EHang Holdings Limited announced that its flagship passenger-grade AAV EHang 216 and Falcon logistics model have completed Beyond Visual Line of Sight trial flights for airport transport and parcel delivery in Estonia under the European Union’s GOF 2.0 Integrated Urban Airspace Validation (“GOF 2.0”) project. Continue reading
Category Archives: Urban Air Mobility
MetroWeather Supports TruWeather Solutions’ NASA SBIR Contract
Metro Weather Co., Ltd. , a Kyoto-based company providing high-precision information on wind conditions using compact, high-performance Doppler Lidar*, and TruWeather Solutions, Inc., a micro weather data and analytics company, have announced a collaborative contract to support “Urban Weather Sensing Infrastructure”, TruWeather’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with NASA. Continue reading
Eve Urban Air Mobility Partners with Ascent to Bring UAM Operations to APAC
Eve Urban Air Mobility LLC, an Embraer company, and Ascent Flights Global Ltd. have announced a deepening of their partnership aimed at developing a robust Urban Air Mobility (UAM) ecosystem in the Asia Pacific region. Continue reading
Dufour Aerospace Aero3 Tilt-Wing eVTOL Flagship Aircraft
Dufour Aerospace published specification details on the Aero3, its flagship product. The Aero3 is a VTOL tilt-wing aircraft that will combine exceptional space, load and range for various transportation missions including most of today’s helicopter applications. This piloted, multi-purpose hybrid aircraft is a successor to the unmanned demonstrator aircraft test flown by Dufour Aerospace since 2020. Continue reading
Switzerland Launches First Nationwide Network Remote Identification Service For Drones
Swiss U-Space Implementation (SUSI) members, under the coordination of the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation,have announced that a nationwide voluntary Network Remote Identification (NET-RID) service is now live across Switzerland. The service complies with the U-Space Regulation (EU) 2021/664 adopted by the European Commission, which will be enforced beginning January 2023. Continue reading
EHang Releases Video of Yunfu Production Facility in Operation
EHang Holdings Limited announced the cancellation of the EHang Yunfu Investor Day due to the latest tightening COVID-19-related travel and group gathering restrictions by the local governmental authorities following the recent Delta variant outbreak in China. Continue reading
Lilium Announces $1 BN Strategic Alliance with Brazilian Airline Azul
Lilium GmbH has announced that it intends to enter into a $1 billion commercial deal and strategic alliance with leading Brazilian airline Azul S.A . It also announced the appointment of Gabrielle Toledano and Henri Courpron to the Board of Directors of Lilium N.V. upon completion of Lilium’s business combination with Qell Acquisition Corp. Continue reading
Hyundai Urban Air Mobility Division Partners with ANRA Technologies on AAM Operating Ecosystem
The Urban Air Mobility Division of Hyundai Motor Group announced a new partnership with ANRA Technologies – an international provider of end-to-end drone operations and traffic management solutions for unmanned system operators and airspace managers – to begin developing the operating environment for the advanced air mobility (AAM) industry. Continue reading