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 sensing and flight technologies, including inertial measurement units, attitude heading […]

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 a Jetsons-style short commute. However, vertical take off aircraft (VTOLs)—which […]

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 4GAMECHANGERS Festival, visitors will experience a European premiere: the first […]

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 urban air mobility platforms and large commercial aircraft. According to […]

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 the leading companies in the up-and-coming air mobility industry. Together, […]

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 the company: “The design of the aircraft addresses all of […]

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 of a hybrid system using the M250 gas turbine – […]

Airbus has shown an early version of its CityAirbus four-seat urban air taxi on March 11 in Ingolstadt. Germany, where test flights of the aircraft will take place over the next few months. German Transport […]

Embraer X will be showcasing its urban air mobility eco-system concepts at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, March 8-13, 2019. “The Prototype Room” (Hilton Austin Downtown hotel, room 602) will feature a […]

At HAI Heli-Expo in Atlanta on 4 March, helicopter company Sikorsky announced plans to partner with Otis Elevator Company and The Spaceship Company – which makes spaceships for Virgin Galactic – to develop new technologies […]