CommercialBoeing’s eVTOL Air Taxi Prototype Achieves First Flight Boeing has completed the first flight of its passenger air vehicle prototype Tuesday, Jan. 22, taking a crucial first step toward fielding a electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. During the…
CommercialAircraft Manufacturers Must Jump In or be Left Out of Air Taxi Revolution, Says Airbus Exec New companies such as Uber and Lyft will soon be making their own vehicles, and manufacturers such as Airbus and Boeing need to beat them to the punch by offering competing services…
CommercialIndustry Talks EVTOL With European Regulators Thirty corporate officials from eight countries met with European regulators this week in Cologne and Brussels to discuss the needs of the burgeoning electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (EVTOL) sector, according to the General Aviation…
CommercialBell Taps Thales to Provide On-Demand VTOL Flight Controls Thales will develop flight control systems for Bell's vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft, the two companies said Tuesday. Bell has said the aircraft, which is to be used for on-demand urban mobility in partnership…
CommercialVolocopter to Flight Test Electric Air Taxi in Singapore Volocopter will validate the ability of its electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (EVTOL) air taxi to operate within Singapore’s inner city environment in 2019. German startup company Volocopter’s fully electric VTOL aircraft is powered by 18…
CommercialRolls-Royce Ready to Electrify M250 for Future EVTOL At the 2018 Farnborough International Air Show, Rolls-Royce unveiled a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft capable of flying at 250 mph with a range of 500 miles. With the right…
CommercialMaking Bell's Air Taxi Go: An Engineer's Perspective Kyle Heironimus is the electric propulsion development lead for Bell’s air taxi — part of the innovation team in charge of exploring new technology. As a partner for Uber Elevate, who is…
CommercialUber's Plan to Take Ridesharing to the Skies With Uber’s second annual Elevate Summit came big promises. The ridesharing giant’s plan for a network of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft to ease frustrating ground traffic in urban areas was unheard of…
CommercialElectric Air Taxi by Embraer? First Concept Unveiled at Uber Elevate Embraer subsidiary Embraer X unveiled its first electrical Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft concept at Uber Elevate in Los Angeles. "We have excelled in our near-50-year journey by introducing innovations into…