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Astro Aerospace “joins NASA’s urban air mobility Grand Challenge industry team”

May 13, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

Helicopter Investor reports that autonomous eVTOL manufacturer Astro Aerospace has been selected as NASA’s newest urban air mobility partner. “Astro will join more than 400

Air taxi/flying car parachute company ASR expands into new production facilities

May 9, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

Air taxi and flying car parachute manufacturer Aviation Safety Resources has announced today it is expanding and moving its corporate headquarters to Stanford, Kentucky, USA.

Uber Elevate confirms speakers for June 11-12 Washington event

May 8, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

The Uber Elevate Summit convenes leaders from across academia, industry, government, policy, and technology for a two-day immersive event on June 11 – 12, 2019,

Russia’s Bartini “successfully flight tests prototype urban air taxi”

May 7, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

Aerospace Testing International reports that Russian startup Bartini and engineers from Russia’s National University of Science and Technology Misis in Moscow have successfully flight tested

Single-seat Neo Crimson S8 aimed at “25 cities in the US by 2025 with 1,000 units per city”

May 6, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

Singapore’s Straits Times reports that Neo Aerospace has unveiled a one-seater flying vehicle that it hopes could be used for door-to-door transportation in urban areas

CityAirbus air taxi demonstrator flies for the first time

May 3, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

Social media reports today say that Airbus and its partner Siemens have made the first, tethered flight of the 2.2 tonne electrically powered urban air

AutoFlight X unveils the V600 – larger cargo version planned for 2023

April 12, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

At Aero Friedrichshafen 2019 German start-up AutoFlightX unveiled its V600 all-electric technical demonstrator – a prototype to a new, larger range of air taxi and

Norway’s OSM orders 60 electric aircraft to train pilots on sustainable energy platforms

April 11, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

Norway’s OSM Aviation, a provider of air crew for the international airline industry, has announced today that it has placed an order for 60 all-electric

Honeywell navigation and landing systems to feature in Volocopter air taxis

April 11, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

Honeywell and Volocopter have signed an agreement to jointly test and develop new navigation and automatic landing systems for Volocopter’s vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Honeywell’s autonomous

“Flying cars greener than road vehicles after 100km” – new research

April 10, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

A new study from Ford and the University of Michigan of the environmental sustainability impacts of flying cars suggests that they wouldn’t be suitable for