Advanced Air Mobility

The country that popularized unmanned aircraft systems in modern warfare is at the forefront of a new strategic change.

A weakened air cargo industry faces more challenges in 2020

A new era of high speed civil flight is beckoning but are commercial supersonic or even hypersonic aircraft justifiable amid rising concerns over aviation’s environmental impact? Guy Norris and Graham Warwick discuss this and other topics from AIAA’s annual SciTech forum where the global challenge of achieving sustainable aviation took center stage.

Toyota buoys Joby; EHang outlines UAM thinking; HAV refines airship design; France studies Stratobus; CityAirbus flies untethered.

The air vehicle was lost during the ground-recovery sequence, but Dynetics noted it has four test vehicles remaining.

Leonardo has conducted the long-awaited first flight of its Falco Xplorer unmanned aircraft system. The 1.3-metric-ton, medium-altitude, long

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.