Existing composite materials and manufacturing processes will not scale to the production volumes envisioned for advanced air mobility and startups should consider collaborating to qualify new technologies, urges a company formed to help companies scale up manufacturing.
Norwegian regional airline Wideroe is continuing its journey toward introducing zero-emissions aircraft, signing an agreement with Embraer’s Eve subsidiary to study electric vertical takeoff and landing operations in Scandinavia.
South Korean automaker Hyundai has renamed its urban air mobility division Supernal and plans to begin certification of its electric air taxi in the U.S. in 2024, aiming to launch commercial flights in 2028.
The National Business Aviation Association hailed the final passage by the U.S. House of Representatives of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that contains measures to support efforts to attract and retain aviation workers, fund improvements for general aviation airports and spur next-generation programs.
Gur Kimchi, co-founder of Amazon’s drone delivery service Amazon Prime Air, has joined the board of directors at Near Earth Autonomy, which is working to develop safe and efficient autonomous flight capabilities.
U.S. House members on Nov. 4 passed a bipartisan bill in support of advanced air mobility that would establish an AAM interagency working group to review policies and make recommendations to further the technologies and infrastructure for the new transportation capability.
McKinsey & Co.’s Robin Riedel says approximately $12 billion in funding has flowed into advanced air mobility over the past decades, “a meaningful number.”
Washington State University is helping startup Zeva Aero with development of a single-person electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle under a grant from the state’s Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation.
Swiss startup Dufour Aerospace has launched a tiltwing unmanned cargo aircraft as a step toward development of its planned Aero3 passenger-carrying electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Airborne International Response Team have joined forces to study the use of small unmanned aircraft systems by public safety and emergency response organizations.
Startup SkyDrive has become the first Japanese company to formally initiate the type certification process for an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.
West Coast-based Archer Aviation plans to head East to set up a network in Miami, powered by Archer’s electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, and in parallel to its efforts to establish a network in Los Angeles.
U.S. naval aviation will need to field a next-generation stealth fighter, a carrier-based unmanned combat air vehicle, advanced rotorcraft and an assortment of new long-range missiles and directed energy weapons in 2030-2035, a newly-released vision document shows.
Barely a month after completing a $100 million series A fundraising round, Chinese startup Autoflight has flown a prototype of its V1500M three/four-passenger electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
There are oh-so-many technological challenges remaining for the creators of the electric motors, engines and vehicles that will begin to fly under the banner of advanced air mobility.
As firm orders for advanced air mobility aircraft begin to grow—to more than 200 this week as indicated in our October orders count—metropolitan areas around the globe are setting up frameworks to help establish and grow AAM capabilities.
