Air TaxiHoneywell Showcases Enabling Technologies in Development for Urban Air Mobility While some companies are investing in creating urban air mobility (UAM) aircraft, Honeywell is looking towards technologies like radar, fuel cells, and flight simulators to mitigate gating factors to the industry. Honeywell…
CommercialNew All-Electric eFlyer Aircraft from Bye Aerospace Bye Aerospace announced the eFlyer 800, an all-electric twin turbo-prop class airplane that will be able to seat eight people, according to an April 22 announcement. George Bye, Bye Aerospace CEO, said…
AI & AutonomyNASA’s Mars Helicopter Completes Second Flight Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars helicopter, completed a second flight on the red planet on April 22 with new challenges including a higher maximum altitude, longer flight duration, and added sideways movement, according to…
AI & AutonomyNASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Achieves Historic First Flight on Mars NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter made history on April 19 completing the first powered flight on Mars, according to an announcement from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) who confirmed the flight at 6:46…
Air TaxiWhy the Lilium 7-Seater Design Architecture Favors Cruise Flight Over VTOL Capabilities When designing an aircraft for the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) industry one would think most of the aircraft architecture would focus on vertical lift capabilities. However, German aircraft maker Lilium’s…
UnmannedWill the Mars Helicopter Persevere? The Mars helicopter Ingenuity encountered a problem during a high-speed spin-up test of its rotors on April 9 delaying its planned first flight demonstration. NASA has found a solution to this problem…
UnmannedAll Nippon Airways Partners with Wingcopter to Bring Drone Delivery to Japan ANA HOLDINGS INC. (ANA HD), the parent company of All Nippon Airways, and Wingcopter have formed a new partnership to build a drone delivery network for pharmaceuticals and other consumer goods in…
Air TaxiBETA Expands into Passenger Market with Blade Deal Blade Urban Air Mobility is purchasing up to 20 BETA Technologies’ ALIA electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft marking BETA’s first passenger service customer, according to an April 13 release. "Blade…