Virtual reality simulator developer Loft Dynamics, formerly VRM Switzerland, has raised $20 million in venture financing to expand into international markets.
China’s EHang will not meet its year-end target for certification of its autonomous, two-passenger EH216-S electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Jekta Swiss Aviation plans to revive the decades-old concept of the amphibious flying boat with a 19-seat regional aircraft aimed at the global market.
Xwing has signed a contract with the FAA to research how to coordinate large commercial UAVs and general aviation aircraft in complex air traffic situations.
The partners will share best practices for design concepts and evaluate which of 53 Latin American airport sites may be most ripe for vertiport deployment.
Canadian vertiport startup VPorts and the U.S.-based Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance have announced an agreement to establish a corridor fo
Embraer spinoff Eve Holdings has added a potential customer for its urban air traffic management (UATM) solution—Vertiport developer Bluenest, which will use th
A second phase of Israel’s National Drone Initiative is to include demonstrations that could pave the way for passenger-carrying electric vertical takeoff...
SkyDrive of Japan has signed a memorandum of understanding with investor Pacific Group for up to 100 electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for potentia
Singapore-headquartered H3 Dynamics is flight testing its distributed hydrogen-electric propulsion nacelle technology on a small uncrewed aircraft in Bretigny,
The weight of lithium-ion batteries is increased, and their energy density degraded, by the need to build in protection to prevent the short-circuit of a cell damaged in a crash causing an uncontained fire.
The goal of the project is to demonstrate that a scale model that mimics the dynamics of a full-size aircraft can be used as a viable and competitive means of i
