Air taxis and personal transports

The New Zealand Government has signed a memorandum of understanding with urban air mobility company Wisk (https://www.urbanairmobilitynews.com/air-taxis/boeing-and-kittyhawk-launch-wisk-company-to-develop-the-cora-air-taxi/) to support a transport trial of the company’s Cora air taxi in Canterbury, according to Research, Science and […]

EHang on 8 January 2020 conducted its first-ever U.S. trial flight of its two-seat passenger autonomous air vehicle (AAV), the EHang 216, as part of the North Carolina Transportation Summit hosted by the North Carolina Department […]

Airbus has announced it has completed work on Vahana urban air vehicle programme. “On 14 November 2019, the final page of the Vahana story was written at the Pendleton UAS Range in Oregon, USA. Here, […]

Boeing and Kittyhawk have launched a new company Wisk to develop the Cora self-flying, all-electric air taxi. Cora is an all-electric, self-flying, 2 person eVTOL aircraft that takes off like a helicopter and flies like […]

Ehang has announced a strategic partnership with Vodafone to collaborate on building out an urban air mobility (UAM) ecosystem first in Germany and then Europe-wide. According to an Ehang press release: “Under the agreement, Vodafone will become EHang’s […]

Airbus Helicopters and EASA have signed a joint Memorandum of Cooperation aiming to bring together their respective experiences and know-how to bring the next generation of VTOL platforms to life, along with the necessary regulatory […]

Volocopter made the first urban demonstration flight of an electrically-powered air taxi in a European city centre with a flight in Stuttgart of September 9. The flight was a highlight of the two-day event “Vision […]

By Michael Doran At the June 2019 Uber Elevate Summit in Washington, Melbourne was announced as the third city to join the Uber Air program and become part of the vision to bring this new […]

Boeing and Kitty Hawk Corporation have announced a strategic partnership to collaborate on future efforts to advance safe urban air mobility. “Working with a company like Kitty Hawk brings us closer to our goal of […]