Urban Air Mobility

Skyportz Partners with Electro.Aero for “Vertiport in a Box” Solution It’s a chicken and egg scenario – which comes first, the vertiport or the passenger eVTOL business?  Who’s going to invest in the vertiport infrastructure required to get the business off the ground?  The vertiport version of a pre-fab tiny …

Archer Aviation, United Airlines Establishing Air Taxi Route in Chicago by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Today, Archer Aviation and United Airlines announced plans to launch Chicago’s first air taxi route. The route will be situated between O’Hare International Airport (ORD) and Vertiport Chicago, the largest vertical aircraft take …

At Amsterdam Drone Week today, a panel of experts in urban air mobility discussed the opportunity in the Asia Pacific – and the drivers behind bringing UAM to the region. Diana Cooper is the Global Head of Policy at Supernal, a Hyundai company developing eVTOL for the commuter market.  Cooper …

DRONELIFE and DroneTalks do a quick recap, from the floor of Amsterdam Drone Week. DRONELIFE  met up with Eszter Kovács, the CEO & co-founder of DroneTalks Group and Aerial Cities at Amsterdam Drone Week!  DRONELIFE Editor Miriam McNabb speaks with host Eszter Kovács about the themes and topics they saw covered: urban air …

Volocopter showcases its VoloCity at the CoMotionLA event Volocopter Partners with SITA on Urban Air Mobility Infrastructure by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M, Crosby Urban air mobility (UAM) leader Volocopter has entered a partnership with air transport industry IT provider SITA. The agreement positions SITA as Volocopter’s preferred digital and …

Developing standards for advanced air mobility certification and operations is one of the key steps to commercialization of urban air mobility solutions and passenger eVTOLs. Continue reading below, or listen:  This week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that the US and Korea will work together on advanced air mobility. …

AIR ONE eVTOL Completes First Full Transition to Cruise Flight by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby EVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft developer AIR announced the completion of its AIR ONE vehicle’s first full forward flight, in which the aircraft executed a seamless transition from hover to cruise. …

Two years ago, in November of 2020, the Mayor of Seoul took a ride in an EHang 216.  The autonomous test flight was launched over the densely populated city of Seoul, under a “Special Certificate of Airworthiness,” the first ever granted in Korea to a passenger-grade AAV. passenger flight experience …

Passenger eVTOL in NYC by 2023?  LIFT Aircraft Enters Agreement with Charm Aviation for HEXA Aircraft Tours in NYC by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer LIFT Aircraft has announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with helicopter tour …

First Vertiport in Italy Deployed at Fiumicino Airport by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby This morning, Aeroporti di Roma (ADR), Volocopter, UrbanV, and Atlantia completed Italy’s first crewed eVTOL public test flight during the presentation of the country’s first advanced air mobility (AAM) testing vertiport. Continue reading below, or …