Air TaxiUber Elevate Adds Hidden Level as Sensor, Airspace Awareness Partner Uber Elevate added sensor and data processing company Hidden Level to its ecosystem to further its development of safe, reliable low-altitude operations in the national airspace. Through the non-exclusive partnership, Uber intends…
IIOTEASA Proposes Risk-Based Airworthiness Standards for Light Unmanned Aircraft The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) released a proposed special condition for certifying unmanned aircraft intended for use in medium- and high-risk applications, such as drone delivery flights over populated areas.…
Editor's NoteUnderstanding Competencies of Machine Learning Systems and Building Human-AI Trust Greater incorporation of autonomy into aerospace will require more understanding of how autonomous systems function, both for certification and for effective partnership between these systems and their human users. Machine learning, commonly…
Air TaxiFive Companies and NUAIR Begin Work on UTM Contingency Management A team of companies received $1.6 million from the Federal Aviation Administration to build and test their Contingency Management Platform at the New York Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Test Site at Griffiss…
Air TaxiBreaking Down the FAA’s V1.0 ConOps for Urban Air Mobility The Federal Aviation Administration’s NextGen office recently published its V1.0 Concept of Operations for urban air mobility, developed in collaboration with NASA and industry. The document, an initial communication after discussions with…
ATM ModernizationFAA Partners with Swiss Authority to Advance, Harmonize Drone Integration Efforts The Federal Aviation Administration signed an agreement to work with the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) on standards surrounding the safe use and integration of unmanned aircraft into civilian airspace,…
Air TaxiTalking UTM and UAM With Robert Hammett, CEO of OneSky Systems As interested parties across the drone and air taxi space eagerly await the widespread implementation of unmanned traffic management (UTM) and related enabling technologies such as remote ID, Robert Hammett, CEO of…
Air TaxiWill Wisk’s Straight-to-Autonomous Air Taxi Strategy Pay Off? July 1 marked the one-year anniversary of Wisk, an urban air mobility company formed as a joint venture between Boeing and Kitty Hawk, though it wasn’t revealed to the public until last…
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