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New materials developed in South Korea help Air Taxis take off
New materials developed in South Korea help Air Taxis take off Development of 100% self-reinforced composites for urban air mobility (UAM) and other applications. Significant improvement in bonding strength, tensile strength, and impact resistance compared to previous work. In order for future mobil...
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Bellwether reveals their next generation Flying Car Concept
Bellwether reveals their next generation Flying Car Concept Bellwether Industries, the London-based urban air mobility company, introduces the latest eVTOL (electric Vertical Take-off and Landing) aircraft model and demonstrates the ambition of revolutions in the industry. On October 26th, Bellwethe...
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Bellwether solving personal transport problems for the cities of the future
Bellwether solving personal transport problems for the cities of the future Cities are growing, becoming more crowded and more congested. While more personal vehicles crammed into a limited space slow traffic down, Bellwether Industries is founded on the belief that there will always be a need for p...
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DJI releases the Avata Immersive Drone
DJI releases the Avata Immersive Drone DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and creative camera technology, today introduces DJI Avata, a transformational new drone that offers an unparalleled experience of immersive flight. DJI Avata creates a new paradigm for first-person view (FPV) drone fl...
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DJI granted C1 EU-type Examination Drone Certification
DJI granted C1 EU-type Examination Drone Certification DJI, the global leader in civilian drones and creative camera technology, has been granted the world’s first C1 EU-type examination certificate for drones under the new European Drone Regulation. The C1 certificate for the Mavic 3 series – which...
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Volkswagen unveils Passenger eVTOL Prototype
Volkswagen unveils Passenger eVTOL Prototype Volkswagen Group China unveiled its first electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) passenger drone prototype, as part of its strategy to explore and break new ground in fully electric and sustainable individual mobility concepts. In 2020, Volkswagen...
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Space Perspective unveils state-of-the-art composite Capsule Design
Space Perspective unveils state-of-the-art composite Capsule Design Space travel is about to get safer, more comfortable, and even more thrilling. Space Perspective, Planet Earth’s leading luxury space travel company, unveils the patent-pending Spaceship Neptune capsule design now in production at t...
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Sensata develops fly-by-wire Inceptor for the Air Mobility Market
Sensata develops fly-by-wire Inceptor for the Air Mobility Market Sensata Technologies today announced it has developed a new fly-by-wire inceptor for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and has provided prototypes to several advanced air mobility manufacturers. Sensata will show...
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Ricardo partners with Pratt and Whitney for Hybrid-Electric Aerospace Technology
Ricardo partners with Pratt and Whitney for Hybrid-Electric Aerospace Technology Ricardo, a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, has signed a multi-year deal with Pratt & Whitney Canada, a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft and helicop...
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AIR celebrates successful eVTOL Hover Flight Trial
AIR celebrates successful eVTOL Hover Flight Trial Today AIR, creator of eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft for the consumer market, announced that its inaugural vehicle, AIR ONE, has successfully completed its first hover test after receiving its airworthiness certificate. At ap...
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Evolito acquires Electroflight for Battery Powertrain Solutions
Evolito acquires Electroflight for Battery Powertrain Solutions Evolito, a privately-owned company designing and manufacturing world-leading electric motors and controllers for aerospace applications, has today announced the acquisition of the business and assets of Cheltenham-based aerospace batter...
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Airports operators must be Hydrogen Ready to land Net Zero targets
Airports operators must be Hydrogen Ready to land Net Zero targets Airport owners and operators need to plan for the delivery and storage of hydrogen now if they are to be ready to fuel hydrogen-powered aircraft by 2035. This is according to new research by Jacobs, ‘Airports as Catalysts for Decarbo...
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DJI introduces powerful Mini 3 Pro sub 249g Camera Drone
DJI introduces powerful Mini 3 Pro sub 249g Camera Drone DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and creative camera technology, today releases DJI Mini 3 Pro, its most powerful lightweight and portable camera drone. Weighing less than 249 grams to be policy-friendly in many regions and countries...
