Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The first untethered hover flight of a full-scale engineering prototype of the LE200 eVTOL has been completed by Chinese startup Range Aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The FAA has accepted XTI Aerospace's application for type certification of the TriFan 600 VTOL business aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Australia has awarded vertiport startup Skyportz a provisional patent for a vertipad design that ameliorates a potential issue with eVTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
EHang is the first eVTOL-maker to be profitable. Can it break out of China?
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
The wing was made using new production techniques and was subjected to progressive loads that exceeded the expected load limit by more than 200%, Embraer says.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Letters of intent to acquire the Ultra Short come from more than 50 companies and Electra.aero values those preorders at nearly $9 billion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
Little attention has been paid to the use of small, unmanned aircraft, or drones, presumably because they will not carry passengers.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick, Ben Goldstein, Garrett Reim
The arduous timeline to certify a passenger-carrying eVTOL aircraft has forced some contenders out of the race.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Rune Aero is using an interactive virtual wind tunnel powered by physics-based machine learning algorithms to optimize an autonomous cargo aircraft design.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Pyka has begun commercial operations in three countries using its fixed-wing, all-electric aerial application drone.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Eve Air Mobility and South Korean operator UI Helicopter have signed a memorandum of understanding to help develop an AAM ecosystem in South Korea.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Beyond Aero has unveiled major changes in the design of its One business jet, a 6- to 8-seat, 800 nm-range aircraft relying on hydrogen-electric propulsion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
The Virgin-Joby pairing marks a major loss for Bristol-based Vertical.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Yitong UAV System's TP1000 has joined the growing ranks of airborne uncrewed cargo aircraft in China after making its first flight on March 15.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky flies VTOL UAS, first hybrid airship order, NASA backs university research and fuel-cell performance milestone.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
Silicon Valley’s continuous innovation approach is running into regulatory reality for Joby Aviation and Archer Aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
By selling aircraft to its partners in Abu Dhabi, Archer says it can generate up to $20 million in revenues. It aims to replicate the program in numerous markets eventually.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Metro has ordered up to 20 ALIA eVTOLs for integration into its EMS operation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The Guangzhou-based company delivered 78 EH216-S autonomous multicopters in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The Embraer spinoff announced its revised timeline on an earnings call March 12 for the 2024 fourth quarter.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Autonomous aviation safety, communications and reliability will be advanced under three multi-year research projects award grants by NASA.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The company says it has completed the thrust-borne portion of its flight test campaign.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Vertical Aerospace has appointed Eamonn Brennan, former director general of Eurocontrol and chief executive of the Irish Aviation Authority, as an adviser to its board.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
As timelines stretch and the reality of the FAA’s aircraft type certification process fully sets in, the UAM market leaders are determined to not lose momentum.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Dubbed HeliStorm, the lightweight, high-speed electric engine family will cover the 6,000-7,000 rpm range.
Advanced Air Mobility