Air TaxiSouth Korea Plans to Launch Air Taxi Service by 2025. Will Hyundai Be Ready? South Korea plans to have a limited commercial urban air mobility service available by 2025 in an effort to reduce traffic congestion in major cities, according to the ministry of land, infrastructure…
Business & GA5G Deployment Important for Urban Air Mobility, Defense Communications, Wind River Says The deployment of 5G networks to enable rapid, high-bandwidth communications will be important for urban air mobility and defense, according to a new Wind River report, Solving 5G's Biggest Challenges for Communications…
Air TaxiWhat Will 5G Bring to the Aviation Industry? A range of new communications technologies are included up in the term ‘5G,’ including new radio access technology and antennas operating in the low, mid and high bands of the radiofrequency spectrum,…
Air TaxiEASA Releases Next Piece of Regulatory Guidance for Electric Air Taxis Following the publication of a Special Condition for hybrid-electric and electric VTOL aircraft last year, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) released some details on how manufacturers can reach compliance in…
Air TaxiArcher Aviation Officially Enters the Electric Air Taxi Race Another well-capitalized startup has officially entered the passenger air taxi arena. Archer Aviation, previously reported as a stealth company located in California, is indeed building electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft at…
Air TaxiAre Low-Altitude Weather Services Ready for Drones and Air Taxis? As the Federal Aviation Administration continues down its “crawl, walk, run” path of incorporating drone delivery, passenger air taxis and other unmanned aircraft applications into the national airspace, development of low-altitude weather…
Air TaxiSumitomo Acquires Stake in OneSky, Adding UTM to Japanese Air Mobility Mission Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Corporation has acquired a stake in OneSky Systems, a developer of unmanned traffic management (UTM) services and analytics, as part of its Series A fundraise. Sumitomo recently partnered with…
Air TaxiWill Hydrogen Fuel Cells Play a Role in the VTOL Revolution? Almost all players in the emerging urban air mobility industry have converged on the idea of using fully-electric aircraft, powered by lithium-ion batteries, to create affordable aerial transit options for relatively short…
Air TaxiThis Stealth Air Taxi Startup Is Driving Up the Cost of UAM Engineers A stealth-mode startup working on electric aircraft is luring engineering talent away from other urban air mobility (UAM) companies with higher salaries, sources within the industry told Avionics International. Santa Clara-based Archer…
Air TaxiVoom Ceases Operations (Mostly) Due to COVID-19, Airbus Declares Victory Airbus’ urban air mobility operations company, Voom, has ceased operating, CEO Clément Monnet said in a LinkedIn post, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as its cause of death, though he mentioned challenges associated…