Air taxis and personal transports

Lilium signs regional transport service agreement with Dusseldorf and Cologne/Bonn airports

Lilium, the Munich-based company producing all-electric, vertical take-off and landing aircraft for regional air mobility markets, has agreed with both Dusseldorf Airport and Cologne/Bonn Airport to explore how the two airports can become hubs within […]

UAM infrastructure

Airservices Australia commissions QUT to develop auto-manage flight system for drones

Airservices Australia has commissioned the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) to develop a system to automatically manage flight requests for drones, reports brisbanetimes.com.au. At present, all approvals for drone flights are carried out manually, meaning there […]

Inspection and surveillance

Japan:  Start-up Earth Analyzer creates drone “to fly autonomously in areas with no GPS reception”

Japanese start-up, Earth Analyzer, located in the city of Ayabe in Kyoto Prefecture, has developed a drone that operates autonomously in places with no GPS reception, such as below girder bridges or in tunnels, reports […]

Inspection and surveillance

Percepto gains BVLOS approval to fly autonomous drones in Israel’s “ICL Dead Sea operations site”

Percepto, a leading provider of autonomous industrial drone solutions, announced this week that it has gained Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLoS) approval at the ICL Dead Sea site in Israel, reports innovateenergynow.com.  A waiver […]