electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL)

Lift Aircraft has won a U.S. Army contract to develop and demo a modular medical payload that enables its Hexa eVTOL to deliver blood and evacuate a casualty.

The 2025 Osaka World Expo has been promoted as an early opportunity for paying passengers to fly on electric air taxis, but this is now in doubt.

Galaxy FBO operates from several airports and heliports in the Houston Area.

The Munich-based company has now raised more than €135 million.

The tests were conducted at AeroTEC in Moses Lake, Washington.

China’s nascent electric air taxi industry is forging tighter links with the country’s automative manufacturers and its massive electric-vehicle supply chain.

The company’s briefing paper is titled “AAM: A Philosophical Guide For Early Operations.”

The new funds are intended to finance expanded production of Pyka’s autonomous electric fixed-wing aircraft, which come in two variants.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Sage Geosystems a $1.9 million contract to demonstrate geothermal powerplant technology that could power the service’s airfields.

China’s Hainan Island has published a three-year action plan to develop its low-altitude economy, including the establishment of eVTOL air routes.

Fiji Airways has signed an expression of interest to purchase Odys Aviation’s Laila hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) uncrewed cargo aircraft.

The advanced air mobility sector has proven itself to be surprisingly resilient.

Zhuhai-based Vertaxi was founded in April 2021 by two members of the team that developed China’s Comac C919 narrowbody airliner.

The flights were meant to show the aircraft could be used for logistics missions in austere environments.

The FAA has issued an update to its interim safety standards for vertiport design.

A final FAA rule outlining standards for pilot certification and operations of eVTOL aircraft is expected to be published before the end of the year.

Opened in April, Archer’s government affairs office is located at 500 L’Enfant Plaza.

Vertical Aerospace says it has enough cash to make it into the second quarter (Q2) of 2025.

The phrase “Valley of Death” describes the stage in which startups have begun operations but don’t yet have customers, and therefore revenues.

The RCS seaplane operations had a shaky start.

Inside a drive/fly eVTOL; NASA joins GoAero Prize; engine lubrication in a pod; and lithium-ion device fires on the rise.

The company is also anticipating receipt of its G-1 Certification Basis from the FAA “any day now.”

Airbus UAM CEO Balkiz Sarihan tells Aviation Week the CityAirbus NextGen full-scale eVTOL prototype is on track to make its first flight before year-end.

Joby on Sept. 10 presented a letter of intent to the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority.

Piasecki Aircraft has conducted the first tethered hover flights of the Ares tilt-duct vertical-takeoff-and-landing demonstrator.