Air taxis and personal transports

Dassault Systèmes has announced that Blue Spirit Aero, the France-based aviation startup developing hydrogen fuel cell technology in an eVTOL programme, is using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud to accelerate the development of […]

In a widely reported message to shareholders on November 3 2022, the company’s founder and CEO JoeBen Bevirt said the  company is delaying the commercial launch of eVTOL services until 2025, in part, because of […]

Carlos Póveda is Chief Executive Officer at UMILES Group & Founder at UMILES Next Could you please give an update on the Concept Integrity eVTOL programme – flight testing and certification, for example. Concept Integrity […]

NEOM, the smart and sustainable regional development in northwest Saudi Arabia, has announced a USD175 million Series E investment in Volocopter. According to a press release: “This deal will expand NEOM’s strategic partnership with Volocopter […]

Lovenie, a French start-up, is reported to have begun its first “stabilised flight tests” of its recreational flying kart single-seat prototype, planning the first finished kart test flights in Spring 2023, said David Dricourt, founder […]

LIFT Aircraft™ has announced announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the owners of Charm, one of the largest helicopter tour operators on the US East Coast, to offer sight seeing […]

The electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft designed by UMILES Next, Concept Integrity, equipped with FlyFree technology developed by research partner TECNALIA, took to the skies successfully over Jaén, Spain today. Following its recent […]

SAUDIA, the national flag carrier of Saudi Arabia, and Lilium N.V., at the sixth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the proposed development and operation by SAUDIA […]

XPENG AEROHT has released a video of a flight of its eVTOL flying car. According to the company: “Designed for both air flight and road driving, the flying car conveniently features a sleek rotor fold-away […]

AFI KLM E&M and Ascendance Flight Technologies have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore potential collaborations in the coming months in four main areas: line maintenance, component repair, mechanics training […]