By Gary Cutts, Challenge Director, Future Flight, UK Research and Innovation The UK has been at the forefront of aviation for more than 100 years. Now, the Future Flight Challenge aims to lead a new […]
At the Greentech Festival in Berlin on 16 September Volocopter announced the world’s first public sale for electrical air taxi flight reservations. According to a company press release: “Effective immediately, Volocopter fans world-wide can reserve their tickets […]
The Bavarian Council of Ministers in Germany is supporting the Urban Air Mobility Initiative in Ingolstadt with an EUR100 million grant. A year ago, Bavaria started a nationwide Hightech Agenda (HTA) programme and is funding […]
The UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) and Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) are seeking innovative and novel solutions to assist military drone operators to improve usability in challenging and complex urban operations. According to […]
The World Economic Forum and the City of Los Angeles released a first-of-its-kind roadmap to support the roll-out of urban air mobility (UAM) in cities, founded on seven key principles of implementation that protect the […]
Cyclotech (https://www.urbanairmobilitynews.com/air-taxis/cyclotech-launches-airfoil-less-air-taxi-propulsion-concept/) plans to perform the first perform full system tests on its airfoil-less air taxi propulsion concept on a static test bench and then take-offs and hover flights on a dynamic test bench this […]
The European Defence Agency (EDA) has completed its work on the ‘Enhanced RPAS Automation’ (ERA) project launched in 2016 by EDA on behalf of Germany, France, Italy, Poland and Sweden. The project aimed at standardising […]
Lilium, the Munich-based company producing all-electric, vertical take-off and landing aircraft for regional air mobility markets, has agreed with both Dusseldorf Airport and Cologne/Bonn Airport to explore how the two airports can become hubs within […]
The EU-China Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA), which went into force in the first week of September will bring European and Chinese safety regulators closer together in areas such as UAS traffic management (UTM) and […]
Companies are beginning to ask questions about the viability of Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP) VTOL aircraft, says Thomas Melcher of https://www.sky-boom.com/ Sabastian Thrun, Larry Page’s right-hand man on his eVTOL projects, made a profound and […]
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