Air taxis and personal transports

“First commercial EHang EH216 flight planned for December 28 in Hefei City”

By Philip Butterworth-Hayes China’s “The Paper”, based in Anhui province, reports that on December 28, 2023, Hefei City’s Luogang Park “will host the world’s first commercial flight of EHang’s unmanned manned aircraft.” If the flight […]

UTM

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) […]