A potential order for five electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft by the U.S. Air Force in fiscal 2023 may not register on lists of the largest customers for the flying taxi industry, but could still have a major impact on the experimental technology.
The U.S. domestic airline market carried 926 million passengers, of which roughly 165 million—almost 20%—took flights shorter than 450 mi. (the “regional market”) in 2019.
As manufacturers progress toward type certification of their electric air taxis, preparations for production are gathering pace. And the industry leaders are taking different approaches.
As Dana Jensen, senior industrial policy analyst, keeps watch over the development of advanced air mobility vehicles and their supply chains through the lens of the U.S. Air Force Agility Prime initiative, he has a recurring thought.
Advanced air mobility’s OEMs held their positions for the April listing of the AAM Reality Index, developed by SMG Consulting in partnership with Aviation Week.
As their nearly six-month mission to the International Space Station draws to a close, four NASA SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts praised their experience with Axiom-1, the first U.S. all-private astronaut mission to the ISS, and predicted there will be more missions to come.
What a journey across town in an autonomous air taxi could look like, flying through airspace shared with drones and piloted aircraft, is revealed in a new concept of operations for urban air mobility produced by Wisk Aero and vertiports developer Skyports.
In the latest round of the legal battle between Wisk and Archer, Archer has filed a lawsuit accusing Boeing of launching a media smear campaign intended to harm the rival eVTOL startup.
Like with safety in a previous generation, commercial aviation is going through another existential moment. This time it is about environmental concerns, with sustainability as the overarching goal. What lies ahead are opportunities to pick low-hanging fruit but also the need to make controversial culture changes. How does commercial aviation get here?
Zanite Acquisition has beefed up the committed funding that is backing its planned going-public merger with Eve, Embraer’s urban air mobility spinoff, as it heads into a May 6 shareholder vote on the deal.
In August 2019 I wrote in Aviation Week & Space Technology about how the electronic vertical takeoff and landing sector was a hot topic in the industry.
Honeywell has started testing reaction time differences between expert pilots and novices on its prototype simplified vehicle operation cockpit system for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
