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 […]

UTM

Joby, NASA simulation demonstrates ‘up to 120 air taxi operations per hour’ in busy airspace

Joby Aviation, a company developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for commercial passenger service, reports successful completion of a series of air traffic simulations with NASA’s Ames Research Center that evaluated how air […]