By Chris Stonor On November 19th, Urban Air Mobility News (UAMN) published its first story about the Swiss-based company Manta Aircraft and its hybrid HeVSTOL-powered Ann Series.
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Category: Experimental craft
UK: Faradair Aerospace partner consortium to build 300 hybrid-powered aircraft by 2030
By Chris Stonor UK Faradair Aerospace, a British start-up, headed by Neil Cloughley and based at the Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire, announced today a partnership
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Mechanical gripper allows drones “to hang from objects”
By Chris Stonor Tiny quadcopter drones aka micro air vehicles (MAVs), have short battery lives, so if they can “perch” or “park” somewhere instead of
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Hybrid Air Vehicle: Meet the Airlander
By Chris Stonor In an Urban Air Mobility News occasional series of more exotic aerial vehicles either already on the market or presently being designed, it
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Agility Prime: Tangram Flex awarded contract by U.S. Air Force
By Chris Stonor Tangram Flex, a tech innovation company from Dayton, Ohio, has been awarded a contract to support the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime
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Electric aircraft start-up Metro Hop gains grant from European Space Agency
By Chris Stonor Metro Hop’s German division, Metro Hop Technik GMBH, has been awarded a grant from the European Space Agency’s business incubation centre (ESA
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Welcome to Airspeeder: “Motorsport in the Sky”
By Chris Stonor In a rapidly developing and expanding aerial vehicle market, new companies are emerging all the time. The vast majority will never make
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Drones may soon be disinfecting soccer stadiums and music venues in the UK
By Chris Stonor Urban Air Mobility News has covered various stories this year from the U.S. where drones have been used to disinfect American football stadiums
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U.S. University of Buffalo constructs large outdoor drone testing facility
By Chris Stonor The American University of Buffalo (UB) has recently constructed a large and new enclosed netted complex where faculty, students and partners can
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Manta Aircraft begin demonstrator trials of its “ANN Series”
By Chris Stonor Urban Air Mobility News featured last week a recent start-up from Switzerland called Manta Aircraft. The company is in the early stages of
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