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

AutoFlight and Dassault Systèmes to partner on eVTOL product development and research

In a Linkedin post China’s eVTOL manufacturer AutoFlight has announced it has signed a strategic cooperative agreement with France’s Dassault Systèmes. “The two parties will build a collaborative R&D platform covering the entire process of […]

Cargo and logistics

Merlin starts flight test campaign of its automated Merlin Pilot Cessna Caravan platform

Merlin, a developer of autonomous flight technology for fixed-wing aircraft, today announced it successfully began the flight test campaign of its certification-ready Cessna Caravan aircraft equipped with the Merlin Pilot. This campaign aims to prove the safety […]

Fixed wing low/zero emissions

ZeroAvia receives USD4.2 million in funding from FAA for electric propulsion research

ZeroAvia has announced that it has been awarded USD4.2 million in US federal funding through the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Fueling Aviation’s Sustainable Transition discretionary grant program for Low-Emission Aviation Technology (FAST Tech). The grant will […]

Research

FI 2024: UK’s Cranfield University joins pan-European team researching solid oxide fuel cells

The UK’s Cranfield University is the only UK university involved in FlyECO, a EUR4 million pan-European project to develop sustainable aviation solutions through the close integration of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) and hydrogen-powered electrified […]