and attempt to field the system on a new airborne surveillance fleet starting in five years.

Digital backbone for FVL; USAF eyes eVTOL; autonomous ag aircraft; drone deliveries in industrial park; better carbon fiber for space.

Greek demonstrations promote the General Atomics Reaper’s maritime patrol capabilities.