Air taxis and personal transports

Lilium, the Munich-based startup developing an on- demand air taxi service, today revealed its new five-seater air taxi prototype for the first time. The unveiling of the new Lilium Jet came as the all-electric aircraft […]

Helicopter Investor reports that autonomous eVTOL manufacturer Astro Aerospace has been selected as NASA’s newest urban air mobility partner. “Astro will join more than 400 other private and public companies in NASA’s Urban Air Mobility […]

Air taxi and flying car parachute manufacturer Aviation Safety Resources has announced today it is expanding and moving its corporate headquarters to Stanford, Kentucky, USA. It will open a new 12,000 square-foot manufacturing and assembly […]

The Uber Elevate Summit convenes leaders from across academia, industry, government, policy, and technology for a two-day immersive event on June 11 – 12, 2019, at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. Featured speakers […]

Aerospace Testing International reports that Russian startup Bartini and engineers from Russia’s National University of Science and Technology Misis in Moscow have successfully flight tested a prototype urban air taxi. “The 5 x 5m (16 […]

Singapore’s Straits Times reports that Neo Aerospace has unveiled a one-seater flying vehicle that it hopes could be used for door-to-door transportation in urban areas when it is launched in the USA. The Crimson S8, […]

Social media reports today say that Airbus and its partner Siemens have made the first, tethered flight of the 2.2 tonne electrically powered urban air mobility demonstrator, CityAirbus. The first flight was made at the […]

At Aero Friedrichshafen 2019 German start-up AutoFlightX unveiled its V600 all-electric technical demonstrator – a prototype to a new, larger range of air taxi and air cargo platforms. The V600 is a two-seat aircraft driven […]

Norway’s OSM Aviation, a provider of air crew for the international airline industry, has announced today that it has placed an order for 60 all-electric planes from Colorado- based aircraft manufacturer Bye Aerospace. These will […]

Honeywell and Volocopter have signed an agreement to jointly test and develop new navigation and automatic landing systems for Volocopter’s vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Honeywell’s autonomous sensing and flight technologies, including inertial measurement units, attitude heading […]