Korea’s national flag carrier Korean Air has announced that it is taking part in a government-led research and development project of an urban air mobility
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Category: UAM infrastructure
Airport Gurus and Ferrovial link to support US and European vertiport expansion
According to a LinkedIn post today the Airport Gurus company is “engaging with Ferrovial on the Conceptual Design of all the vertiport systems and digital
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Volatus announces construction of permanent eVTOL vertiport in Wisconsin
Volatus Infrastructure, LLC, in partnership with Wittman Regional Airport and Greater Oshkosh Economic Development Corporation, has announced it will build the “first permanent electric vertical
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Detect and Avoid technology wins NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year 2021 award
NASA has announced this week that the technology licensed to Vigilant Aerospace and used in the company’s FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid and airspace management product has won
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Urban-Air Port collaborate with Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) to develop “new unmanned and manned aerial vehicle hub”
By Chris Stonor Urban-Air Port (UAP) is to collaborate with Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) to develop an off-grid, hydrogen-powered infrastructure hub at the airport, reports
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ADW 2020: Pan-European Urban Air Mobility Projects & Initiatives Community launched
European-Union funded urban air mobility (UAM) research programmes and supporting partners have formed a new alliance to support the European Commission by bringing together local,
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UK: Is a 165-mile drone “superhighway” connecting Midlands with Southeast really possible?
By Chris Stonor News broke late last week that a UK consortium led by Reading-based UTM (Unified Traffic Management) software provider Altitude Angel, are planning
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EASA issues “world’s first design specifications for vertiports”
By Chris Stonor The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published “the world’s first guidance for the design of vertiports”, the ground infrastructure needed
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Watch NASA video: “AAM looks ahead to automation”
By Chris Stonor This NASA’s blog article written by Teresa Whiting from the Armstrong Flight Research Centre, opens with “Using software to handle tasks to
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Read Interview: Andrew Chadwick of Connected Places Catapult
By Chris Stonor Whether by coincidence or design, some UAM-related companies under the radar suddenly come to prominence, where media coverage is full-on over a
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