Advanced Air Mobility

Europe has launched a research project to develop a liquid hydrogen tank that is integrated into the aircraft’s fuselage to maximize volume and minimize weight.

Hybrid-electric testing; Australian eVTOL; Delivery drone certified; AAM micro-weather; Faster LEO cleanup.

Eve Holding helped push the AAM Stock Composite up by 2% for the five market trading days ending Sept. 12 when compared to the previous five-day period.

De Havilland Canada is providing engineering support to modify a Dash 8-100, replacing one of its two P&WC PW120-class turboprops with a 2-megawatt parallel hybrid-electric powertrain.

VEHICLE Montreal-based Limosa is preparing to fly a 10% scale model of its LimoConnect, a seven-seat electric vertical-takoff-and-landing aircraft

Finland has opened the LIFT Future Aerospace Center, which aims to strengthen aviation research, development and innovation in the country through public and private cooperation.

“Much of the focus in advanced air mobility today has been on the vehicle,” says David Stepanek, the Bristow Group’s chief transformation officer. “There hasn’t been a lot of focus, or any focus at all, on what happens after production."

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

United Airlines has become the latest advanced-air-mobility customer to place bets on electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxis.

Two demonstrators and a startup fuel growing activity in advanced air mobility in China.

While China may dominate the Asian market in terms of orders, it certainly is not alone in the Asia-Pacific region in joining the advanced-air-mobility (AAM) industry.

Montreal-based startup VPorts plans to build a network of vertiports in Quebec, focused initially on regional cargo and medical transportation using electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

The composite’s partial recovery came as the S&P500 continued to drift downward, this week by 3.7%.

The move signals the growing importance of electric power in new aircraft designs.

Shanghai-based Vertax has flown a half-scale model of its design and is targeting certification in 2026.

The aircraft is expected to begin remotely piloted test flights before the end of the year.

Lighter turbines; Seaglider advances; Recoverable satellites; Australian vertiport; and Korea’s UAM contestants.

Victoria Madden has left her role as British Airways head of global PR and social media to join Vertical Aerospace, the UK-based electric airplane manufacturer, in the new position of head of communications.

While China may dominate the Asian market in terms of orders, it certainly is not alone in terms of joining the advanced air mobility industry.

Ultralight aircraft are usually the simplest of flying machines, often just tube and fabric—no certification, no pilot’s license, no commercial use.

Diamond Aircraft is facing challenges to reaching agreement with regulators on requirements for certification of its eDA40 electric trainer. Battery safety is a key concern for certification, which is planned for 2023.

Details have emerged of two additional consortia bidding to participate in South Korea’s K-UAM Grand Challenge urban air mobility demonstration project.

Australian startup Skyportz has unveiled plans for the first in a network of vertiports to support advanced air mobility.

Regent has taken a step closer toward certification of its Viceroy electric seaglider with receipt of approval in principle (AiP) for the wing-in-ground-effect regional transport from inspection agency Bureau Veritas.

South Korean startup MintAir plans to build an advanced air mobility service using electric rotorcraft and has agreed to order up to 40 aircraft from Jaunt Air Mobility, in addition to a previous commitment for 100 aircraft from Skyworks Aeronautics.