AutoFlight

By Graham Warwick
Advanced air mobility startups in China are advancing quickly as Beijing drives to establish a low-altitude economy.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
China’s battery giant CATL has agreed to invest “hundreds of millions of dollars” in AutoFlight, the Shanghai-based eVTOL aircraft developer.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Ottobrun near Munich, ERC Systems is seeking to launch services later this decade.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Japanese nonprofit MASC has launched a project to commercialize advanced air mobility (AAM) in Japan’s Setouchi region.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
AutoFlight’s V2000CG CarryAll received Chinese type certification on March 22, the first certification of a winged eVTOL aircraft in the world.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
EHang returned to the top slot in the April 2024 edition of the AAM Reality Index, with a score of 8.5/10.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The Prosperity air taxi will be used for urban air traffic demonstration flights conducted in preparation for the Osaka World Expo in 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
AeroHT is developing the Land-based Aircraft Carrier, an all-electric, five-passenger off-road SUV that carries a two-passenger multirotor eVTOL in its trunk.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The CarryAll is the first version of AutoFlight’s planned Prosperity family of 2,000-kg gross weight eVTOL uncrewed cargo and piloted passenger aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Joe Anselmo, Graham Warwick, Ben Goldstein, Sergio Cecutta
Having seized the pole position in electric vehicles, Chinese industry is racing ahead in advanced air mobility.
Check 6

By Ben Goldstein
Chinese startup Autoflight’s CarryAll uncrewed electric eVTOL vehicle is expected to be type certified by Chinese regulators in the coming weeks.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Aviation Week ranks the 15 leading companies in the nascent eVTOL market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
AutoFlight expects certification early this year.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
AI leaders cooperate; Cargo eVTOL flies; UK extends R&D funding; and China’s firefighting eVTOL.
Emerging Technologies

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Lindsay Bjerregaard, managing editor for MRO, talks to Jocelyn Moreau, head of operations at AutoFlight Europe about the Prosperity, eVTOL aircraft.
Dubai Airshow

By Ben Goldstein
To many foreign observers, the fast-growing Chinese advanced air mobility industry is a black box.
NBAA

By Graham Warwick
Zero Gravity Aircraft Industry has raised almost $14 million to fund development and flight testing of its ZG-T6 six-seat tiltrotor eVTOL aircraft
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Tier 1 aerospace suppliers see the AAM industry as a way to bridge the business and technology gaps to the next single-aisle airliner.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
China’s AutoFlight is claiming a world first with the formation flight of three prototypes of its planned Prosperity 1 air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick, Ben Goldstein
Startups look to larger vehicles as eVTOL leaders move into the all-important certification testing phase.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Chinese startup AutoFlight is debuting its fourth full-scale proof-of-concept electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi at the Paris Air Show.
Paris Air Show

By Graham Warwick
With eyes on the market inside and outside the country, Chinese eVTOL-makers are claiming low costs that could spell a challenge for their Western competitors.
Paris Air Show

By Graham Warwick
Omer Bar-Yohay has stepped down as president of AutoFlight to focus on a firefighting data startup he co-founded.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Aerofugia is a subsidiary of Chinese automaker Geely.
Advanced Air Mobility