Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Active flutter control; humanoid robot pilot; delivery drone detect-and-avoid; heavy-lift VTOL demonstrators.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
Extensive survey results from across the AAM industry reveal deep skepticism about the prospects for near-term passenger services and urban air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Governments, environmental advocates and concerned citizens have expressed skepticism to the FAA about its plans to enable large-scale air-taxi ops by 2028
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Beta's surge boosted by production readiness, strong balance sheet and clear path to market for Alia CX-300 electric conventional-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Global helicopter operator Bristow has conducted its first test flight in Beta Technologies’ Alia.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The two companies’ eVTOL lawsuits have been dropped before they went to trial.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Shortt joined Textron Aviation 27 years ago.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Amazon Prime Air has petitioned the FAA for an exemption to enable BVLOS of its MK27-2 delivery drone upgraded with an optical detect-and-avoid system.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The AAM Stock Composite slid by around 12% during the week ended Aug. 18, dragged down by generally weak trading across equity markets.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Rolls-Royce plans to begin ground-testing its lift motor for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft this month.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Liquid-hydrogen fuel systems; TCab eVTOL flies; Tiltwing UAS demo; New twin launched; Fuel-cell compressor.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
China’s EHang says it expects to receive type certification from the Civil Aviation Administration of China “soon.”
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The report from Ark–an existing shareholder in both Archer and Joby Aviation–comes amid ongoing industry debate.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Based in Stockholm, Stilfold is a startup aiming to apply its lightweight, folding sheet metal manufacturing process to various forms of mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Canadian startup Horizon Aircraft plans to list publicly through a merger with a Hawaii-based blank-check company.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Startup Aerovolt has begun rolling out its initial electric aircraft charging stations at airports in the Southern UK.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The designers behind the SoloTrek, a backpack-style personal air vehicle first flown in 2001, have entered the eVTOL market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
GKN Aerospace, Marshall, and Parker Aerospace have signed an MOU to partner on development of a liquid hydrogen fuel system for future zero-emission aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The vehicle flown by Chinese startup TCab Tech appears to be a full-sized propulsion testbed.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Joe Anselmo, Graham Warwick
The advanced air mobility market is at a critical juncture—and the hard work is just beginning.
Check 6

By Graham Warwick
The first dedicated university research program for electric aircraft batteries in the U.S. has been launched by the University of Michigan.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The deadline for comments on the FAA’s proposed regulations for operations of powered-lift aircraft closed on Aug. 14.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Five of the six publicly traded electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) startups have reported their financial results for the 2023 second quarter (Q2).
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Swiss startup Dufour Aerospace is planning to deliver a prototype Aero2 tiltwing uncrewed aircraft to launch customer Spright.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The AAM Stock Composite slid by around 4% in the week ending Aug. 11.
Advanced Air Mobility