Commentary

“Smart City” efforts appear to be significantly behind where they can and should be in ensuring safe urban environments for new air and ground services and technology. We seem to be missing end-state design and […]

Eszter Kovács is the CEO and Founder of Manageld Ltd and DroneTalks.online, and Acting Secretary General of Global UTM Association  What’s the aim of DroneTalks? We set up https://dronetalks.online/ to educate and inform the entire drone ecosystem […]

 By Gary Cutts, Challenge Director, Future Flight, UK Research and Innovation The UK has been at the forefront of aviation for more than 100 years. Now, the Future Flight Challenge aims to lead a new […]

By David Gleave Setting the target level of safety for unmanned operations has been causing difficulties across the industry for a while.  This article seeks to go back to the basics of safety-risk management and […]

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published its proposed methods on how to certify hybrid or electric air taxis. David Gleave, safety editor with Unmanned Publications, assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed regulations. […]

Manu Lubrano, Ph.D, CEO and Co-Founder, INVOLI AG (expressed opinions are my own) My grandpa fought the Second World War. He was part of the Italian resistance movement but he was not a soldier, he […]

This commentary was originally published in the September/Octoctober 2019 issue of the Vertical Flight Society’s Vertiflite magazine and is republished with permission. The Vertical Flight Society has been supporting the development of electric vertical take-off and landing […]

As global societies increasingly rely upon the digital space to deliver almost everything from health, transport, logistics solutions to infrastructure, energy systems and smart cities, the modular, inter-related architectures deployed to deliver these services will […]