Category: 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Austria’s FACC and China’s EHang Air Mobility Group will take their air taxi to series production in Austria by 2020. According to EHang: At the

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Airbus A3, the company’s Silicon Valley innovation centre, has launched a programme to develop autonomy control systems to be integrated into the company’s range of

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Sumitomo Corporation has announced its alliance with Bell, a Fort Worth, Texas-based company known as the premier provider of vertical lift aircraft and one of

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At LIMA’19 UK start-up Samad Aerospace has launched HUMATM (Home & Urban Mobility Aircraft), a two-seater 2-in-1 combination of all-electric VTOL aircraft and car. According to

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Rolls-Royce has taken what it says is a significant step towards providing hybrid-electric propulsion systems for the next generation of aviation, with successful ground tests

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