Air taxis and personal transports

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 […]