Air TaxiAgility Prime Awards New Contract to Software Company Tangram Flex Tangram Flex, an Ohio software company, has been awarded a new Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract with the Air Force’s Agility Prime program that will be focusing on advancing the safety…
Air TaxiAir Force Could Be Using Air Taxis in 2023 The U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program has been investing in the development of electric air taxis and could have one of these aircraft in use by 2023, Col. Nathan Diller, AFWERX…
Air TaxiAgility Prime Invests $1.5M in eSTOL Aircraft from Electra The Agility Prime program from the U.S. Air Force has invested in multiple electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and now it is investing in a new type of flying car,…
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 TaxiAgility Prime Researches Electronic Parachute Powered by Machine Learning The Air Force’s Agility Prime program awarded a phase I small business technology transfer (STTR) research contract to Jump Aero and Caltech to create an electronic parachute powered by machine learning that…
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…
UnmannedAir Force Looks to Hybrid Electric Solution for eVTOL and UAS Energy Concerns The Air Force is investing in LiquidPiston’s X-Engine technology to create a hybrid-electric propulsion system to power emerging technologies like unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and orbs, the company announced on March 4. …
Air TaxiAgility Prime to Study the Use of Radar Developed for Cars in eVTOLs The U.S. Air Force awarded a contract to study a radar sensing solution, the SPEKTRA radar, used by the automotive industry to see if it can be modified for electric vertical take-off…