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Air taxis and personal transports

Cyclotech eVTOL BlackBird demonstrator makes maiden flight

CycloTech has announced the successful maiden flight of its BlackBird demonstrator, on 27 March. “The BlackBird showcases a completely new aircraft configuration, equipped with six advanced seventh generation CycloRotors,” reports the company, “two more than […]

Air taxis and personal transports

UK CAA authorises Skyfly to start airborne transitions with its Axe vertically capable aircraft

The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has authorised Skyfly’s test pilots, Dr. Bill Brooks and Phil Hall, to begin testing airborne transitions with the Axe VCA (Vertically-Capable Aircraft). “These critical tests will see the Axe […]

Emerging regulations

24 Asia Pacific States develop reference material for eVTOLs and drones – CAAS seeks feedback

Kylie Bielby Twenty-four Asia-Pacific states and administrations have jointly developed a set of reference materials on advanced air mobility (AAM) for civil aviation authorities in the Asia-Pacific region to facilitate operations of electric vertical take-off […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Volar announces electric aircraft innovations – including Part-23 certified commercial model

Volar Air Mobility Limited, a Hong Kong-based green air mobility technology company founded in 2020, has announced that with its partner, Liaoning General Aviation Academy (LGAA), it has developed three electric aircraft innovations: RX1E-A: The […]

Business partnerships

Air taxis and personal transports

Volocopter partners with Jet Systems Hélicoptères Service to offer eVTOL services in Paris

Volocopter has announced a new partnership with Jet Systems Hélicoptères Services, a licensed air service offering with over thirty years of passenger flight services, announced that they had signed an agreement to bring electric vertical […]

Vertiports

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 […]

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