While it is clear there are no shortage of obstacles to the successful introduction of drone and passenger-carrying urban air mobility services (UAM) in cities
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
“Europe will need one vertiport/drone landing site per 3,000 urban residents by 2036” -DACUS report
The Demand and Capacity Optimisation for U-space programme (DACUS project) has published its Concept of Operations for “Demand and Capacity Balancing” (DCB) for drones within
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FAA, NASA and UAS industry leaders meet with NUAIR to discuss vertiport technology and self-flying aircraft in cities
Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance (NUAIR) is laying the groundwork to further develop NASA’s advanced air mobility (AAM) efforts. NUAIR manages the USD897,000 task
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airBaltic and telecoms provider LMT link to provide drone services
In an unusual partnership of aviation stakeholders Latvian national airline airBaltic and Latvian mobile telecommunications operator LMT have signed an agreement for collaboration within the
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Brazil’s XMobots wins certification from ANAC for 30km BVLOS drone operations
Brazil’s XMobots reports it has received the first authorization by the Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil – National Agency of Civil Aviation (ANAC) for beyond
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Antwerp Port to launch drone eco system – appoints Unifly as industrial partner
The Port of Antwerp has become one of the first seaports to initiate unmanned air traffic management (UTM) in a busy and complex port environment
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Israel “to trial autonomous urban airspace management system with 20 drones”
On 17 and 18 March, what-is-understood-to-be the world’s largest demonstration of drones flying in a managed airspace is due to take place in Israel. The
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NASA extends deadline for AAM national campaign platform, infrastructure and simulator industry partners
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has extended the proposal date of ARMD Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign by three weeks to April 2,
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“Who should manage urban airspace?” – CIVATAglobal webinar
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes* It seems somehow strange that in most of the world the only responsibility that local authorities have for managing drone and urban
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SESAR launches UAM U-Space large demonstrator projects
The SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) has signed off in the last week a new portfolio of very large-scale demonstrations aimed at making aviation smarter and
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