Air taxis and personal transports

Manta Aircraft and Shenyang Aviation partner to deploy hybrid electric regional air services

Italy’s Manta Aircraft and China’s Shenyang Aviation Industries Group have announced they are establishing a partnership to develop the Manta ANN hybrid electric HeV/STOL for the regional air mobility markets. “The solution of the hybrid […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

Bye Aerospace’s E-Flyer “on track for certification; electric air taxi route planned for Australia”

Fly On E Sustainable Aviation in a Linkedin post reports that the Bye Aerospace E-Flyer is “on track for FAA Part 23 certification and service entry in the next 24 to 30 months.” E-Flyer aircraft […]

Air taxis and personal transports

India’s BluJ “conducts first flight of its hydrogen-powered VTOL prototype”

Indian Aerospace Defence News reports that Hyderabad-based startup BluJ Aerospace Private Limited has successfully conducted a flight test of India’s first hydrogen-electric propulsion based vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft prototype. BluJ is developing two […]

Air taxis and personal transports

“Lilium GmbH and Lilium eAircraft GmbH plan on filing for insolvency imminently”

According to a public filing of FORM 6-K to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as published by the www.publicnow.com website, “As previously reported, Lilium N.V. (the “Company” or “Lilium”) has been engaged in fundraising […]