Air TaxiNASA Signs 17 Space Act Agreements for Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge Seventeen companies have signed Space Act Agreements with NASA to participate in the agency’s first Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge, a series of technology demonstrations meant to test the readiness of vehicles…
Air TaxiAt Ohio Air Taxi Symposium, Policy Seen as Far Behind Technology COLUMBUS, Ohio — Home to a number of leading aerospace research centers and suppliers, Ohio is taking steps to ensure it will be on the leading edge of the low-altitude urban air…
Air TaxiBritish Columbia Enacts Tax Exemption for Electric Aircraft Electric aircraft purchased in the Canadian province of British Columbia are now exempt from provincial sales taxes (PST), an incentive created by the government as part of its ‘CleanBC’ initiative to lower…
Air TaxiAir Force to Begin Fly-Off, Certification Campaign for eVTOL Aircraft The U.S. Air Force is expanding its engagement with transformative VTOL aircraft developers, seeking to analyze, certify and eventually procure electric and hybrid-electric aircraft that are currently under development primarily for commercial…
Air TaxiTalking UTM with Amit Ganjoo, Founder of ANRA Technologies TYSON’S CORNER, Va. — As regulators, air navigation service providers and private companies continue work toward integrating unmanned traffic into the global airspace, Avionics International visited the offices of ANRA Technologies, a…
Air TaxiAir Taxis in Asia: Bell, Airbus Form Partnerships on Urban Air Mobility Bell and Airbus have each signed agreements with local partners in Asia to bring urban air mobility to life, with Bell focused on Japan and Airbus continuing past cooperation with Singapore's civil…
Air TaxiNASA Aeronautics Budget Sees 4.5 Percent Boost, Funding Future Aviation Research NASA might see a 12 percent increase in its budget per the White House’s request for fiscal year 2021, mostly for a push to return humans to the moon by 2024 —…
RegulationFAA Exploring How Manned Aviation Can Benefit from Drone Remote ID The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is planning to ask industry how manned aviation can interact with remote identification signals emitted by drones as part of its roadmap to integrating unmanned aircraft into…