electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL)

By Graham Warwick
NASA’s eVTOL crash test lessons; DLR’s impact test site; Formula One informs batteries; Eve tests UAM prototypes.
Emerging Technologies

By Angus Batey
To make the park and its wider concepts work, further investments in power-generation and -distribution capabilities are also already in hand.
Airports & Networks

Aviation Week Staff
The ePlane Co. has become the first Indian electric aircraft developer to win a design organization OK from the country’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
But outside the echo chamber of AAM startups and industry enthusiasts, public awareness is still in a nascent stage.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Joe Anselmo
Embraer spinoff Eve Air Mobility has completed a prototype of its urban air mobility air traffic management system.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Air Force’s AFWerx High-Speed VTOL Concept Challenger produces mixed results.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Stephen Fitzpatrick, the company’s founder and CEO, recently sat down with the AAM Report to share his thoughts.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Electric aircraft fire; Tiltrotor eVTOL prototypes; Autonomous deck landing; Weather-forecasting drone.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
UK electric air taxi startup Vertical Aerospace has signed an agreement with Kakao Mobility of South Korea for 50 preorders of its VX4 eVTOL vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Dufour Aerospace is to receive a CHF2.5 million ($2.8 million) grant from the Swiss government under an accelerator program run by innovation agency Innosuisse.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Skyports Infrastructure is a company seeking to develop networks of vertiports around the world to accommodate the expected onset of electric air taxis.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Overair is assembling the first uncrewed full-scale demonstrator for its Butterfly tiltrotor electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Doroni Aerospace has launched a Series A offering, aiming to raise $20-30 million to develop its H1 Hummingbird two-seat personal eVTOL vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program has established airspace innovation and battery energy storage teams.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
German aerospace center DLR is planning a new facility for full-scale crash and impact testing of helicopters and electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing craft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The U.S. Department of Transportation has created an interagency working group to help direct strategy and policies related to advanced air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Hyundai company Supernal has partnered with, and invested in, Echodyne.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Seoul’s metropolitan government has selected routes for urban air mobility demonstration flights in 2024-25.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
The standards that pilots of these powered-lift aircraft must meet are also expected to be completed by that time, he said.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup RapidFlight has emerged from stealth mode to launch the M2, a Group 3 uncrewed aircraft system that is 3D-printed.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick, Ben Goldstein
Joby, Lilium and Archer have secured additional funding from existing investors.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Eve Air Mobility has detailed continued progress on its aircraft development program.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The memorandum of understanding signed by the two companies establishes a cooperative framework in a number of areas.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
eVTOL noise rules; Adaptive drone wings; Assuring autonomy; and A220 on 100% SAF.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Swiss company H55 is taking a more pragmatic approach to advanced air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility