Air taxis and personal transports

Lilium launches into UK with deal for up to 20 “Pioneer Editions” with eVolare private jet operator

Lilium N.V. has today announced a contract with eVolare, a subsidiary of Volare Aviation, one of the United Kingdom’s largest helicopter and private jet operators for a firm commitment for ten Lilium Pioneer Edition Jets, […]

Air taxis and personal transports

H2FLY to head European Commission hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft-system research project

H2FLY, the Stuttgart (Germany)-based company specializing in the development of hydrogen fuel cell systems for aircraft, has been appointed project lead of the HEAVEN initiative. The aim of Project HEAVEN is to design, develop and […]

Air taxis and personal transports

UMILES NEXT Concept Integrity eVTOL: a key partner in UAM/AAM airspace integration trials

The UMILES Next air taxi, Concept Integrity, equipped with FlyFree technology developed by the TECNALIA research centre, was presented yesterday in Brussels during the Drone Days organised by the European Commission as part of the […]

Government investment

UK government gives new funds to regulators to speed hydrogen-power, UTM and drone deployment

UK Science Minister George Freeman has today awarded up to UKP12 million (SD 14 million) to UK regulators and local authorities to pioneer innovative low carbon technologies – including drone, UTM and hydrogen-powered aviation research. […]

Vertiports

Skyports and Corporación América Airports link to develop vertiports in Latin America

Skyports Infrastructure and Corporación América Airports S.A (CAAP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to plan the development and deployment of vertiport infrastructure for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) operations. According to a […]

UTM

Volocopter “completes 2022 CORUS-XUAM deconfliction urban air mobility trial flights”

Volocopter reports it has completed a two-week test flight campaign for its multirotor heavy-lift cargo carrier, the VoloDrone. The campaign was run at the DLR National Experimental Test Centre for Unmanned Aircraft, Magdeburg-Cochstedt Airport, Germany. […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Airbus details hydrogen fuel-cell research – plans ZEROe flight demonstrations

Airbus and its partners have given more details about their hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion research. Fuel-cells generate electricity very efficiently through an electrochemical reaction, rather than via combustion. They also differ from batteries since they require […]