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German Air Taxi service pioneer Lilium completes funding round worth more than USD240 million

March 23, 2020 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports

Lilium, the Munich-based aviation company developing an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing aircraft for air mobility, has announced the completion of internal funding worth more

Watch latest video from Volocopter outlining its “VoloCHRIS” concept

March 19, 2020 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports

A new video from Volocopter outlines its “voloCHRIS” concept for autonomous air taxi operations, developed with the support of the German Federal Ministry of Transport

Urban Aeronautics partners with Ascent to bring CityHawk to market

March 19, 2020 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports

According to eVTOL.com , the Israeli aircraft developer, Urban Aeronautics (UA), is teaming up with Singapore-based company, Ascent, to accelerate the commercialisation of the CityHawk,

“Loss of hover lift thrust due to false rotor speed readings caused crash of Aurora PAV” – NTSB

March 18, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports, Uncategorized

A US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) aviation accident report published on 13 March 2020 into the crash of an Aurora Flight Sciences Pegasus Passenger

EHang sign agreement for testing drones in Southern Europe

March 12, 2020 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports

This week Chinese drone manufacturer EHang signed a cooperation agreement with the municipality of Llíria (Valencia – Spain) for the development of a test & certification

Electric air taxis could become a USD1.5 trillion global market by 2040

March 9, 2020 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports

According to CNBC Tech Trends, a recent study by ‘Morgan Stanley Research’ predicts electric air taxis could be as big as a USD1.5 trillion market

Ehang receives operational permit for autonomous air taxi testing in Norway

March 6, 2020 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports

EHang’s 216 two-seater passenger air taxi has been given an operational flight permit by Norway’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), for long-term testing and lays the

MVRDV collaborate with Airbus to integrate Vertiports within cities

March 6, 2020 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports

According to Dezeen Magazine, Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has collaborated with aircraft manufacturer Airbus to research how landing hubs for passenger drones called vertiports, could

NASA names 17 companies to participate in UAM Grand Challenge technology demonstrations

March 4, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Air taxis and personal transports, Government contracts

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has signed Space Act Agreements with 17 companies in the aviation industry to advance plans for the first in a series of technology demonstrations known as the Urban Air Mobility (UAM)

Fire causes severe damage to Lilium’s first full-scale Jet prototype

March 2, 2020 Chris Stonor Air taxis and personal transports

The German eVTOL developer Lilium has confirmed that its first Jet prototype was substantially damaged in a fire at its Munich headquarters last week. According