UTM

By Philip Butterworth-Hayes* It seems somehow strange that in most of the world the only responsibility that local authorities have for managing drone and urban air mobility (UAM) operations above their cities is to have […]

The SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) has signed off in the last week a new portfolio of very large-scale demonstrations aimed at making aviation smarter and more sustainable, and paving the way for urban air mobility […]

Researchers at Mercatus, part of the George Mason University in the USA, believe a federal-state agreement to create aerial corridors directly above public roads, creating ‘drone highways, would help to bring clarity about federal and […]

Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK will host a series of large-scale live demonstrations on urban air mobility, as part of CORUS-XUAM – a freshly launched project within the framework of the […]

The Airspace of the Future (AoF) consortium is made up of nine UK organisations – Altitude Angel, Thales, Cranfield University, Cranfield Airport Operations, Inmarsat, Ocado Group, Blue Bear, Satellite Applications Catapult, and Connected Places Catapult. […]

Munich-based Urban Air Mobility (UAM) start-up D3 Technologies has announced the completion of its seed II funding round. Mobility players such as Vector Venture Capital GmbH as lead investor, SEK Ventures GmbH (founders of Flixbus), […]

U.S. Connecticut-based company, Aquiline Drones, is set to initiate a new Drone-on-Demand (DOD) mobile app to match-make drone operators with clients, reports dronelife.com. Aquiline founder and CEO, Barry Alexander, commented, “Many individuals, businesses, law enforcement […]

A new co-operation between Altitude Angel (AA) and Sky-Drones (SD) offers a FREE AA UTM seven-day trial via its cloud software, reports a SD company website. Sky-Drones is an international software and hardware manufacturing company. […]

Helicopter manufacturer Leonardo and air navigation service provider ENAV have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) in Italy primarily aimed at modernising and making safer, efficient and sustainable the use of helicopters and airspace leveraging […]

Goodwood is best known around the world for ‘glorious’ horse racing and vintage sports car races, but the lesser-known aerodrome is now in the limelight for hosting the first UK flight trials to combine unmanned […]