Advanced Air Mobility

Automotive and motorcycle maker Suzuki will help SkyDrive manufacture its eVTOL, which will now carry three people.

Chinese startup AutoFlight is debuting its fourth full-scale proof-of-concept electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi at the Paris Air Show.

With eyes on the market inside and outside the country, Chinese eVTOL-makers are claiming low costs that could spell a challenge for their Western competitors.

Toulouse-based startup Beyond Aerospace plans to begin by flying a subscale fuel-cell powertrain in a two-seat ultralight aircraft.

Archer is displaying its Midnight electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft at the Paris Air Show.

John Slattery’s involvement could help Heart gain further market credibility and secure more orders as well as financing as it continues toward certification.

Large airship aloft, ducted-fan high lift, tiltwing eVTOL UAV and flying on fuel cells.

U.S. startup Wright Electric has produced 1 megawatt of shaft power in tests of an electric motor-generator under development to power commercial aircraft.

German hydrogen-electric propulsion pioneer H2Fly has unveiled its next generation of fuel cell.

Embraer’s Eve Air Mobility eVTOL aircraft will be the launch customer for the electric motors that emerge from the Nidec Aerospace JV.

Collins Aerospace has met a key milestone on the path toward development of the Hybrid-Electric Propulsion flight demonstrator.

Brazil’s aviation regulator ANAC has signed letters of intent with its European and UK counterparts to cooperate on certification of eVTOL aircraft.

ATM organization Eurocontrol has kicked off a 3-year project to pave the way for safe and efficient integration of vertiports into existing European airspace.

Japan’s IHI has unveiled tech breakthroughs that could advance development of electric and fuel cell propulsion systems for aircraft in the 2030s.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Aviation Week Network’s new forecast is more conservative than rosier industry projections.

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Every aspect of Elfly Group’s project is ambitious, but CEO and founder Eric Lithun argues it is achievable.

German aerial remote sensing company AeroDCS has completed the first hover flight of the Air Barrow Fuel Cell hydrogen-fueled unmanned aircraft.

Flight of the NASA X-57 Maxwell electric aircraft is in doubt as the program concludes at the end of September and is dealing with another technical problem.

Swiss startup Dufour Aerospace has finalized the design and specifications for its Aero2 hybrid-electric tiltwing VTOL UAS.

Some major airlines are ramping up plans to adopt air taxi service.

L3Harris is breaking barriers by leveraging its industry-leading technologies and services and adapting them to the AAM and eVTOL ecosystem.

Hexcel and its advanced lightweight composites are helping Archer become among the first to deliver a safe, reliable eVTOL platform to market.

As the 2024 Summer Olympics approach, advanced air mobility providers ramp up plans to offer shuttle services. But obstacles remain.