Author: Thomas Sleightholm

Chi­nese man­u­fac­tur­er Aut­oFlight says it has com­plet­ed what it describes as the world’s first for­ma­tion flight involv­ing five elec­tric ver­ti­cal

Air­speed­er has named the final two pilots for its five-team Inter­na­tion­al Series, com­plet­ing the ini­tial line-up ahead of the com­pe­ti­tion’s

Future Flight Glob­al (FFG) has signed a deposit-backed bind­ing term sheet with BETA Tech­nolo­gies for 10 firm orders of the

Elec­tra and Ver­ti­Ports by Atlantic have signed a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing to assess infra­struc­ture options for the oper­a­tion of Electra’s

Hori­zon Air­craft has signed a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing (MOU) with Con­stance Lake First Nation in North­ern Ontario to explore the

BETA Tech­nolo­gies report­ed record quar­ter­ly rev­enue of $17.7 mil­lion for the third quar­ter of 2026, up 98% year on year,

Galaxy 1 Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Viasat have agreed to move their joint­ly devel­oped sup­port plat­form for uncrewed air­craft ser­vices into com­mer­cial

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty and Brazil­ian oper­a­tor Fly­BIS Avi­a­tion have signed a bind­ing agree­ment cov­er­ing up to 12 elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off

Joby Avi­a­tion has secured addi­tion­al fund­ing from the US Air Force for its autonomous flight pro­gramme, bring­ing the service’s total

Japan’s Finance Min­is­ter, Sat­su­ki Kataya­ma, has vis­it­ed SkyDrive’s flight test facil­i­ty in Yam­aguchi City to observe a demon­stra­tion of the

Acoustic mod­el­ling by Ger­man con­sul­tan­cy Munich Aeroa­coustics (MUAA) sug­gests that a spe­cial­ly designed frac­tal sur­face could help reduce noise from

eVTOL Insights has opened nom­i­na­tions for its Ones to Watch Spe­cial Report, its final one of 2026 and which will

Ver­ti­cal Aero­space has appoint­ed Andrew Teich, the for­mer chief exec­u­tive of defence tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny FLIR Sys­tems, to its board of

BETA Tech­nolo­gies has com­plet­ed 14 flights across Flori­da with its ALIA CTOL elec­tric air­craft, cov­er­ing near­ly 700 nau­ti­cal miles as

Joby Avi­a­tion has begun a week-long series of pilot­ed elec­tric air taxi flights in Flori­da, work­ing with the Flori­da Depart­ment

Wisk Aero has opened a 100ft by 100ft ver­ti­port at Hol­lis­ter Munic­i­pal Air­port in Cal­i­for­nia, pro­vid­ing a ded­i­cat­ed facil­i­ty for

Japan­ese eVTOL devel­op­er Sky­Drive has signed a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing (MOU) with six Sin­­ga­­pore-based tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies to explore joint research,

EHang has estab­lished a region­al hub in Thai­land to sup­port the deploy­ment of its elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (eVTOL)

Archer Avi­a­tion and ITA Air­ways have signed an agree­ment to explore the devel­op­ment of an all-elec­tric air taxi net­work in

US-based Maxwell Air­craft has unveiled the M1 Hybrid, a patent-pend­ing amphibi­ous air­craft design that com­bines elec­tric propul­sion for take-off and

Air­speed­er has announced the first three pilots for its inau­gur­al Inter­na­tion­al Series, nam­ing com­peti­tors from Aus­tralia, the Unit­ed States and

Elec­tra has demon­strat­ed its hybrid-elec­tric EL2 tech­nol­o­gy demon­stra­tor tak­ing off and land­ing at Down­town Sky­port in Low­er Man­hat­tan, in what

Flori­da Poly­tech­nic Uni­ver­si­ty has tak­en deliv­ery of a Jet­son ONE sin­­gle-seat elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (eVTOL) air­craft for its