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The CEO of Lift Aircraft says interest in its Hexa 2 personal eVTOL is taking off in the Middle East after a series of recent demonstration flights in Abu Dhabi.

Joby Aviation becomes the third electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer to fly a prototype at the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai in Japan.

Japan’s Marubeni is to resume demonstration flights with Lift Aircraft’s electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) Hexa at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka.

U.S. startup LIFT Aircraft's single-seat Hexa multicopter lost an electric motor during a public demonstration flight at the Osaka World Expo in April.

Certifying an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi is prohibitively expensive. With markets tight, some startups are changing course.

Lift Aircraft has won a U.S. Army contract to develop and demo a modular medical payload that enables its Hexa eVTOL to deliver blood and evacuate a casualty.

Lift Aircraft has introduced the Hexa 2, the first major upgrade of its Hexa personal eVTOL since production of the single-person multicopter began in 2021.

Lift Aircraft has launched the first electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle pay-per-flight experience.

The South African air transport market resets.

The Hexa is a single-seat, unwinged multicopter with a range of 15 mi. (24 km) and maximum cruise speed of 55 kt.

Listen in as editors discuss South Africa's changed aviation landscape.

The latest addition to South Africa’s skies has revealed its inaugural routes.