Ferrovial Airports’ senior vice president of corporate development shares the company’s vertiport plans and predicts how MRO will differ for advanced air mobility.
South African aerostructures manufacturer Aerosud aviation has signed a memorandum of understanding with UK startup Samad Aerospace for the development and manufacture of the Starling Cargo unmanned aircraft.
With the South Korean government making a proactive effort to commercialize urban air mobility by 2025, two consortiums have announced plans to develop and test the required ecosystem.
China will likely be the first geographic region to embrace urban air mobility and will dominate the market through 2035 when the U.S. is projected to take over market leadership.
Diehl Aerospace and Thales are to work with Airbus to develop the flight control system for Airbus’ electric vertical takeoff and landing advanced air mobility platform.
The ability to deliver whole blood by unmanned aircraft over long distances to medics treating traumatic injuries in the field has been demonstrated by L3Harris and Near Earth Autonomy.
Xtend, an Israeli-linked UAV operator system startup that aims to use artificial intelligence to help extend the use and range of unmanned vehicles, has raised $20 million in Series A funding, the company announced Nov. 16.
As urban air mobility leaders target congested cities such as Los Angeles as launch markets for air taxi services, efforts to secure convenient vertiport locations are accelerating.
Unmanned cargo-aircraft startup Elroy Air has partnered with humanitarian transport operator AYR Logistics to develop an autonomous aerial-delivery service.
Archer, Joby and Lilium together spent almost $132 million in the third quarter on development of their electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxis.
China will likely be the first geographic region to embrace urban air mobility and will dominate the market through 2035, when the U.S. is projected to take over market leadership.
Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia, is going all-in to develop a complete system to support electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air service, through new partnerships.
For Honda, development of a mobility ecosystem centered on an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi, will be a key step toward transforming the automaker from a product manufacturer into a system developer and service provider.
Electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air-taxi developer Overair has begun full-scale ground tests of the 20-ft.-dia. rotor system that will power a flying demonstrator of the company’s Butterfly quad-tiltrotor starting late in 2022 or early in 2023.
High-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft developer Transcend Air is conducting ground tests of its Vy 400 tiltwing concept at a drag-racing venue near its Boston headquarters while continuing to raise funds to support full-scale development.
The tests, which involved a piloted flight by Volocopter’s prototype air taxi, demonstrated the service operating model and air traffic management integration.
Startup Archer Aviation has transported its Maker technology demonstrator to a flight test center in California in preparation for a first hover flight of the electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle before year’s end.
