electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL)

By Ben Goldstein
John Langford, Electra’s founder and CEO, recently sat down with the AAM Report to discuss the rollout of the company’s technology demonstrator.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The piloted, two-seat technology demonstrator for Electra.aero's hybrid-electric ultra-short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft is set to fly this year for testing.
Emerging Technologies

By Brian Everstine
Plan to feature new long-range munitions and vertical-takeoff-and-landing systems as part of a long-term approach that looks to cut traditional squadrons.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Ben Goldstein
Developing a platform for the crop-spraying market is not easy, but a pair of startups are hoping that the market will serve as an early application for eVTOLs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Volocopter is a German startup that is on track to become the first Western company with a certified passenger-carrying eVTOL vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Ryse Aerotech is an Ohio-headquartered company developing an electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle for the personal use market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Boeing has taken full control of self-flying air taxi developer Wisk.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
With Osprey orders ending and the Chinook awaiting a major U.S. Army decision, Boeing is devising a new future for its Philadelphia campus.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Low-speed, multiblade rim-driven rotor aims to overcome limitations of conventional rotors.
Emerging Technologies

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

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

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

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