Author: Thomas Sleightholm

Avi­a­tion infra­struc­ture tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny LYNEports has launched the full ver­sion of its plan­ning soft­ware, bring­ing tools for air­ports, heli­ports, ver­ti­ports,

Amprius Tech­nolo­gies has intro­duced a sil­i­­con-anode bat­tery cell capa­ble of reach­ing 500 Wh/kg at a 1C con­tin­u­ous dis­charge rate, with

Archer Avi­a­tion has launched a nation­wide flight-test­ing ini­tia­tive aimed at demon­strat­ing its Mid­night elec­tric air taxi on city-to-city routes as

Sky­ports Infra­struc­ture has signed an agree­ment with the Oita Pre­fec­tur­al Gov­ern­ment in Japan to help assess the infra­struc­ture and routes

Elroy Air has com­plet­ed a series of autonomous, uncrewed flights under the U.S. Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion and Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Administration’s

Piv­otal has appoint­ed Mike Ross as inter­im chief exec­u­tive offi­cer fol­low­ing the depar­ture of Ken Karklin, who led the light

REGENT Craft has com­plet­ed the first human-crewed flight of its Viceroy Seaglid­er pro­to­type, mark­ing a step for­ward in the devel­op­ment

Bar­racu­da Net­works has been named an offi­cial part­ner of Air­speed­er Team Aus­tralia for the inau­gur­al Air­speed­er Inter­na­tion­al Series, an elec­tric

Ama­zon plans to expand its Prime Air drone deliv­ery ser­vice to near­ly 500 US cities and towns by the end

Hori­zon Air­craft has begun test­ing ice pro­tec­tion tech­nol­o­gy for its Cavorite X7 hybrid-elec­tric VTOL air­craft as it works toward an

EHang’s pilot­less EH216‑S eVTOL air­craft has com­plet­ed its first pub­lic flight in Hong Kong, as the city con­tin­ues test­ing low-alti­­tude

The City of Helsin­ki, Haa­­ga-Helia Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences and avi­a­tion com­pa­ny Elec­tra have signed a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing to

REGENT Craft has raised $240 mil­lion in a Series B fund­ing round as the Rhode Island-based com­pa­ny pre­pares to move

Wisk Aero has begun con­struc­tion of a new ver­ti­port at Hol­lis­ter Munic­i­pal Air­port in Cal­i­for­nia, cre­at­ing a ded­i­cat­ed test site

Ondas has opened a new train­ing, test­ing and flight oper­a­tions facil­i­ty at the Nation­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Cen­ter of Excel­lence

Sky­Drive, Air India and Suzu­ki Motor Cor­po­ra­tion are set to eval­u­ate poten­tial routes for eVTOL-based med­ical logis­tics in India, focus­ing

L2 Avi­a­tion and UK-based Gotono­mi have formed a part­ner­ship aimed at extend­ing reli­able com­mu­ni­ca­tions for uncrewed aer­i­al vehi­cles (UAVs) and

Archer Avi­a­tion and AEG are plan­ning to devel­op a ver­ti­port at L.A. LIVE in down­town Los Ange­les, adding a cen­tral

NASA has select­ed four uni­ver­si­ty teams to con­duct research into areas includ­ing super­son­ic propul­sion, AI-enabled avion­ics, urban air mobil­i­ty and

EHang is part­ner­ing with Chi­na Con­struc­tion Sixth Engi­neer­ing Bureau to devel­op low-alti­­tude avi­a­tion infra­struc­ture in Chi­na, with a cross-sea cor­ri­dor

Whis­per Aero has com­plet­ed the first pilot­ed flights of its eQ250 elec­tric duc­t­ed-fan propul­sion sys­tem aboard a mod­i­fied Swift 3

EHang has launched a new pro­gram aimed at speed­ing up the intro­duc­tion of its pilot­less elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing

Elroy Air has been award­ed a $46 mil­lion, mul­ti-year con­tract by the U.S. Army to devel­op an autonomous hybrid-elec­tric ver­ti­cal

The U.S. Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) has con­duct­ed a series of hybrid-elec­tric air­craft demon­stra­tion flights aimed at test­ing con­nec­tions between