CommercialSafran Wants to Get You Inside an Air Taxi, But Isn't Sure Whose Yet Safran designing cabins for Uber air taxis is a bit of an unusual arrangement because Uber Elevate is not in the business of manufacturing aircraft. It does afford some opportunities, though, according…
CommercialUber Adds Jaunt As Sixth eVTOL Vehicle Manufacturing Partner Uber Elevate has named Jaunt Air Mobility its sixth manufacturing partner for urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles. Joining Bell, Embraer-X, Boeing's Aurora Flight Sciences, Pipistrel Vertical Solutions and Karem Aircraft, Jaunt is…
UnmannedHoneywell and Denso Collaborate on Electric and Hybrid Powertrains for UAM Honeywell will partner with Japanese automotive manufacturer Denso to develop hybrid-electric and electric powertrains, with an emphasis on the growing urban air mobility (UAM) market, the two companies announced Monday. The companies…
CommercialFAA Approves Flight Testing of Amazon's New Fully Electric Delivery Drone Amazon plans to launch Prime Air delivery in the next few months, using a new electrically powered vertical-takeoff-and-landing drone design unveiled Wednesday. The company’s latest fully-electric drone design features six shrouded rotors…
UnmannedHow Volocopter's Two-Seater Wants to Overcome the Challenges Facing UAM Air taxi-maker Volocopter released a whitepaper on the challenges facing the urban air mobility (UAM) market in whcih CTO Jan-Hendrik Boelens finds that those concerns are largely well-addressed by the eponymous Volocopter…
CommercialHoneywell Shrinks Fly-By-Wire System for Air Taxi Market Honeywell is bringing its commercial aircraft fly-by-wire system to the urban air mobility (UAM) market, and the aerospace company is packaging it into a box the size of a book. "For UAM,…
CommercialWhy Automation Shouldn't Push Pilots Out of Air Taxis As it tries to take to the skies, the urban air mobility industry is at a crossroads. The ultimate goal is unmanned operations, freeing up more seats for paying passengers and eliminating…
CommercialIndustry Must Prove UAM Is Safe for Public Adoption Urban air mobility won't be widely accepted as part of the public's everyday life — something industry is counting on — unless a sterling safety record is a given. Two crashes grounded…
CommercialWhat Uber Is Looking For in a Cost-Effective Urban Transport Vehicle Despite Uber's notoriously ambitious schedule, Director of Aviation Engineering Mark Moore says the company does not need any miracles to get its urban air mobility (UAM) business off the ground — just…
CommercialCity Airbus eVTOL Prototype Makes First Flight in Germany City Airbus, the namesake company’s unmanned, ducted-fan-driven urban air taxi prototype, made its first flight May 3 in Donauwörth, Germany. Airbus Helicopters did not make a formal announcement of the milestone, but…