Air taxis and personal transports

By Arie Egozi Israeli company Urban Aero, designer of the CityHawk urban air vehicle, is working with HyPoint to design a testing regime that will lead to the use of hydrogen as fuel for the […]

The UK Air Mobility Consortium has announced it has started work on a concept of operations for integrating air taxis and electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) into the UK’s airspace. The consortium, which […]

Volocopter has announced today that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) positively accepted application for concurrent Type Certificate validation on 22 December 2020. According to a company press release: “This sets the basis for Volocopter to […]

Air taxi manufacturer EHang reports it has signed an autonomous urban air mobility service agreement with its strategic partner Greenland Hong Kong Holdings Limited.  “The trial services include an aerial sightseeing programme and aerial media […]

By Arie Egozi Israeli company Colugo Systems is developing a two-passenger hybrid-electric “wind proof ” VTOL aircraft, with a full dome shaped canopy for excellent views, wings for a longer range and skid type landing […]

Volocopter and ADAC Luftrettung have announced today that ADAC Luftrettung has reserved two VoloCity electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. According to Volocopter: “After publishing the results of the world’s first feasibility study about […]

EHang Holdings Limited has announced it has achieved a significant milestone on the path to offering Urban Air Mobility (UAM) services worldwide with the December 9 announcement that the Civil Aviation Authority of Austria issued […]

Asia’s ability to make things happen to a timetable stems from close coordination at government level, said Duncan Walker CEO of Skyports, “It sounds simple, but it is rare in Europe and the US. We […]

By Jenny Beechener and Philip Butterworth-Hayes Discussions with member states on the European Union draft U-space regulation are going well and should be finalised by the start of next year – which means the entry […]

The Vertical Flight Society’s Vertiflite magazine has given an update (https://evtol.news/news/gofly-teams-prepare-to-fly-again) on the GoFly Prize competition, with the November announcement from GoFly: “While the Grand Prize remains USD1,000,000, we will now provide for an individual team demonstration […]