Air taxis and personal transports

Undefined Technologies “to fly longer range silent ion-propulsion eVTOL demonstrator this month”

Undefined Technologies, a Florida-based tech startup, is due to fly this month the second long-range mission of its silent eVTOL drone powered by ion propulsion. According to the company the concept vehicle named “Silent Ventus™” […]

Medical/pharmaceutical transport

SESAR SAFIR-Med European research project releases results from first series of flight trials

Closing off the first series of flight trials, as well as testing sessions of technologies developed to ensure the necessary flow of information between use cases actors, the SAFIR-Med research consortium organised a medical aviation […]

Government investment

SESAR 3 JU identifies seven research areas to achieve air-ground integration and autonomy

Europe’s air traffic management airspace modernisation research arm, SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking, has released a multiannual work programme from 2022-2031. Two of the nine flagship technological solutions needed to achieve the modernisation and digitalisation of […]

UTM

Pierce Aerospace and Vigilant Aerospace link to provide remote ID to FlightHorizon service

Pierce Aerospace has announced a partnership with Vigilant Aerospace Systems to integrate Pierce Aerospace’s Flight Portal Remote ID technologies into Vigilant’s FlightHorizon airspace management and flight safety products. Vigilant Aerospace is a specialist in flight […]

Medical/pharmaceutical transport

“Urban drone drug delivery services will require U-space/UTM”- Milan San Raffaele Hospital research

Flying Forward consortium partners, San Raffaele Hospital in Milan and EuroUSC Italia, alongside University Giustino Fortunato in Benevento, have published a research paper ‘Design of a Service for Hospital Internal Transport of Urgent Pharmaceuticals via Drones‘ in the peer-reviewed and […]