Advanced Air Mobility

As Lilium wraps up the preliminary design review for its Lilium Jet, the Germany startup has released a new concept image showing the latest configuration of its electric vertical takeoff and landing regional air taxi.

Ground infrastructure will have to evolve to accommodate eVTOLs.

Hybrid Dash 8 batteries; Nuclear-powered spacecraft; Inside Lilium’s eVTOL; Infrared-welded thermoplastics; Forming antennas in space.

Newly publicly traded Eve Holdings, the Embraer spinoff, boosted the Advanced Air Mobility Composite Index dramatically in its second week of trading.

MagniX of Everett, Washington, has named Nuno Taborda as CEO following the abrupt departure of Roei Ganzarski in January.

With AAM operations set to begin in 2024-25, the emerging industry is moving quickly to address infrastructure requirements.

As the AAM OEMs adjust to changes the FAA has made to how it will certify the aircraft, remaining AAM building blocks are taking shape.

Slovenian aircraft manufacturer Pipistrel, now under Textron ownership, plans to grow its workforce and accelerate development of new products, including the Nuuva hybrid-electric uncrewed cargo aircraft.

German eVTOL manufacturer Lilium has signed a formal partnership with its avionics provider Honeywell and Japanese automotive specialist DENSO to co-develop and manufacture electric motors for the Lilium Jet.

UK vertiport developer and drone operator Skyports plans to explore establishing a ship-to-shore delivery infrastructure in Singapore.

Disruptive aviation will require changes to how people learn their jobs, according to Christopher Courtney, director of advanced air mobility at CAE.

Joby Aviation has made its third business acquisition as it works toward certification of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft and launch of commercial air-taxi services in 2024.

French startup VoltAero plans to offer fractional ownership of its planned Cassio family of hybrid-electric aircraft in Europe, beginning with its five-seat Cassio 330.

The European Patent Office has published 37 applications by Lilium which provide new insight into the design of the German startup’s Lilium Jet electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

Surf Air Mobility is to go public through a merger with a blank-check company that values the Los Angeles-based regional scheduled and on-demand charter carrier at $1.42 billion.

Subscale flight test; Nordic electric seaplane; shaped by flow control; and net-zero across the Atlantic.

How a yearly series of experiments in the Utah desert is preparing the Army to incorporate drone swarms into future operations.

May 10 through May 16 proved that going public has its ups and downs, whether a company is a startup or one that’s been around for 100 years.

Industry is left with more questions than answers after the FAA suddenly changed direction on certifying electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

Since joining the family business in the 2000s after a spell working in insurance, Robert Walters has had an unbetterable view as Biggin Hill has undergone a radical transformation.

Archer Aviation and Joby Aviation have both played down the potential effect of the FAA’s change in direction on eVTOL certification as they reported their first-quarter 2022 financial results.

A lawsuit filed against Beta Technologies by supplier Blue Force Technologies is providing insight into an emerging industry where advanced-air-mobility startups are relying on niche suppliers to get started.

Qualcomm has identified urban air mobility aircraft as a target market for its latest Robotics RB6 Platform, which combines cameras, computer vision, artificial intelligence and 5G mobile communications into a single integrated processing system.

U.S. startup KinectAir has launched an on-demand regional air mobility service that uses a smartphone app enabling passengers to order a flight from a local airfield with lower cost and greater flexibility than a traditional private aviation charter.

Advanced air mobility aircraft manufacturers are calling for clearer guidance from the FAA over certification requirements after the regulator signaled a change in rules governing approval for winged electric vertical-take-off-and-landing vehicles.