Advanced Air Mobility

New York 2022: Oct 10th – 11th

Jason Pritchard23 May 2022

eVTOL Insights is super excited to announce its second in-person conference will take place in New York from October 10th-11th. Taking place at the Dream Downtown Hotel during the same week as Joby Aviation’s Elevate Summit, ticket...

eVTOL Insights heads to New York for its next industry conference from October 10th to 11th – tickets now on sale

Jason Pritchard23 May 2022

eVTOL Insights is super excited to announce its second in-person conference will take place in New York from October 10th-11th. Taking place at the Dream Downtown Hotel during the same week as Joby Aviation's Elevate Summit, tickets cost $449. S...

ARCHER AVIATION: “AND THEN THERE WAS ONE!”

Chris Stonor20 May 2022

Archer Aviation appeared from nowhere in late May, 2020. The company had quietly moved from A to Z without even passing 'GO'. Archer was already on par with the leading eVTOL pioneers and had blessings from the business elite. Yet, the company wa...

Urban Movement Labs Partners with Overair on Los Angeles eVTOL Infrastructure

eVTOL Insights Editorial19 May 2022

Urban Movement Labs (UML) has announced a new partnership with eVTOL company Overair to bring urban air mobility (UAM) to the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, which will focus on implementing safe, equitable, convenient, and sustainable UAM. ...

ZURI unveils more details about its upcoming hybrid VTOL aircraft

eVTOL Insights Editorial18 May 2022

Technology has changed a lot in our lifetime but aeroplanes basically look the same, and getting to a major airport is time consuming, while waiting in a crowded airport lobby and going through all the checks is a frustrating experience. Zuri’s f...

Modified FAA eVTOL Certification Rules: “Much Ado About Nothing?”

Chris Stonor17 May 2022

The story broke on Tuesday, May 10th via Twitter. The “media-broker” was theaircurrent.com. Described as a huge scoop by co-writer Jon Ostrower, he tweeted, “The FAA is dramatically revising its approach to certifying electric vertical take-off and ...

Kanematsu launches Hyogo AAM Laboratory in Japan with Chuo Fukken Consultants, Pasona Group and Buzzport

eVTOL Insights Editorial16 May 2022

Japanese firm Kanematsu has launched the Hyogo Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Laboratory by working with university and high school students in partnership with Chuo Fukken Consultants, Pasona Group, and Buzzport. The Hyogo Advanced Air Mobility (HA...

FAA Approves Airworthiness Criteria for Wingcopter in US Type Certification

eVTOL Insights Editorial13 May 2022

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved Special Class Airworthiness Criteria for the Wingcopter 198 US unmanned aircraft, which defines technological requirements under title 14, Code of Federal Regulations that must be met to have an...

Skyroads partners with Urban Movement Labs to evaluate automated airspace management in Los Angeles

eVTOL Insights Editorial12 May 2022

Skyroads has announced a partnership with Urban Movement Labs (UML) to deploy data-informed, community-driven and tech-enabled mobility in Los Angeles. The city invests over $13 billion a year on transportation projects alone and envisions a futu...

Airbus partners with MAGicALL to develop electric motors for CityAirbus NextGen

eVTOL Insights Editorial12 May 2022

Airbus has selected MAGicALL to supply motors for the NextGen eVTOL aircraft with a prototype using a tailored version of the MagiDrive. The detailed customisation of NextGen’s electric propulsion system will enable the prototype to benefit from ...

Embraer and Eve evaluate autonomous flight in real flights over Rio de Janeiro

eVTOL Insights Editorial11 May 2022

Embraer has concluded a series of experimental flights in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focussed on evaluating new autonomous system technologies in real flight conditions. The aerial data collection and real-time evaluation in urban scenarios used reg...

Archer Aviation shares attract major financial institution coverage

Chris Stonor11 May 2022

It has been a painful rough and tumble time for those eVTOL companies listed on the world’s stock markets. Share prices are down, investors are down, where belief and faith in this nascent industry is being sorely tested. Yet, the last few weeks ...

eVTOL Insights to moderate panel at MOVE 2022 on integrating Advanced Air Mobility into connected transport

eVTOL Insights Editorial10 May 2022

eVTOL Insights will be attending MOVE 2022 at London's ExCeL from June 15th - 16th, where Executive Editor Jason Pritchard will moderate a panel on how Advanced Air Mobility can be integrated into connected transport. MOVE is a specialised and f...

Do Flying Taxi Projected Flight Costs Add Up Or Is It All “Pie In The Sky?”

Chris Stonor9 May 2022

Last month bloomberg.com published an optimistic article about Joby Aviation and its CEO, JoeBen Bevirt, who was on a UK scouting mission for future flight routes. Bevirt is quoted: “The UK market is really spectacular. When you come here ...

Manta Aircraft to work with Avionord and develop its ANN eVTOL platform for medical transportation

Jason Pritchard5 May 2022

Manta Aircraft and private medical air transport company Avionord have agreed to field up to 15 hybrid-electric long-range eVTOL aircraft derived from Manta's ANN platform. Avionord will also take a stake in the company with deliveries expe...

NBAA applauds US House of Representatives on passing a bill to accelerate Advanced Air Mobility

Jason Pritchard3 May 2022

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has applauded the action taken in the US House of Representatives on two key pieces of aviation legislation. The first - known as the Advanced Aviation Infrastructure Modernisation Act (AAIM Act)...

Helinet and Urban Movement Labs to explore how eVTOL technology can be integrated into air travel in Los Angeles

Jason Pritchard28 April 2022

Helinet is to work with Urban Movement Labs (UML) to explore the future of air travel hand-in-hand with eVTOL aircraft manufacturers and the advanced air mobility industry in Los Angeles. This partnership will explore how aviation operators like ...

Air-One, Urban-Air Port’s first UK hub for drones and eVTOL aircraft, opens in Coventry

Jason Pritchard25 April 2022

Urban-Air Port has opened today (Monday) what it claims to be the world’s first hub for flying taxis, Air-One, in Coventry, UK - representing a blueprint for more than 200 sites to be built worldwide over the next five years. The advanced air mob...

Mitch Heaton joins Hartzell Propeller to lead company’s AAM programmes for electric aircraft

Jason Pritchard19 April 2022

Hartzell Propeller has appointed Mitch Heaton as director of Business Development and New Technology to further the company’s programmes involving advanced air mobility (AAM). His focus will be on developing propellers for eVTOL, eSTOL, ele...

Wisk and Skyports to release first-of-its-kind concept of operations for autonomous advanced air mobility

Jason Pritchard12 April 2022

Wisk Aero and Skyports are partnering to integrate autonomous eVTOL aircraft operations at vertiports, in what is said to mark the first collaboration between a vertiport developer and an autonomous eVTOL developer in the USA. The partnersh...

Vertical Flight Society continues its record membership growth, with a 15 per cent net increase from 12 months ago

Jason Pritchard8 April 2022

The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) has continued to experience record growth this quarter, and 173 companies are now members of VFS as of April 1, 2022, a net growth of 23 organisations (15%) from a year ago and a doubling over the past five years. ...