CommercialEXCLUSIVE: How Pipistrel's 801 Aims to Leave the Competition in its Wake Where most eVTOL vehicles are designed top out in the 140-150 mph range, Pipstrel's 801 aircraft concept will fly at better than 200 miles per hour. “If you have the opportunity to…
CommercialExperiencing Uber's Vision for Urban Air Mobility at Uber Elevate Take a ride with Uber Elevate, traveling 47 miles over congested roads in under 10 minutes total. Turn to your right, and you will see Oakland's Oracle Arena dropping away, the site…
CommercialUber Elevate: All the Highlights from UAM's Biggest Show Uber's third annual Elevate Summit has closed, and you can be forgiven for missing some of the announcements which hit downtown Washington fast and hard. Luckily, Avionics is here to round them…
ATM ModernizationNine of Uber's Favorite Skyport Concepts Uber has announced eight architecture firms to design future skyports for its first three cities, and, at its third annual Elevate Summit, the companies showcased leading concepts. "This year, we invited innovative…
CommercialHow Batteries Will Power the Next Evolution of Aviation To certify battery packs for use in electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicles, companies need data. But, how do you test something that isn't yet happening? Painstakingly, it turns out. The first step is…
CommercialSafran Wants to Get You Inside an Air Taxi, But Isn't Sure Whose Yet Safran designing cabins for Uber air taxis is a bit of an unusual arrangement because Uber Elevate is not in the business of manufacturing aircraft. It does afford some opportunities, though, according…
CommercialUber Adds Jaunt As Sixth eVTOL Vehicle Manufacturing Partner Uber Elevate has named Jaunt Air Mobility its sixth manufacturing partner for urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles. Joining Bell, Embraer-X, Boeing's Aurora Flight Sciences, Pipistrel Vertical Solutions and Karem Aircraft, Jaunt is…
UnmannedHow Volocopter's Two-Seater Wants to Overcome the Challenges Facing UAM Air taxi-maker Volocopter released a whitepaper on the challenges facing the urban air mobility (UAM) market in whcih CTO Jan-Hendrik Boelens finds that those concerns are largely well-addressed by the eponymous Volocopter…
CommercialHoneywell Shrinks Fly-By-Wire System for Air Taxi Market Honeywell is bringing its commercial aircraft fly-by-wire system to the urban air mobility (UAM) market, and the aerospace company is packaging it into a box the size of a book. "For UAM,…
ATM ModernizationFlight Plan 2030: Embraer-X Envisions Entirely New Group to Oversee UAM Operations Embraer has released a 48-page whitepaper on urban air traffic management, examining future infrastructure for air taxis. The report, called Flight Plan 2030, was published by the company's urban air mobility…