Air TaxiLilium Reportedly Seeks to Raise Half a Billion to Certify Regional Electric Jet The Munich, Germany-based air taxi developer Lilium is reportedly seeking to raise between $400 and $500 million, according to TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden. This would mark a step increase in the amount of…
Air TaxiWith Urban Air Mobility Coming into Focus, Two Companies Present Alternative Visions As a number of companies including Boeing, Bell Flight, Volocopter and Sabrewing (among others) are developing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for various cargo delivery and passenger carrying missions, two…
Unmanned‘Detecting’ the Path to BVLOS Operations for Commercial Drones in US Airspace The full commercial potential of drones in civilian airspace in the United States is, for the moment, locked, as drones are unable to fly beyond their operator’s visual line of sight (BVLOS),…
Air TaxiKitty Hawk Reveals Ultra-Quiet ‘Heaviside’ eVTOL Design The secretive electric aircraft company Kitty Hawk, backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, revealed its third electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) design: a small, quiet aircraft with eight tilting propellers called…
Air TaxiThe Winner of 'Pitch@Revolution.Aero': Ballistic Parachutes for VTOL Aircraft At a “shark tank”-style aerospace pitch competition during Revolution.Aero last week, Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) won both the audience and judges’ vote for their patent-pending parachute system that slows the descent of…
Air TaxiOn a Mission for Airbus, Voom Enters the U.S. On-Demand Helicopter Market The battle for market share in urban air mobility (UAM) is ramping up as Airbus’ on-demand helicopter service, Voom, launches operations in the United States, beginning with five destinations in the San…
Air TaxiHyundai Creates Urban Air Mobility Division, Hires Longtime NASA Engineer Hyundai Motor Group has created an Urban Air Mobility (UAM) division and hired longtime NASA aeronautics director Dr. Jaiwon Shin to lead it at the executive vice president level. Hyundai is the…
RegulationUPS Granted Scalable Part 135 Approval for Drone Delivery Nationwide UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward has attained the first Part 135 Standard certification from the FAA to operate a drone airline, which it intends to use to scale its medical drone delivery…
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