August 2026

The August edi­tion reflects a par­tic­u­lar­ly sig­nif­i­cant peri­od for the sec­tor, with July bring­ing major progress across cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, flight test­ing, com­mer­cial part­ner­ships and infra­struc­ture, cul­mi­nat­ing in a high­ly suc­cess­ful Farn­bor­ough Inter­na­tion­al Air­show.

Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty fea­tured promi­nent­ly at Farn­bor­ough, with Ver­ti­cal Aero­space com­plet­ing a his­toric pub­lic tran­si­tion flight, BETA Tech­nolo­gies demon­strat­ing its ALIA air­craft, and Joby Avi­a­tion and Vir­gin Atlantic show­cas­ing plans to intro­duce elec­tric air taxi ser­vices in the UK.

The mag­a­zine also explores the grow­ing con­ver­gence between com­mer­cial and defence appli­ca­tions, includ­ing Archer Avi­a­tion’s unveil­ing of its Halo com­mer­cial air­craft, devel­oped along­side Anduril’s Thun­der defence vari­ant.

Beyond the major devel­op­ments at Farn­bor­ough, the August edi­tion exam­ines how the indus­try is increas­ing­ly shift­ing its atten­tion from air­craft devel­op­ment towards the prac­ti­cal require­ments of com­mer­cial oper­a­tions.

The pub­li­ca­tion also released its first exclu­sive CEO Fea­ture, which focus­es on Michal Illich, founder and CEO of Zuri and explores the com­pa­ny’s deci­sion to take a dif­fer­ent approach to many of its AAM com­peti­tors.

Under the head­line “Build­ing Zuri With­out Fol­low­ing the Crowd”, Illich dis­cuss­es Zuri’s deci­sion to pur­sue hybrid pow­er, a con­ven­tion­al wing and ver­ti­cal take-off, as well as the com­pa­ny’s focus on val­i­dat­ing its tech­nol­o­gy through incre­men­tal flight test­ing.

The fea­ture explores Zuri’s strat­e­gy of pur­su­ing uncrewed car­go oper­a­tions as an ini­tial com­mer­cial appli­ca­tion, with Illich argu­ing that car­go could pro­vide a faster and more com­mer­cial­ly viable route towards the com­pa­ny’s longer-term pas­sen­ger ambi­tions.

The August edi­tion also looks ahead to eVTOL Insights’ Europe Con­fer­ence, tak­ing place in Toulouse in Octo­ber. French hybrid-elec­tric avi­a­tion com­pa­ny Ascen­dance has been announced as the host, with del­e­gates invit­ed to an exclu­sive behind-the-scenes tour of its facil­i­ties and the oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn more about its ATEA air­craft and STERNA propul­sion sys­tem.

The August 2026 Dig­i­tal Mag­a­zine is avail­able to down­load here.