Advanced Air Mobility

Chinese electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing developer EHang has signed a cooperation agreement with the city government of Seville to launch its first urban air mobility pilot program in Spain.

Safran powers VoltAero; scaling quantum computers; automating dogfighting; eVTOL in Norway; safer batteries; drone delivery bases.

A bigger engine and more powerful tail fan feature in revised design for Vy 400 tiltwing intercity VTOL commuter.

Defense electronics specialist Hensoldt and air traffic management system (ATM) supplier Frequentis have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to increase their collaboration on developing integrated counter-drone systems for airports.

China’s EHang is to begin non-passenger test flights of its EHang 216 autonomous air taxi with a customer in Norway after receiving an operational permit from that country’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAA).

The U.S. Marine Corps now is pursuing an unmanned family of systems for its Marine Air-Ground Task Force Unmanned Aircraft Expeditionary (MUX) effort.

The U.S. Marine Corps is joining the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program to accelerate commercial development eVTOL vehicles, with a view to using them for logistics.

Startup vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft developer Transcend Air is poised to start flight tests of a revised scaled version of its tiltwing Vy 400 intercity transport vehicle

Irelandia Aviation, the company behind five different low-cost carriers around the world, has invested in Skyports, a UK developer of infrastructure

“The drone industry accomplishes great missions, yet the infrastructure to dock, charge, host and control multiple drones is almost nonexistent,” says the CEO of accelerator EVA.

The design is for a considerable aircraft with a span of 16 m. But funding is needed.

Norway electrifies; Boom slips; repairing satellites; GoFly unfinished; Joby flies for NASA; fluidic propulsion.

SpaceX’s Elon Musk may have stunned the Air Force Association with his statement that the time for manned fighter aircraft has passed. Aviation Week editors explain why that was shocking – and why it wasn’t.

Elon Musk startled an Air Force audience by declaring fighters dead, but his opinion isn’t far off current acquisition strategy.

More than 50,000 respondents have commented on the FAA’s notice of proposed rulemaking.

The GoFly team is considering its next step after high winds on Feb. 27-29 prevented the final fly-off between personal flying devices competing for a $1 million grand prize.

German startup Fraundorfer Aeronautics is flight testing a technology demonstrator for its Tensor 600X compound gyrocopter, a two-seat personal air

Startup Joby Aviation will be the only electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing developer to provide a vehicle for flight testing in NASA’s urban air mobility Grand Challenge development testing event this year.

The public comment period for the FAA’s Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems draft regulation closed just before midnight on March 2, with 51,006 comments counted.

Bristow is conducting search-and-rescue trials in the UK with an unmanned helicopter as it considers how to use the technology for future search-and-rescue contracts.

The service has launched the Agility Prime program with the goal of accelerating the FAA certification of commercial eVTOL cargo and passenger vehicles.

More than 45,000 respondents have commented on the FAA’s draft regulation for remote identification of drones as of the March 2 deadline.

Hybrid-electric 50-seater; medical delivery eVTOL; South Korea targets UAM; Electric commuter; Climate research.

“The really dangerous future” is autonomous drone warfare, SpaceX Founder Elon Musk said Feb. 28 during the annual Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando.

The first prototype of Lilium’s electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft has been damaged in a fire, the latest in a spate of incidents impacting electric aircraft technology developers.