CommercialPODCAST: How Swiss Airlines' Digital Twin Improves Maintenance Operations On this episode, we interview Marcus Di Laurenzio on how Swiss Airlines is using Aviatar, a platform developed by Lufthansa Technik, to digitally monitor the health of its aircraft and manage maintenance…
Air TaxiChinese eVTOL-maker EHang Files for $100M Nasdaq IPO Chinese autonomous vehicle maker EHang, one of the companies at the forefront of the push for urban air mobility (UAM), has filed for a $100 million initial public offering (IPO) on the…
Air TaxiVolocopter Showcases Unmanned Utility Drone, ‘VoloPort’ Infrastructure It's been a busy year for German air taxi developer Volocopter, which continues to be at the forefront of the urban air mobility race. The developer recently announced its VoloDrone, a utility…
Air TaxiUber Takes a Different Approach to Food Delivery By Drone Uber released its latest design for a food delivery drone that will contribute to — rather than replace — their existing driver-focused delivery service. Equipped with six electric motors along two “wings”…
Air TaxiUS Air Force Hopes to Leverage Commercial Progress on ‘Air Taxi’ Vehicles DAYTON, Ohio — At the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) on Wright-Patterson AFB, the service has begun preliminary research into how it can harness commercial efforts on urban air taxis to increase…
Air TaxiJaunt Partners with Triumph to Develop, Certify and Mass-Produce Air Taxi LAS VEGAS – Air taxi developer Jaunt Air Mobility entered into a service agreement with Triumph Group to provide engineering and manufacturing services for its electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, formalizing…
RegulationFAA’s Drone Advisory Committee Makes Recommendations on Remote ID, Security WASHINGTON, D.C. — Members of the FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) unanimously approved recommendations for the agency to consider regarding remote identification and UAS security issues, which were highlighted by a recent…
ConnectivityPODCAST: NSR’s Guide to Satellite Connectivity Drawing from one of the most insightful presentations from GCAS 2019, in this episode Chris Baugh and Brad Grady, respectively president and principal analyst at Northern Sky Research (NSR) — one of…