Government investment

UK government gives new funds to regulators to speed hydrogen-power, UTM and drone deployment

UK Science Minister George Freeman has today awarded up to UKP12 million (SD 14 million) to UK regulators and local authorities to pioneer innovative low carbon technologies – including drone, UTM and hydrogen-powered aviation research. […]

Vertiports

Skyports and Corporación América Airports link to develop vertiports in Latin America

Skyports Infrastructure and Corporación América Airports S.A (CAAP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to plan the development and deployment of vertiport infrastructure for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) operations. According to a […]

UTM

Volocopter “completes 2022 CORUS-XUAM deconfliction urban air mobility trial flights”

Volocopter reports it has completed a two-week test flight campaign for its multirotor heavy-lift cargo carrier, the VoloDrone. The campaign was run at the DLR National Experimental Test Centre for Unmanned Aircraft, Magdeburg-Cochstedt Airport, Germany. […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Airbus details hydrogen fuel-cell research – plans ZEROe flight demonstrations

Airbus and its partners have given more details about their hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion research. Fuel-cells generate electricity very efficiently through an electrochemical reaction, rather than via combustion. They also differ from batteries since they require […]

Emerging regulations

FAA proposes rule change to add powered lift aircraft operators to commercial operating rules

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a proposal to amend the regulatory definitions of certain air carrier and commercial operations to add powered-lift to these definitions “to ensure the appropriate sets of rules […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

Israel to trial passenger carrying eVTOLs and cargo drones in controlled urban airspace

The Israel Innovation Authority (IAA) has announced the start of a 60 million INS (USD17.5 million) second phase of the Israel’s National Drone Initiative, which will examine the use of large cargo and passenger-carrying heavy […]

Cargo and logistics

European Commission to support drone cargo airline Dronamics fleet, droneport network expansion

Drone cargo airline Dronamics has announced it has been awarded a EUR2.5 million grant by the European Commission under the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme. “The EIC has also expressed a material commitment to […]