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 […]

Emerging regulations

FAA proposes rule change to add powered lift aircraft operators to commercial operating rules

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a proposal to amend the regulatory definitions of certain air carrier and commercial operations to add powered-lift to these definitions “to ensure the appropriate sets of rules […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

Israel to trial passenger carrying eVTOLs and cargo drones in controlled urban airspace

The Israel Innovation Authority (IAA) has announced the start of a 60 million INS (USD17.5 million) second phase of the Israel’s National Drone Initiative, which will examine the use of large cargo and passenger-carrying heavy […]

Cargo and logistics

European Commission to support drone cargo airline Dronamics fleet, droneport network expansion

Drone cargo airline Dronamics has announced it has been awarded a EUR2.5 million grant by the European Commission under the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme. “The EIC has also expressed a material commitment to […]