Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The production certificate was the first awarded to a developer of an uncrewed passenger-carrying aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The Prosperity air taxi will be used for urban air traffic demonstration flights conducted in preparation for the Osaka World Expo in 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The flight-test campaign marked beginning of an effort to integrate various components of automation into an aircraft to build up to true end-to-end autonomy.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
China’s AVIC is preparing to fly the HH-100, an uncrewed cargo aircraft developed by the civil aircraft division of Xi’an Aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The project involves Thales, TXT and the Universite Laval.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
As of the end of 2023, 690 registered GA companies operated 2,900 aircraft and averaged 114,000 flight hours per month, China reported on March 29.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Lilium has received the first set of standby flight instruments from Garmin for integration into its Lilium Jet prototypes and flight simulator.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
H55 is developing battery packs for Pratt & Whitney Canada’s hybrid-electric flight demonstrator.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Rolls-Royce has begun bench tests of its first 320-kW electric motor demonstrator for potential regional aircraft applications.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
The two front-runners in the nascent U.S. air taxi market have staked out sharply different paths in their manufacturing strategies.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The AAM Stock Composite rose 1.5% during the week ending March 29, compared to an 0.25% increase in the S&P 500.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A key element of a novel electric propulsion demonstrator has been completed and is set to begin bench testing under a UK government-supported research program.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Surf Air Mobility said it now expects to receive FAA certification for its electrified powertrains in 2027.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The Mitre Corp. has developed a tool that can estimate the level of risk to AAM vehicles posed by hazardous operating conditions created by microscale weather.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The project is developing a digital twin of Aurora’s Skiron-X expeditionary uncrewed aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Drone delivery provider DroneUp has unveiled its Ecosystem, an integrated ground, air and software infrastructure.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
High-speed testbeds make progress; validating a digital twin; non-CO2 emissions road map; power-beamed UAV; SAF via bacteria.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
Several years following the initial explosion of the eVTOL sector, most industry players have converged around one or two primary vehicle concepts.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Hybrid-electric aircraft developer VoltAero is preparing to test a more powerful piston engine from Kawasaki.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Archer Aviation has unveiled the completion of a series of initial battery drop tests, demonstrating the safety and resiliency of its proprietary battery packs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Kriya Shortt, Textron eAviation’s CEO, sat down with the AAM Report to discuss the company’s various programs and overarching vision for sustainable aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Dutch startup Electron Aerospace has unveiled an updated design for its Electron 5, a four-passenger, battery-electric aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
XTI Aerospace hopes its new life as a publicly traded company will unlock the resources required to develop the TriFan 600 VTOL business aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The eVTOL industry seems to be in a Boeing 367-like moment.
Advanced Air Mobility

An estimation of the number of test flights needed to type certify electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.
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