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Bellwether and Inmarsat explore satellite communications to optimise intra-city transport
Bellwether and Inmarsat explore satellite communications to optimise intra-city transport To revolutionise intra-city travel, Bellwether is bringing to market Volar, a UAM aircraft for personal and private mobility, designed to fly anyone at any time between any points in a city. Volar’s user-centri...
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Aeva 4D LiDAR Technology helping NASA to Map the Moon
Aeva 4D LiDAR Technology helping NASA to Map the Moon Aeva®, a leader in next-generation sensing and perception systems, today announced that NASA’s Kinematic Navigation and Cartography Knapsack (KNaCK) Instrument project, a LiDAR-based mobile terrain-mapping and navigation system designed to suppor...
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FedEx and Elroy Air to test Autonomous Drone Cargo Delivery
FedEx and Elroy Air to test Autonomous Drone Cargo Delivery FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and the world’s largest express transportation company, is teaming up with California Bay Area-based Elroy Air, the company building the first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (V...
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Turkey orders 100 Vx4 Avolon eVTOL aircraft for Zero Emissions Air Travel
Turkey orders 100 Vx4 Avolon eVTOL aircraft for Zero Emissions Air Travel Avolon, the international aircraft leasing company, announces that Gözen Holding, one of Turkey’s leading aviation conglomerates and owner of Freebird Airlines, has committed to purchase or lease up to 50 VX4 eVTOL aircraft fr...
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Skyports raises $23m to advance air mobility infrastructure
Skyports raises $23m to advance air mobility infrastructure Skyports, the electric air taxi infrastructure and drone services provider, has raised USD 23 million in the first close of its Series B funding round. The capital, from a combination of new and existing investors, will enable Skyports to c...
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AIR and FlyOnE accelerating Personal eVTOL adoption in Australia
AIR and FlyOnE accelerating Personal eVTOL adoption in Australia Today AIR, creator of eVTOLs for the consumer market, announced its partnership with Australia’s FlyOnE, a pioneer of goods and services in the emerging green transport market and a leading supplier of electric aircraft. The partnershi...
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H3 Dynamics develops prototype Hydrogen Aircraft Propulsor Nacelle
H3 Dynamics develops prototype Hydrogen Aircraft Propulsor Nacelle H3 Dynamics has successfully completed the world’s first fully integrated hydrogen-electric propulsion aircraft nacelle, the core enabling power solution for propulsion of future hydrogen aircraft designs. In the coming years, such a...
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Boeing invests $450m in Wisk Aero to advance Certified Autonomous Electric Flight
Boeing invests $450m in Wisk Aero to advance Certified Autonomous Electric Flight Wisk, a leading Advanced Air Mobility company and developer of the first all-electric, self-flying air taxi in the U.S., has secured $450 million in funding from The Boeing Company, making it one of the most well-funde...
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Bellwether reveals the first public flight footage of the Volar eVTOL
Bellwether reveals the first public flight footage of the Volar eVTOL Bellwether Industries, a London-based urban air mobility start-up, has officially released its video of a freeflight test of the half-scale eVTOL model, responding to the growing interest from the public. Last year, Bellwether Ind...
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Improving the UK’s infrastructure with Highways in the sky
Improving the UK’s infrastructure with Highways in the sky The country’s shortage of HGV drivers highlights the need to reimagine how we move goods across the UK. The world is on the cusp of a revolution in aviation, as the implementation of electric and autonomous flight gives us a unique opp...
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DJI reimagines the Mavic 3 with better sensors and smarter technology
DJI reimagines the Mavic 3 with better sensors and smarter technology DJI, the global leader in civilian drones and creative camera technology, today reimagines what a drone can be with the new Mavic 3, a bold and brilliant update of the iconic folding camera drone that once again redefines how to c...
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Smart EV Technologies and Mobility Ecosystem unveiled at XPeng 1024 Tech Day
Smart EV Technologies and Mobility Ecosystem unveiled at XPeng 1024 Tech Day XPeng today revealed a series of crucial innovations at its annual 1024 Tech Day, including the latest and most sophisticated version of its in-house developed advanced driver assistance system XPILOT 3.5 and XPILOT 4.0, th...
