Air taxis and personal transports

EHang Holdings Limited has announced its intention to build the world’s first autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) hub (or “E-port” in the City of Hezhou in Guangxi Province, China, to be completed and operational by  around […]

Auvsi.org reports that to address traffic congestion, NASA has awarded an interdisciplinary team led by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (North Carolina A&T) a four-year, USD8 million award to develop, test and eventually deploy […]

According to Robb Report, Quantum Air plans to launch the world’s first commercial electric urban air mobility (UAM) network next year in Los Angeles with a fleet of Bye Aerospace’s eFlyers. The electric airplanes are labelled […]

In a corner of ‘Burlington International Airport’ resides a structure with a sleek wood-lined lounge, two cozy bedrooms, and a view from its front porch of Vermont Air National Guard F-35 fighter jets rocketing down […]

The US National Transportation Safety Board has issued a report into the heavy landing of a Kitty Hawk Corporation Heaviside 2 unmanned aircraft system on October 17, 2017, which severely damaged the aircraft but caused […]

Lilium, the Munich-based aviation company developing an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing aircraft for air mobility, has announced the completion of internal funding worth more than $240m. According to Reuters, this most recent round was […]

A new video from Volocopter outlines its “voloCHRIS” concept for autonomous air taxi operations, developed with the support of the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Volocopter have been setting the standard for […]

According to eVTOL.com , the Israeli aircraft developer, Urban Aeronautics (UA), is teaming up with Singapore-based company, Ascent, to accelerate the commercialisation of the CityHawk, a hydrogen/electric VTOL aircraft for urban air mobility missions. The […]

A US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) aviation accident report published on 13 March 2020 into the crash of an Aurora Flight Sciences Pegasus Passenger Air Vehicle (PAV) unmanned aircraft system, N83AU in April 2019 […]

This week Chinese drone manufacturer EHang signed a cooperation agreement with the municipality of Llíria (Valencia – Spain) for the development of a test & certification centre in Southern Europe. This initiative paves the way for […]