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German research consortium “making progress in integrating eVTOL operations at large airports”

DFS Aviation Services (DAS) in collaboration with Munich Airport International, Munich Airport , DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH and Airbus Helicopters is researching the safe and efficient integration of eVTOL operations into existing airspace systems in a project funded by the Free State of Bavaria. “This [...]

Wenfeng’s Diamond Industries integrates Volocopter into its business portfolio

Diamond Aircraft Industries, based in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, has integrated Volocopter, with the company headquarter remaining in Bruchsal, Germany. Diamond Aircraft is a subsidiary of Wanfeng Aircraft Division of Wanfeng Auto Holding Group, “and is an internationally renowned general aircraft manufacturer with over four decades [...]

Advanced Air Mobility Institute offers discount to members for Global AAM/UAM Market Map access

The Advanced Air Mobility Institute has announce a new collaboration with Global AAM/UAM Market Map, providing members with valuable insights into the rapidly evolving Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) sectors. As part of this collaboration, the AAM Institute has negotiated an [...]

Virgin Atlantic and Joby to launch eVTOL air taxi services in the UK

March 16, 2025 Comments Off

Joby Aviation today announced a partnership with Virgin Atlantic for air taxi services in the UK. “The partnership builds on an existing agreement between Joby and Delta Air Lines – which owns a 49 percent […]

Eve Air Mobility and UI Helicopter partner to advance AAM ecosystem development in South Korea

March 13, 2025 Comments Off

Eve Air Mobility and UI Helicopter, South Korea’s leading helicopter operator and maintenance provider, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cultivate the industry’s ecosystem in South Korea. Eve and UI Helicopter will collaborate to […]

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

February 18, 2025 Comments Off

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 […]

Eve partners with PRS Aeroportos, UrbanV, VertiMob in Brazil AAM regulatory vertiport trial

February 4, 2025 Comments Off

Eve Air Mobility has announced its collaboration with PRS Aeroportos – participating as a consortium between Pax Aeroportos SA, concessionaire of Campo de Marte Airport, and UrbanV SpA, vertiport operator – and VertiMob Infrastructure Ltda […]

SkyDrive and JetSetGo Aviation partner to develop AAM services in Gujarat

January 28, 2025 Comments Off

SkyDrive Inc has announced the signing of a strategic partnership with JetSetGo Aviation Services Pvt to explore new business structures, initially in the state of Gujarat and potentially in other locations across India. JetSetGo, one […]

Electra, Hunch Mobility (BLADE India) partner on developing hybrid electric aircraft services in India

January 24, 2025 Comments Off

Electra and Hunch Mobility have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to use Electra’s EL9 Ultra Short hybrid-electric aircraft to expand on-demand regional air travel to communities across India. The MoU was formalized at the […]

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

March 23, 2025 Comments Off

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 […]

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

March 14, 2025 Comments Off

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 […]

“In weather forecasting, with drones and eVTOLs we are at not where we should be”

March 12, 2025 Comments Off

We have only just started to understand the potential impact of variable weather conditions on eVTOLs and drones, says Don Berchoff, CEO, TruWeather Solutions Inc. Where do you sit in the drone/advanced air mobility ecosystem? […]

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

March 11, 2025 Comments Off

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 […]

Vertiport site selection/planning “ten times faster” with new LYNEports v2.0 planning tool

March 11, 2025 Comments Off

LYNEports has launched LYNEports v2.0 vertiport/aerodrome planning tool, introducing new and enhanced features to streamline vertiport planning. “The new tool will make vertiport planning up to ten times faster than previous design tools and make […]

Spanish AAM industry cluster publishes vertiport planning, implementation white paper

March 3, 2025 Comments Off

The Spanish Cluster of Innovative Air Mobility (SIAM) has published a white paper on vertiports to “define the bases for the development of the land-based infrastructures that will support Innovative Air Mobility (IAM), of which […]