eVTOL Insights’ October Digital Magazine explores leadership, autonomy and the next steps for Advanced Air Mobility

The Octo­ber 2026 edi­tion of eVTOL Insights’ Dig­i­tal Mag­a­zine is now avail­able, bring­ing togeth­er indus­try devel­op­ments and per­spec­tives on the peo­ple, tech­nolo­gies and infra­struc­ture shap­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.

Head­lin­ing this issue is an in-depth fea­ture with Bran­don Robin­son, CEO and co-founder of Hori­zon Air­craft, who shares a can­did per­spec­tive on lead­er­ship, risk and resilience.

From lessons learned as a fight­er pilot to the per­son­al pres­sures of entre­pre­neur­ship, Robin­son dis­cuss­es what it takes to build an avi­a­tion busi­ness, devel­op a team and keep com­mer­cial pri­or­i­ties at the heart of air­craft devel­op­ment. The con­ver­sa­tion takes read­ers beyond pro­gramme mile­stones to explore the deci­sions and expe­ri­ences behind Horizon’s jour­ney.

Also fea­tured in this month’s edi­tion is Joby Aviation’s autonomous jour­ney across the Unit­ed States. A con­vert­ed Cess­na Car­a­van equipped with the company’s auton­o­my tech­nol­o­gy trav­elled 3,199 miles from Cal­i­for­nia to North Car­oli­na with­out con­trol inputs from its onboard safe­ty pilot, offer­ing a glimpse into the poten­tial appli­ca­tions of autonomous flight.

On the ground, we exam­ine Archer Avi­a­tion and BETA Tech­nolo­gies’ plans for a shared charg­ing net­work in Texas. Their pro­posed approach high­lights the impor­tance of infra­struc­ture that can accom­mo­date mul­ti­ple air­craft man­u­fac­tur­ers and oper­a­tors as elec­tric avi­a­tion devel­ops.

In Europe, the mag­a­zine looks at three projects select­ed for the UK Civ­il Avi­a­tion Authority’s Hydro­gen Chal­lenge, address­ing ques­tions around air­craft turn­around, hydro­gen stor­age and air­port infra­struc­ture. The work will help build under­stand­ing of the prac­ti­cal require­ments for intro­duc­ing hydro­gen into avi­a­tion.

Mean­while, Sky­Drive and Verty’s plans to explore com­mer­cial eVTOL ser­vices in South Korea from 2028 pro­vide an Asia-Pacif­ic per­spec­tive. Their fea­si­bil­i­ty study will exam­ine poten­tial routes, infra­struc­ture and oper­a­tional require­ments, with tourism and region­al con­nec­tions among the appli­ca­tions under con­sid­er­a­tion.

These are just a few of the sto­ries inside the Octo­ber edi­tion, with fur­ther cov­er­age from across North Amer­i­ca, Europe and Asia-Pacif­ic.

As the indus­try works towards every­day oper­a­tions, this issue exam­ines a cen­tral ques­tion: what will it take to turn promis­ing air­craft pro­grammes into depend­able, com­mer­cial­ly viable ser­vices?

Read the Octo­ber 2026 edi­tion of eVTOL Insights’ Dig­i­tal Mag­a­zine here: