AAM_Tech_Developments

By Carole Rickard Hedden
Airbus and Ecocopter of Chile sign memorandum of understanding to explore and define launch scenarios for air mobility operations.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Carole Rickard Hedden
Universal Hydrogen CEO and co-founder Paul Eremenko has another project lined up toward meeting his long-held goal of transforming regional air transportation
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Mako Aerospace is a Scottish startup developing an electric jet engine for small regional airliners.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Carole Rickard Hedden
When Embraer launched its advanced air mobility efforts, the company took a slightly different tack.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Eviation Aircraft is set to begin high-speed taxi tests of the all-electric Alice aircraft in coming days as part of final preparations for first flight, says the company’s new CEO, Greg Davis.
Business Aviation

By Garrett Reim
AeroVironment has unveiled a visual-based navigation system for its Puma 2 AE and Puma 3 AE reconnaissance drones for situations when GPS signals are jammed or disrupted.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
The FAA has awarded Raytheon Intelligence & Space an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling of $375 million over 10 years to upgrade the Wide Area Augmentation System space-based precision navigation system.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Detroit startup Airspace Experience Technologies has completed the first hover flight of its proof-of-concept Sigma Six, a tiltwing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle with interchangeable plug-and-play payloads for defense, emergency response, cargo and passenger transport missions.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Air Canada has placed a preorder for 30 of the aircraft, now called the ES-30.
Aerospace

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. Navy research center has received the first of three transverse folding-wing uncrewed air systems supplied by Pterodynamics to start the next phase of a months-long prototyping demonstration for autonomous cargo delivery at sea.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Graham Warwick
LiquidPiston is to demonstrate a hybrid-electric propulsion system based on its rotary diesel engine in a vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed aircraft system under a contract from the U.S. Army.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Europe has launched a research project to develop a liquid hydrogen tank that is integrated into the aircraft’s fuselage to maximize volume and minimize weight.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. Air Force innovation arm AFWerx is planning an Autonomy Prime program and proposing an Autonomy Proving Ground to test the technologies.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Israel’s Urban Aeronautics is looking to complete development, certification and assembly of its CityHawk enclosed-rotor, hydrogen-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi in Montreal.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Sensor manufacturer Teledyne FLIR has unveiled a commercial drone targeted for the infrastructure-inspection and other markets.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Electra.aero has passed a key milestone toward development of its electric short-takeoff-and-landing regional aircraft, completing a fully integrated ground test of its hybrid-electric propulsion system.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
The latest trend in advanced air mobility is to test operating concepts for urban air-taxis using helicopters as surrogates for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Blue Islands, a Jersey-based regional airline that connects the Channel Islands with the UK and France, has signed a letter of intent with Universal Hydrogen to
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
NASA has awarded TruWeather Solutions a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to test a network of ground-based weather sensors in Hampton, Virginia.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Two demonstrators and a startup fuel growing activity in advanced air mobility in China.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick, Thierry Dubois
The move signals the growing importance of electric power in new aircraft designs.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Shanghai-based Vertax has flown a half-scale model of its design and is targeting certification in 2026.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The aircraft is expected to begin remotely piloted test flights before the end of the year.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Ultralight aircraft are usually the simplest of flying machines, often just tube and fabric—no certification, no pilot’s license, no commercial use.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Details have emerged of two additional consortia bidding to participate in South Korea’s K-UAM Grand Challenge urban air mobility demonstration project.
Advanced Air Mobility