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 to Handle Navigation for Volocopter eVTOL Honeywell and Volocopter will jointly test and develop navigation and automated landing systems for Volocopter's electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the two companies announced April 8. The solutions will build…
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…