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Vertiports

Skyportz vertipad wins innovation award

Skyportz’s air taxi vertipad design has received the Blue Sky Innovation Award at the Avalon International Airshow in Australia. Judges said the company was chosen because it had noted a problem with downwash velocities, anticipated […]

UAM infrastructure

“Airports will need to invest in renewable charging systems to prepare for electric regional air mobility”

“Airports should invest strategically in renewable energy sources and battery storage systems to support the operational demands of electric aircraft,” is a key recommendation from a new report “Study on electric regional air mobility integration […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Lyte Aviation, LYNEports and Bluenest to develop vertiports throughout the Middle East

Multiple social media reports say that UK-based hybrid hydrogen-electric VTOL aircraft developer Lyte Aviation and infrastructure developers LYNEPorts and Bluenest partnered to build vertiports throughout Middle East, stating in Oman and the UAE. According to […]

Vertiports

Skyportz releases vertipad patent “which may dissipate eVTOL energy 250% faster than flat landing surface”

At Avalon International Airshow in Melbourne today Australian vertiport developer Skyportz has released a patent for a modular vertipad that ameliorates downwash and outwash in urban locations. “The Swinburne University study released today has indicated […]

Vertiports

Cherokee Federal launches mobile, rapidly deployed VTOL/eVTOL landing platform

Cherokee Federal, the federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, has unveiled the patent-pending and rapidly deployable MVP™ (Mobile Vertipad Platform), “offering an unmatched mobile versatility for Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) and electric VTOL […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

Blade and Skyports launch Manhattan Heliport helicopter service as precursor to eVTOL operations

Blade Air Mobility and Skyports Infrastructure have announced an alliance today to launch a pilot programme that will expand Blade’s existing by-the-seat helicopter transfer service, connecting the Downtown Manhattan Heliport and John F. Kennedy International […]