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Reliable Robotics raises $100m to extend remotely piloted cargo operations
Reliable Robotics raises $100m to extend remotely piloted cargo operations Reliable Robotics, a leader in automated aircraft systems, announced today a $100 million Series C funding round led by Coatue Management. Coatue joins past investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eclipse Ventures, Teamworthy...
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Terrafugia launches Commaris Commercial UAV at Commercial UAV Expo
Terrafugia launches Commaris Commercial UAV at Commercial UAV Expo Terrafugia Inc. today announces the launch of a new brand, Commaris™, and the brand’s first product, the SEEKER™, an innovative, electric, fixed-wing/VTOL hybrid aircraft designed explicitly for autonomous commercial ae...
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Transcend Air to use GE Aviation engines for Groundbreaking Vy 400 VTOL Aircraft
Transcend Air to use GE Aviation engines for Groundbreaking Vy 400 VTOL Aircraft Transcend Air Corporation today announced an agreement with GE Aviation to develop and certify a custom variant of GE’s class-leading CT7-8 turboshaft helicopter engine to power the Vy 400 High Speed Vertical Takeoff an...
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DHL Express orders 12 fully electric Eviation cargo planes
DHL Express orders 12 fully electric Eviation cargo planes DHL Express, the world’s leading express service provider, and Eviation, the Seattle-area based global manufacturer of all-electric aircraft, today write aviation history in announcing that DHL is the first to order 12 fully electric Alice e...
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Skyworks Aeronautics announces order of 100 eGyro Electric Aircraft
Skyworks Aeronautics announces order of 100 eGyro Electric Aircraft Skyworks Aeronautics announces the order of 100 eGyro™ electrically powered vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from a consortium of Mint Air and Mobius.energy Corp with options for an additional 100 aircraft. “A c...
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Airspeeder makes first full-scale electric flying racing car test flights
Airspeeder makes first full-scale electric flying racing car test flights In the summer of 2019 entrepreneur Matthew Pearson stated his ambition to create the world’s first racing series for electric flying cars. His mission was informed by the role racing historically played in accelerating the dev...
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Halo Urban Air Mobility orders 200 eVTOL aircraft from Embraer
Halo Urban Air Mobility orders 200 eVTOL aircraft from Embraer Halo, the first global provider for private urban air mobility, has placed a firm order of 200 Eve Urban Air Mobility vehicles, making it the launch customer for this aircraft. The electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft...
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Designing the world’s first electric flying racing car
Designing the world’s first electric flying racing car At Goodwood Speed Week, Airspeeder unveiled to the world the Mk3 racing prototype. This remotely-piloted craft showed the form of the world’s first full-scale and functional electric flying racing car. Today, the production version of this...
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Air Taxis will utilize next-generation batteries and motors
Air Taxis will utilize next-generation batteries and motors Electrical Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft (eVTOL) are moving from science fiction to reality, enabled by rapid advancements in electric motor, battery, and computing technology A new report from IDTechEx, “Air Taxis: Electric Vertic...
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Virgin Galactic and Land Rover extend partnership and reveal new spaceship
Virgin Galactic and Land Rover extend partnership and reveal new spaceship Land Rover has announced a three-year extension to its global partnership with Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial ‘spaceline’. Virgin Galactic’s latest spaceship was unveiled today, supported by a Range Rover Astro...
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Kaman K-MAX gets to work with Black Tusk Helicopter in Canada
Kaman K-MAX gets to work with Black Tusk Helicopter in Canada Kaman Air Vehicles announced they have delivered a new medium-to-heavy lift K-MAX® helicopter to Black Tusk Helicopter Inc. of Squamish, BC, Canada. Black Tusk performs various external lift projects of every scale, ranging from aerial ti...
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Electric air taxi project in the South West England wins government grant funding
Electric air taxi project in the South West England wins government grant funding A consortium led by Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, and involving Vertical Aerospace and the West of England Combined Authority has been awarded an industrial research grant by the UK Government to look at t...
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Sony unveils Airpeak drone at CES 2021
Sony unveils Airpeak drone at CES 2021 Today Sony launched the Airpeak brand with the goal to further develop today’s drone technology while achieving the utmost in value creation. As the first phase of this project, Sony will launch a new business targeted for professional photography and vid...
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