Air taxis and personal transports

Wisk, Skygrid and FAA William J Hughes centre to research remotely piloted eVTOL NAS integration

Wisk Aero has announced in a Linkedin post at it is partnering with the US Federal Aviation Administration’s William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace to research safely integrating remotely supervised AAM operations in […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Eve Air Mobility announces a USD50 million Citibank loan to fund research and development

Eve Air Mobility has announced a USD 50 million loan from Citibank N.A. to support the company’s aircraft research and development programme. According to the company: “With this additional loan, Eve’s 2Q24 pro-forma liquidity increases […]

Air taxis and personal transports

EHang and Civil Aviation Flight University of China partner on eVTOL operations training and licensing

EHang Holdings Limited today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with the Civil Aviation Flight University of China (CAFUC). “Building upon the CAFUC’s extensive expertise in civil aviation education, research, and talent development, […]

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 […]

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 […]