Air taxis and personal transports

CES 2024: Supernal debuts its SA-2 eVTOL concept – commercial service planned for 2028

Supernal LLC – Hyundai Motor Group’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) company – today unveiled S-A2, its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle product concept at CES 2024. The pilot-plus-four-passenger vehicle  builds on the Company’s […]

Emerging regulations

RTCA explores the concept of digital flight in white paper ‘enabling future operational concepts’

US standards agency RTCA has published the white paper: Forum for Digital Flight: Enabling Future Operational Concepts in the National Airspace System for All Airspace Users in a call to action in the near term and […]

Vertiports

“Vertiports will need greater FATO safety areas than currently recommended” – new study

A new research paper from Washington State Department of Transportation Aviation Division, authored by David Ison (“Compatible Land Use for Heliports and Vertiports: A Safety Perspective”) suggests that eVTOL operations will require greater final approach […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

EHang confirms first commercial eVTOL demonstration flights – in Hefei and Guangzhou

EHang Holdings Limited has announced that on December 28 the EH216-S pilotless passenger-carrying aerial vehicles successfully completed debut commercial flight demonstrations in Guangzhou and Hefei respectively, “marking another major step towards normalizing flights with EH216-S […]

Air taxis and personal transports

“First commercial EHang EH216 flight planned for December 28 in Hefei City”

By Philip Butterworth-Hayes China’s “The Paper”, based in Anhui province, reports that on December 28, 2023, Hefei City’s Luogang Park “will host the world’s first commercial flight of EHang’s unmanned manned aircraft.” If the flight […]