While the U.S. Air Force awarded Concord, Calif.-based drone maker, Volansi a contract last December to participate in the service’s prototype effort for the Skyborg low-cost attritable demonstrator–a project worth up to […]
The UK government is funding an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) airport to be used by drones and air taxis. The Urban Air Port Air-One ‘pop up’ airport will […]
Over the last year, despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on every segment of the aviation industry, many companies and government agencies have continued to invest in funding large-scale […]
If the military were to conduct a mission in response to a hurricane on an island nation, it has to consider the logistics of what equipment it can bring with […]
While Uber Elevate’s acquisition by Joby Aviation and Joby’s subsequent military airworthiness approval dominated aviation industry and mainstream technology headlines last week, three other companies developing electric and hybrid-electric aircraft–Ampaire, […]
The aerospace industry is not short on innovation, however, turning a small startup into a breakthrough company in an industry this large and diverse is challenging. Francois Chopard, CEO of […]
Pegasus Universal Aerospace is advancing development of its next-generation vertical takeoff and landing business jet at its Johannesburg-based South Africa facility, where the company’s founders hope to disrupt the global […]
D3 Technologies wants to fill a gap in the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) space: air traffic management. Using ground modules, avionics, transceivers, and sensor suites, the D3 Air Vehicle Control […]
By selecting Microsoft Azure as its core digital urban air mobility (UAM) operations cloud computing infrastructure, Volocopter has given its new VoloIQ platform the ability to establish low altitude electric […]
Advocates for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft are looking towards emergency response as an early use case for this new technology to help build public acceptance as a […]