Air taxis and personal transports

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 […]

A new study from Ford and the University of Michigan of the environmental sustainability impacts of flying cars suggests that they wouldn’t be suitable for a Jetsons-style short commute. However, vertical take off aircraft (VTOLs)—which […]

Austria’s FACC and China’s EHang Air Mobility Group will take their air taxi to series production in Austria by 2020. According to EHang: At the 4GAMECHANGERS Festival, visitors will experience a European premiere: the first […]

Airbus A3, the company’s Silicon Valley innovation centre, has launched a programme to develop autonomy control systems to be integrated into the company’s range of urban air mobility platforms and large commercial aircraft. According to […]

Sumitomo Corporation has announced its alliance with Bell, a Fort Worth, Texas-based company known as the premier provider of vertical lift aircraft and one of the leading companies in the up-and-coming air mobility industry. Together, […]