It makes perfect sense that a leading provider of manned aircraft should enter the arena of passenger VTOLs, flying cars, and urban air mobility. Now, Embraer urban air mobility spin-off Eve UAM, LLC (“Eve”) has spun off and is joining the NYSE – and promises a vehicle in 2026. The …
Read More »North Carolina’s AeroX Granted $5 Million for AAM
Volansi VOLY Flies in North Carolina AeroX Granted $5 Million for Advanced Air Mobility Development by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby AeroX, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting the safe and efficient commercialization of UAS technologies in Forsyth County, has been awarded a $5 million dollar grant from the …
Read More »Archer eVTOL Gets FAA Special Airworthiness Certificate: Che…
Archer eVTOL Granted New FAA Status by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Today, Archer Aviation Inc. announced that the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has granted it a Special Airworthiness Certificate authorizing the company to begin flight testing its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) Maker aircraft. With this final …
Read More »Aerial Sightseeing in a Passenger Drone [VIDEO]
EHang 216 AAV Completes Debut Flight Demo for Aerial Sightseeing in Indonesia by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby EHang 216, the world’s leading autonomous aerial vehicle (“AAV”), has completed its debut flight demonstration for aerial sightseeing in Bali, Indonesia. The demonstration flight was carried out by EHang in cooperation …
Read More »Personal eVTOL Vehicles AIR CEO
AIR CEO envisions future featuring people flying personal eVTOL vehicles By Jim Magill From George Jetson to Prof. Brown in the Back to the Future movies, the dream of owning one’s own flying car has captured the public imagination. However, in recent years, planners envisioning urban air mobility solutions have …
Read More »Hyundai Launches New Company for Urban Air Mobility
Supernal Concept vehicle Hyundai Launches New Company for Urban Air Mobility: Supernal by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Today, Hyundai Motor Group announced a new company called Supernal, LLC to advance its mobility solutions. As the evolution of its Urban Air Mobility Division, Supernal will be the key player …
Read More »Skyportz Announces Air Taxi Infrastructure Australia
Skyportz Announces First Australian Air Taxi Hub to Service Brisbane Olympics by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Today at the Air Taxi World Congress in London, Skyportz announced that their first Australian infrastructure for air taxis will be built at the Australian Advanced Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Moreton …
Read More »Can Batteries Power Urban Air Mobility Flights?
Courtesy of EHang Researchers seek to improve battery power to enable urban air mobility flights. by Jim Magill The key to achieving a future of urban air mobility (UAM) lies in the development of a power source, compact enough to not take up too much room or add too much …
Read More »TindAIR: Bringing Urban Air Mobility to Europe
Launched today, TindAIR is a new consortium funded by the European Union ́s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program tasked with working on wide scale demonstrations of urban air mobility applications. TindAIR, which stands for Tactical INstrumental Deconfliction And in flight Resolution, falls under SESAR’s U-Space efforts, developing unmanned traffic management systems …
Read More »Volocopter Funding: €200 Million in Series D
The appetite for investment in the air taxi or urban air mobility sector continues to grow, as new Volocopter funding indicates. Volocopter, one of the first working air taxis – and the only company to receive Design Organization Approval (DOA) by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) – has …
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