Emerging regulations

EUROCAE publishes guidance material for EASA hybrid electric propulsion compliance

European standards body EUROCAE has published the WG-113 Hybrid Electric Propulsion working group’s guidance material for means of compliance for EASA’s SC E-19 EHPS.420 demonstration. According to a Linkedin post: “Based on new publication of SC-EHPS, […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Lilium and Fraport partner to provide eVTOL infrastructure at airports

Airport operator Fraport and Lilium N.V. have announced their strategic collaboration to explore required planning and approval steps for state-of-the-art infrastructure for the implementation of commercial eVTOL operations at airports. Fraport is active at 30 […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Spain’s Crisalion Mobility granted EUR5.4 million from government innovation investor

Crisalion Mobility, a Spanish eVTOL developer, has been selected by CDTI Innovación (Centre for Technology Development and Innovation), under its Innvierte programme, and by Cuyam (Grupo Valdemira) to receive a total investment of EUR5.4 million. […]

Air taxis and personal transports

CES 2024: Supernal debuts its SA-2 eVTOL concept – commercial service planned for 2028

Supernal LLC – Hyundai Motor Group’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) company – today unveiled S-A2, its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle product concept at CES 2024. The pilot-plus-four-passenger vehicle  builds on the Company’s […]

Emerging regulations

RTCA explores the concept of digital flight in white paper ‘enabling future operational concepts’

US standards agency RTCA has published the white paper: Forum for Digital Flight: Enabling Future Operational Concepts in the National Airspace System for All Airspace Users in a call to action in the near term and […]

Vertiports

“Vertiports will need greater FATO safety areas than currently recommended” – new study

A new research paper from Washington State Department of Transportation Aviation Division, authored by David Ison (“Compatible Land Use for Heliports and Vertiports: A Safety Perspective”) suggests that eVTOL operations will require greater final approach […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

EHang confirms first commercial eVTOL demonstration flights – in Hefei and Guangzhou

EHang Holdings Limited has announced that on December 28 the EH216-S pilotless passenger-carrying aerial vehicles successfully completed debut commercial flight demonstrations in Guangzhou and Hefei respectively, “marking another major step towards normalizing flights with EH216-S […]