Revolution.Aero Uplift: Dronamics cargo drones to be ‘faster than road, cheaper than air’

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Alasdair Whyte

14 Apr 21

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It started with cheese. When Konstantin Rangelov moved to the Netherlands to study aeronautical engineering, he missed his native Bulgarian feta-style sirene cheese – a…

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Jet charter company Wheels Up to enter urban air mobility sector

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Alasdair Whyte

12 Apr 21

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Jet charter company Wheels Up has announced plans to enter the urban air mobility (UAM) sector – through a partnership with helicopter OEM Bell Textron…

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Revolution.Aero Town Hall: SPACs – from fringe concept to Wall Street

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Alasdair Whyte

8 Apr 21

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“In 12-24 months, it went from being a fringe concept to mainstream Wall Street,” said Cyrus Sigari, co-founder and managing partner, UP.Partners, at the latest…

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Breaking: Archer denies allegations of theft of trade secrets and patent infringement by Wisk

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Alasdair Whyte

8 Apr 21

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When two of the market leaders are involved in litigation, you know an industry is maturing. Wisk Aero yesterday announced that it was suing competitor…

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Revolution.Aero Uplift: Broadening Horizons with Cavorite (X5)

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Alasdair Whyte

26 Mar 21

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There is no doubt that science fiction writer HG Wells was ahead of his time. But he did not know by how much. His character…

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Revolution.Aero Uplift: Unicorns, SPAC(-tacular) failures and tightropes

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Alasdair Whyte

25 Mar 21

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To take a company public is no mean task. The scale of the challenge was revealed during yesterday’s Revolution.Aero Town Hall online meeting. Audited financial…

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Ampaire and Rolls-Royce win part of £30m fund

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Alasdair Whyte

24 Mar 21

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A consortium comprising Ampaire and Rolls-Royce’s Electrical division have received part of a £30m ($41m) fund to prove the feasibility and advantages of regional electric…

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Revolution.Aero Uplift: Landing the multibillion-dollar air taxi market

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Alasdair Whyte

18 Mar 21

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Whether you believe the estimated air taxi market value of $5bn (by 2030) or $1.5trn (by 2040), when the handful of commercially viable air taxi…

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Horizon Aircraft: Most eVTOLs will ‘fail to find affordable insurance’

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Alasdair Whyte

17 Mar 21

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Electric taxi manufacturer Horizon Aircraft says most eVTOL aircraft seeking to become commercially operational will fail to secure insurance at an affordable price. This is…

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Revolution.Aero Uplift: AeroMobil hopes to launch a regional ride-hailing flying car app

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Alasdair Whyte

16 Mar 21

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Picture this. You live in San Francisco but need to make a last-minute trip to Los Angeles for business tomorrow. Driving down would take six…

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Hyundai Motor Group appoints Ben Diachun as CTO for Urban Air Mobility Division

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Alasdair Whyte

12 Mar 21

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Over the course of his career, Diachun helped develop 16 groundbreaking aerospace vehicles, including SpaceShipOne, the first commercial manned spaceship, and BlackFly, an electric personal…

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Jump Aero and Oklahoma State University win US Air Force contract

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Alasdair Whyte

11 Mar 21

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Jump Aero and Oklahoma State University’s (OSU) Unmanned Systems Research Institute have been awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) research contract from…

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Town Hall: SPACs driven by seasoned institutional investors

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Alasdair Whyte

8 Mar 21

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The increased use of technology through Covid-19 has helped win investment in autonomy and artificial intelligence (AI), said Kirsten Bartok Touw, managing partner, AirFinance, at…

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Town Hall: Tesla Roadster ‘points the way for air mobility’

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Alasdair Whyte

5 Mar 21

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The development of the Tesla Roadster, the battery electric vehicle sports car launched in 2008, points a path for the evolution of air mobility, according…

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AeroMobil releases footage of STOL AeroMobil 4.0

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Alasdair Whyte

4 Mar 21

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Flying car company AeroMobil has finished its first set of test flights and released never-before-seen footage of its STOL vehicle, AeroMobil 4.0 in flight.

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