The latest trend in advanced air mobility is to test operating concepts for urban air-taxis using helicopters as surrogates for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Blue Islands, a Jersey-based regional airline that connects the Channel Islands with the UK and France, has signed a letter of intent with Universal Hydrogen to
NASA has awarded TruWeather Solutions a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to test a network of ground-based weather sensors in Hampton, Virginia.
Details have emerged of two additional consortia bidding to participate in South Korea’s K-UAM Grand Challenge urban air mobility demonstration project.
Electric propulsion pioneer MagniX is to evaluate high energy-density lithium-sulfur and lithium metal cells from Australian advanced battery startup Li-S Energy.
UK and New Zealand companies have joined forces to develop facilities to enable aerospace companies to test liquid hydrogen fuel systems for flight certification and support the shift to sustainable aviation.
DARPA is launching a program to demonstrate a long-endurance uncrewed aircraft able to operate from warship flight decks and small austere locations in adverse weather.
U.S. startup Jetoptera plans to test a blended wing body model with integrated fluidic propulsion and upper-surface blowing as it bids to win a U.S. Air Force contract to build a prototype high-speed vertical/short takeoff and landing aircraft.
With wildfires raging across Europe, German aerospace center DLR has announced the winners of a university challenge to design an optimized fleet of firefighting aircraft, with first place going to a team from the University of Stuttgart and its hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing design.
Ottawa and Berlin have committed to a Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance to boost investment, production and transatlantic trade in hydrogen, with a goal to export clean hydrogen from Canada to Germany as soon as 2025.
As it prepares for the Atlantic hurricane season, utility Florida Power & Light has introduced a first-of-its-kind large uncrewed aircraft that will be able to survey the electric grid across the state to detect storm damage and speed repairs.
Textron has restarted work on the Nexus electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi but moved the program from Bell to a new unit within its eAviation business segment focused on sustainable flight.
Boeing company Aurora Flight Sciences has partnered with the University of California San Diego to develop tools to automate the design of electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles under a NASA University Leadership Initiative project.
Archer Aviation’s production electric air taxi, called the Midnight, is being designed to fly 45 back-to-back 20-mi. missions a day with a pilot and four passengers and a 10-min. recharge between flights, at prices comparable to ground ride-sharing, the startup has revealed.
The U.S. Vertical Lift Consortium has named 19 finalists in its Urban Air Mobility Challenge, paving the way for a pitch competition in Washington on Sept. 28 and a chance to win $50,000 in funding.
South Korean automaker Hyundai has revealed new details of its broad-based advanced air mobility development strategy after unveiling a full-scale cabin mockup of its electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi concept and signing a propulsion collaboration deal with Rolls-Royce.
Pursuing higher speed and longer range for regional air mobility, Canadian startup Horizon Aircraft is preparing to fly a 50%-scale model of its planned Cavorite X5 hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
Swiss autonomous flight startup Daedalean has established a U.S. presence as its first artificial intelligence-based avionics system moves toward FAA certification.
