Mercury Jets, a New York-based air charter solution company, comments on how private aviation and urban air mobility can partner for a more efficient aviation.
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
“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
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Electric flying backpack from Ascend Dynamics heads for next development phase
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes Low level airspace in the future will have to accommodate more than eVTOLs and drones. SkyPak is an unmanned, proof-of-concept, all-electric, flying
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Wisk and Skyports publish joint CONOPS for autonomous UAM vertiport operations
Wisk Aero and Skyports have jointly released a Concept of Operations (ConOps) which identifies how autonomous eVTOL aircraft and operators will integrate with vertiports, including interactions with
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USAF test-flies BETA’s ALIA eVTOL with military pilots on board
The US Air Force Materiel Command reports United States Air Force pilots Hank “Hog” Griffiths and Maj. Jonathan Appleby flew BETA Technologies’ electric vertical takeoff
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MySkaut, Giancarlo Zema partner to develop “vertiport/vertistop secure drone nesting structures”
Formenton Security Group and XtraMedium Communications, through their MySkaut venture company, has partnered with the Giancarlo Zema Design Group to combine security guard intervention and
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Korean Air joins urban air mobility research and development led by transportation ministry
Korea’s national flag carrier Korean Air has announced that it is taking part in a government-led research and development project of an urban air mobility
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Electrification of Air Mobility 101: challenges, opportunities, facts, and fiction
Welojets cofounder Alfredo Lisdero weighs in on the current and future situation of the air mobility ecosystem. What we know today While electrification of air
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Japanese investment fund raises Yen 10 billion to support drone industry expansion
DRONE FUND has officially closed its third fund (DRONE FUND III Investment Limited Partnership) after having raised a total of Japanese Yen 10.5 billion. The
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“The real industry bottleneck is fear of a mid-air collision” – ICAO Drone Enable 2022
By Jenny Beechener Five speakers agreed on the need for a layered safety case approach to low altitude drone separation at the ICAO Drone Enable
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