On the path to implementing pre-commercial services during the Paris 2024 Olympics, a European demonstration program has completed its first field tests of U-space airspace services to support urban and intercity operations with unmanned and manned aircraft.
Malaysian aviation services AeroTree has formed a partnership with China’s EHang to develop urban air mobility and placed a pre-order for 60 autonomous electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.
The project will modify a Dornier 328 regional turboprop with a zero-emission hydrogen-electric powertrain; the demonstrator aircraft is planned to fly in 2025.
Private equity firm DC Capital Partners has bought uAvionix, a seven-year-old developer and manufacturer of miniature avionics for communications, navigation and surveillance applications, including for unmanned aircraft.
Airbus is continuing to build the industrial team for the CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL, partnering with Spirit AeroSystems to design and manufacture the multi-copter’s wings.
The Joby Aviation electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft that crashed on Feb. 16 during a remotely piloted flight test experienced a component failure, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report.
Training systems provider CAE has added another advanced-air-mobility startup to its customer ranks with an agreement to develop the flight-simulation training devices for Joby Aviation’s electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.
Residents' concerns about the impact of nearby flight operations on their land value are especially relevant to urban air mobility as eVTOLs and cargo drones hope to operate in the heart of urban areas.
Robinson Helicopter says it will switch to electric power for its light helicopters when it “makes sense” and is closely watching progress being made by California-based Tier 1 Engineering on a battery-powered R44 conversion program.
Until there is more available data on what a stabilized approach is for an eVTOL aircraft, the FAA will maintain a conservative approach as to how vertiports should be safely built.
The U.S. Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General is to audit the FAA’s certification of urban air mobility aircraft at the request of Congress.
Spirit AeroSystems’ acquisition of the assets of Bombardier’s Short Brothers operation in Northern Ireland in 2020 has accelerated the company’s goal to diversify so it is less reliant on the commercial sector.
Over the course of two days, Aviation Week’s Advanced Air Mobility Report received word of three different agreements designed to attract and establish AAM in specific areas.
Eve Urban Air Mobility leads the advanced air mobility OEMs in orders, with 1,785, followed closely by Vertical Aerospace’s 1,350 orders and EHang’s 1,205 orders.
Volocopter has received a first tranche of $170 million in Series E financing, with additional investment in the pipeline as the German electric vertical takeoff and landing startup works toward launching urban air taxi service in 2024.
U.S. startup CoFlow Jet has struck an agreement with NASA to commercialize deflected-slipstream technology that would enable an electric vertical/short takeoff and landing (eV/STOL) aircraft to transition to efficient cruise without requiring tilting mechanisms or separate lift rotors.
South Korean startup Plana has unveiled plans to develop a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi with the range to enable intercity flights and service entry planned for 2028.
The Workhorse Group may have sold off its SureFly electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi program to Moog, but the U.S. electric delivery truck maker is continuing to develop its Horsefly unmanned aircraft.
Electrifying short-range aviation in the Netherlands will be feasible by 2026, concludes a report by airport consultants NACO and national aerospace research agency Royal NLR.
