Air taxis and personal transports

South Korean start-up launches VTOL service concept which adapts from carbon fuel to electricity

South Korean start-up MOVIATION has launched a pioneering helicopter air taxi concept, VONAER, initially powered by conventional fossil fuel engines but with the capability of a swift adaption to electric engines when they become available. […]

Air taxis and personal transports

HCA Airport and Copenhagen Helicopter form partnership to establish vertiport site for flying taxis

A new partnership between HCA Airport in Odense and Copenhagen Helicopter will be the “first in Denmark to build an infrastructure for electrically-powered flying taxis – also called eVTOL, electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft […]

Research

New EUR 40 million European HECATE programme will research electric distribution systems

To support hybrid-electric propulsion systems, new high-voltage distribution technologies will be required as electric power levels increase from hundreds of kilowatts in today’s aircraft, to megawatt levels in the aircraft of the future. The HECATE […]

Air taxis and personal transports

BLADE and BETA Technologies complete demonstration flight of eVTOL over greater New York

Helicopter charter operator BLADE reports on social media that in partnership with BETA Technologies, it has “successfully completed the demonstration of a piloted quiet and emission-free electric vertical aircraft (“EVA” or “eVTOL”) in the greater […]