Air taxis and personal transports Archives - Page 3 of 25

Lilium and Ferrovial to partner on “10 or more vertiports in U.S.”

January 28, 2021 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports

By Chris Stonor Lilium, the eVTOL air taxi jet company service, and Ferrovial, a global infrastructure operator, have signed a framework agreement to develop a

UK to build urban air mobility airport in Coventry by year end

January 28, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

Urban Air Port® Air-One® has today been selected as a winner of the UK government’s Future Flight Challenge to develop aviation infrastructure and systems that

UK: South West gains government grant funding to investigate feasibility of electric air taxis

January 27, 2021 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports, Business Partnerships, Public consultation, Research, UAM infrastructure

By Chris Stonor The South West of England has been awarded a Government grant to investigate the feasibility of using electric air taxis across the

Terrafugia Transition Roadable Aircraft cleared for takeoff

January 27, 2021 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports

By Chris Stonor Terrafugia announced this week that its Transition Roadable Aircraft has been cleared for take-off after obtaining an FAA Special Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA)

EHang partners with European Union’s AMU-LED Project

January 22, 2021 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports

By Chris Stonor EHang announced this week its partnership with the EU’s AMU_LED (Air Mobility Urban – Large Experimental Demonstration) project to demonstrate the feasibility

Europe’s AMU-LED programme “will fly more than 100 UAM flight hours by 2022”

January 21, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

Seventeen urban air mobility companies and organisations have launched the AMU-LED project, which will be built up over two years, with the ultimate goal of

Urban Aero is developing a hydrogen powered passenger VTOL

January 20, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes 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

UK UAM consortium to explore eVTOL services between London airports

January 20, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

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

Paris urban air mobility consortium announces industry partners

January 19, 2021 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports, Cargo and logistics, Government investment, New city projects, Research, UAM infrastructure

By Chris Stonor To create an urban air mobility (UAM) ecosystem around the Paris region, the RATP Group, Groupe ADP and Choose Paris Region, launched

Volocopter announces “FAA has accepted concurrent Type Certificate validation”

January 15, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports

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