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For the past year, ANRA Technologies has been conducting tests supporting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Airspace Management Demonstration (UAMD) project that recently culminated with live flights in California. Continue reading
Archer Aviation Inc., San Jose, California, was awarded an $110,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Midnight Based Advanced Vertical Lift. Continue reading
Australia’s aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority today released guidelines for vertiport design following extensive community and industry consultation. Continue reading
Archer Aviation hosted the Federal AAM Interagency Working Group at its flight test facility recently. As part of the visit, the attendees witnessed a live flight test, viewed Archer’s Midnight aircraft and learned more about Archer’s approach to aircraft design, safety and certification. Continue reading
AutoFlight, a supplier of Advanced Air Mobility solutions, and Groupe ADP, the Paris-based airport operator, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to experiment electric take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOLs) ‘Prosperity I’ from Pontoise Vertiport during the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. Continue reading
Technology company Whisper Aero has unveiled its Whisper Jet concept as part of a larger reveal of the applications of their ultra-quiet ducted fan technology that is currently under development. Whisper Aero’s tech employs a ducted fan with a large number of propellers turning at much slower speeds than conventional designs to achieve its claimed industry-leading quiet noise footprint. Continue reading
Eve Air Mobility and United Airlines have announced plans to bring Urban Air Mobility (UAM) to San Francisco by launching electric commuter flights throughout the Bay Area. Continue reading
Supernal and Inmarsat announced a partnership to define the application of satellite connectivity in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). Together, the companies will conduct testing and data sharing to optimise hardware and network systems, which will lead to the safe and efficient integration of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles into the airspace. Continue reading