Advanced Air Mobility

When some think of vertiports capable of handling advanced air mobility services, they may imagine large complexes. The reality, however, may be more modest.

Rhode Island-based electric seaglider startup Regent has announced the completion of a $60 million Series A funding round.

Austrian startup CycloTech has unveiled a design concept for an “air car.”

Supernal is working to develop electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.

Personal air mobility startup Jetson has announced the successful completion of a $15 million seed round.

The UK is moving toward an outcomes-based approach in regulating remotely piloted aircraft systems and the advanced air mobility sector.

Deutsche Aircraft has completed wind tunnel testing of the 328Alpha hydrogen-electric powertrain flight demonstrator.

Joby Aviation has begun flying its S4 tiltprop electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft with a pilot on board.

Australia’s V-Star Powered Lift Aviation and radiopharmaceutical supplier Cyclotek have signed an agreement to trial the use of long-range uncrewed aircraft to deliver time-sensitive medical tracers to regional imaging centers.

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A German startup is aiming to prove that low-cost regional airlines can be disruptors.

Deutsche Aircraft has completed powered-model wind tunnel testing of its D328 Alpha hydrogen-electric propulsion demonstrator.

Opening of the facility is a public sign of the progress being made by electric-aircraft startup Beta Technologies

Flying hydrogen laboratory; trainer flies on SAF; Joby eVTOL for Korea; and airport cargo robot.

The rules, regulations and parameters within which vertiports will operate are all works in progress.

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

Canadian air taxi startup Horizon Air recently announced a design change from five to seven seats for its hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

German aerospace center DLR has taken delivery of a Dornier 328-100 modified by Deutsche Aircraft to be a flying testbed for sustainable aviation technologies.

An autonomous electric cargo transport ground vehicle is to be tested at the UK’s East Midlands Airport.

With cross-border flights by electric aircraft a rarity, Beta says the Alia flight was the first by a fully electric aircraft into Montreal.

Team wants data on S4 dynamics in simulated lunar space.

Jaunt Air Mobility has confirmed plans to sell its quarter-scale air taxi technology demonstrator as a standalone product.

A consortium of companies led by Swedish drone and vertiport startup Kookiejar plans to demo drone delivery of goods from Monaco to a superyacht.

Universal Hydrogen's modified Dash 8 incorporates the hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system in place of the Pratt & Whitney PW123 turboprop on its right wing.

VoltAero's Cassio 330 features a 330 kW electric-parallel hybrid propulsion system built around a Kawasaki piston engine, with an electric motor from Safran.