USA - eVTOL Insights

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...

Talyn Air co-founder and CEO Jamie Gull introduces its unique eVTOL aircraft inspired by a 2-stage rocket design

Jason Pritchard20 May 2022

Our next podcast episode is live and we were delighted to welcome Jamie Gull, co-founder and CEO of Talyn Air. Jamie worked at Scaled Composites designing prototype aircraft, and then was an engineer at SpaceX for over 5 years on the Falcon 9 ro...

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. ...

AeroX seeks low-altitude surveillance system to support urban drone operations in North Carolina

eVTOL Insights Editorial13 May 2022

AeroX is seeking information from companies to provide a ground-based surveillance system to support low-altitude traffic management and to expand drone operations in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina. Project air traffic low-altit...

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...

Joby’s eVTOL aircraft registers equivalent of 45.2 dBA during acoustic footprint testing with NASA

eVTOL Insights Editorial10 May 2022

Joby Aviation has announced that its full-size pre-production aircraft has successfully demonstrated its low noise profile, following acoustic testing completed with NASA. Following analysis of the data obtained over two weeks of testing, Joby’s ...

Tyler Painter joins Wisk’s leadership team as company’s new Chief Financial Officer

Jason Pritchard4 May 2022

Wisk has announced Tyler Painter as the company's new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), bringing a strong history of developing, launching, and commercialising new technologies. Painter will lead Wisk’s finance, accounting, corporate developme...

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 ...

Archer and United Airlines form joint eVTOL advisory committee to support adoption of urban air mobility

Jason Pritchard28 April 2022

Archer and United Airlines have created a joint eVTOL advisory committee, which will focus on the development of systems and features intended to further the widespread adoption of urban air mobility (UAM) and eVTOL aircraft. It will also ac...

BETA Technologies partners with Vermont Technical College to launch provisional chapter of Women in Aviation International

Jason Pritchard26 April 2022

Vermont Technical College has launched a provisional chapter of Women in Aviation International, in partnership with Beta Technologies and Vermont Flight Academy, to provide a professional networking space to students and graduates of its Profession...

Vertical Flight Society announces winners of its inaugural DiversiFlite Scholars Programme

Jason Pritchard22 April 2022

The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) has announced three competitively selected engineering students at US minority-serving institutions for its inaugural 2022 DiversiFlite Scholars programme. The programme selected the following engineering s...

BETA Technologies secures $375 million in latest Series B Funding Round

Jason Pritchard21 April 2022

BETA Technologies has raised $375 million in an oversubscribed Series B financing round, led by TPG Rise Climate and Fidelity Management & Research Company. This funding will support the advancement of BETA’s integrated electric aviation syst...

Joby Aviation to host first Elevate Summit in New York later this year

Jason Pritchard21 April 2022

Joby Aviation will host the 2022 Elevate Summit from October 12th to 13th in New York, with the event providing another opportunity for the entire aerial ride-sharing ecosystem to discuss its progress in the sector. It will take place at Duggal G...

Giancarlo Zema Design Group to develop surveillance infrastructure for drone operations under new partnership

Jason Pritchard19 April 2022

Formenton Security Group (FSG) and XtraMedium Communications have partnered through their MySkaut venture company with the Giancarlo Zema Design Group (GZDG) to design innovative urban furniture for the Smart Cities of the future, capable of managin...

Northern Plains UAS Test Site and Thales provide key updates on country’s first statewide BVLOS network

Jason Pritchard14 April 2022

Our next podcast episode is now live! We were delighted to welcome Trevor Woods, Executive Director at the Northern Plains UAS Test Site in North Dakota, and Frank Matus, Director, ATC Digital Aviation Solutions, Americas – Thales Airspace Mobility ...

Eve Air Mobility and Zanite Acquisition Corp announce filing of definitive proxy statement ahead of business merger

Jason Pritchard14 April 2022

Eve Air Mobility has confirmed Zanite Acquisition Corp has filed its definitive proxy statement which is related to the companies' proposed business combination which was announced last year. The filing of the Definitive Proxy Statement is a...

DIFCO partners with Hughes Aerospace and Five-Alpha to build USA’s first aero-medical eVTOL vertiport in Illinois

Jason Pritchard14 April 2022

DIFCO has begun construction of the first eVTOL aircraft vertiport facility at Rock Island, Illinois. Officially named The Corporal Jason G Pautsch Vertiport, the site is located centrally within the four Quad Cities metropolitan area and w...

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...

LIFT Aircraft awarded Phase III contract through Agility Prime to continue flight testing its HEXA eVTOL ultralight

Jason Pritchard8 April 2022

LIFT Aircraft has been awarded a Phase 3 contract through the USAF’s Agility Prime Program, to continue experimentation and flight testing around HEXA, LIFT’s all-electric, single-seat eVTOL aircraft. Since 2020, LIFT Aircraft has conducted fligh...

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. ...

Archer to work with Hexcel Composites and build its manufacturing pipeline ahead of announcing production facility location

Jason Pritchard7 April 2022

Archer has entered into a Letter of Intent with advanced lightweight composites firm Hexcel, which covers a proposed relationship to the supply of high-performance carbon fibre material in the manufacturing of Archer’s eVTOL aircraft. Under the p...

FedEx to test autonomous drone cargo delivery with Elroy Air, with mid-mile flights to start from next year

Jason Pritchard1 April 2022

FedEx and Elroy Air are to test launch autonomous drone cargo delivery flights for middle-mile delivery in 2023, using Elroy’s Chaparral autonomous air cargo system to move shipments between sortation locations. FedEx says the exponential g...