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Joby, NASA simulation demonstrates ‘up to 120 air taxi operations per hour’ in busy airspace

Joby Aviation, a company developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for commercial passenger service, reports successful completion of a series of air traffic simulations with NASA’s Ames Research Center that evaluated how air […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Wisk Aero’s latest ConOps – the role of the human as the ultimate back-up is still unclear

By Philip Butterworth-Hayes Wisk Aero has issued an update to its previously released Concept of Operations (ConOps) for Uncrewed Urban Air Mobility (UAM), jointly developed with The Boeing Company. The document provides a roadmap for the […]

Public consultation

Public acceptance of urban air mobility: new research to understand scientific basis for attitudes

The SESAR-backed ImAFUSA programme – a project seeking to develop a scientific basis for understanding societal reactions to urban air mobility programme – has launched a website in which it will publish the key results […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Overair receives US Navy contract for individual blade control eVTOL technology development

Overair, developer of all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, today announced the United States Navy has awarded Overair a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract to further develop the high-integrity individual blade control (IBC) […]