Air TaxiAdvanced Air Mobility Center in Ohio Will Enable Collaboration between USAF, NASA, Academia, and Industry Construction of a facility for development of advanced air mobility projects began last month in Springfield, Ohio. The National Advanced Air Mobility Center of Excellence, or NAAMCE, is funded by $9.35 million…
Air Taxi11 Companies Are Developing High-Speed VTOL Concepts for U.S. Air Force Research Grants The U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX program initiated a market research program last year to encourage development of a high-speed vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The AFWERX challenge accepted submissions from more…
MilitaryUS Air Force Picks LIFT Airborne Technologies’ Helmet for Fixed Wing Aircraft The U.S. Air Force has picked California-based LIFT Airborne Technologies‘ AV 2.2 helmet to serve as the Next Generation Fixed Wing helmet. LIFT Technologies’ offering was competing in the prototype phase against two…
Air TaxiUSAF Pilots Conduct First-Ever Crewed eVTOL Flight with BETA Aircraft On March 9, 2022, two U.S. Air Force pilots became the first Airmen to fly an electric aircraft with military airworthiness approval—the ALIA, an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, developed…
MilitaryU.S. Air Force Makes New AFWERX Investment in Boom Supersonic Airliner Research Boom Supersonic, the Denver, Colorado-based aerospace company developing a supersonic airliner capable of flying at Mach 1.7, announced a new contract award from the U.S. Air Force on Tuesday valued at up…
Air TaxiAgility Prime Completes First eVTOL Operational Exercise The AFWERX Agility Prime program has been investing in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft with the hope of bringing advancements to the industry and providing possible new forms of transport…
Air TaxiBETA’s eVTOL Receives First Air Force Airworthiness Approval for Human Flight in Electric Aircraft After a year of testing BETA Technologies electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, ALIA, has received the first airworthiness approval for manned flight in an electric aircraft from the U.S. Air…
Air TaxiAFWERX Invests in Nap of the Earth Flight with Vy 400 VTOL AFWERX is working with Transcend Air through a new contract that will explore “nap of the Earth” flight, whose flights require the aircraft to fly low and follow the contours of terrain…
Air TaxiAir Force Completes First Military Transport of eVTOL Aircraft Inside C-130 The U.S. Air Force transported an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from Springfield, Ohio to Austin, Texas on March 23 and 24 inside an HC-130J Combat King II as a…
MilitaryFormer Air Force Acquisition Secretary Will Roper Joins Volansi Will Roper, the former assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology, and logistics, is joining drone maker Volansi’s board of directors, the company announced on March 3. Roper will assist…