Air taxis and personal transports

SkyGrid, Wisk Aero propose new class of flight rules to enable automated AAM operations

SkyGrid and Wisk Aero have released a new white paper, Enabling Scalable Urban Air Mobility Through Automated Flight Rules, outlining how Automated Flight Rules (AFR) can enable the safe and scalable integration of Urban Air […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

Electra joins Virginia’s AAM smart airspace programme to trial AAM IFR routeings

Electra today announced a new partnership with the Virginia Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Smart Airspace Program to design, implement, and test a first-of-its-kind, low-cost instrument flight rules (IFR) network for Ultra Short and other advanced […]

Vertiports

Airmobility, Skyportz partner to introduce the Aeroberm™ modular vertiport to Japan

AirMobility and Skyportz have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance the introduction of Skyportz’s patented modular vertipad, the Aeroberm™, into the Japanese market. AirMobility Inc. aims to combine the Aeroberm™ with its proprietary […]

Emerging regulations

New US Senate proposed legislation “will speed FAA certification of US eVTOLs”

A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators – John Curtis (R-UT), Peter Welch (D-VT), Ted Budd (R-NC), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Jerry Moran (R-KA), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Tim Sheehy (R-MT), and Todd Young (R-IN) – will introduce […]

Air taxis and personal transports

INFLYNC announces “first flight of the world’s first full-scale tilt-wing ducted fan eVTOL”

China’s INFLYNC has announced in a Linkedin post that “the world’s first full scale tilt wing ducted fan eVTOL — INFLYNC L600 has successfully completed its first flight.” According to the company: “INFLYNC L600 has […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

SkyDrive formalizes sales agreement for ten eVTOLs and route network plans with Taiwan’s 7ADrones

SkyDrive reports it has reached a general understanding with 7A Drones, a major Taiwanese drone system company, for the purchase of 10 “SKYDRIVE” (SkyDrive Model SD-05) eVTOL aircraft. This agreement outlines the framework, including pricing […]

Fixed wing low/zero emissions

Electra’s hybrid-electric propulsion and flight control architecture now patent protected

Electra reports it has been granted a series of U.S. patents that protect core components of its hybrid-electric propulsion and flight control architecture, a system designed to enable Ultra Short takeoff and landing operations while […]