Revolution.Aero’s EAA AirVenture round-up news Alasdair Whyte 2 Aug 19 0 Revolution.Aero does a round-up of some of the most prominent options on the urban air mobility (UAM) horizon that exhibited at EAA AirVenture’s annual air… Read more
AeroMobil 4.0: It is a car..and it is a plane news Alasdair Whyte 1 Aug 19 0 Slovakian technology start-up AeroMobil first broke onto the scene in 2010. 9 years on, the AeroMobil 4.0 - a vehicle you can fly and drive… Read more
Tecnalia reveals eVTOL prototype news Alasdair Whyte 31 Jul 19 0 Spanish tech and research firm Tecnalia is taking its first step into the urban air mobility (UAM) market by building and flying a 16-rotor eVTOL… Read more
Daedalean raises CHF11.8 million in new venture round news Alasdair Whyte 30 Jul 19 0 Autonomous-flight software start-up has raised approximately CHF11.8 million ($11.8 million) in its recent venture capital round. Read more
Continental Aerospace and VerdeGo Aero to enter strategic partnership news Alasdair Whyte 29 Jul 19 0 The two companies will work to create Integrated Distributed Electric Propulsion systems for the rapidly growing eVTOL market. Read more
The silver lining to Franky Zapata’s cross-Channel flight cloud news Alasdair Whyte 26 Jul 19 0 Personal VTOL inventor may have ended up neck-deep in English Channel water, but it’s not all doom and gloom. Read more
A Catalyst for change: XTI partners with GE news Alasdair Whyte 26 Jul 19 0 XTI has partnered with GE Aviation to develop a hybrid-electric propulsion system to power the XTI TriFan 600 eVTOL – with GE’s new Catalyst turboprop… Read more
Airbus unveils new airliner concept ‘Bird of Prey’ news Alasdair Whyte 25 Jul 19 0 The company’s new proof of concept aims to inspire engineers of the future. Read more
Innovator plans cross-Channel flight on personal VTOL news Alasdair Whyte 23 Jul 19 0 Franky Zapata, founder of Zapata Racing, will attempt to cross the English Channel on his personal VTOL – Flyboard Air – this Thursday, 25th July. Read more
Personal VTOL prototype wows Bastille Day crowds news Alasdair Whyte 23 Jul 19 0 Aerial inventor posed as a ‘flying solider’, hinting at national military capabilities. Read more
Hybrid electric start-up Ampaire open to further commerical orders news Alasdair Whyte 18 Jul 19 0 Ampaire, the California-based, electric aviation start-up, has announced that it will be accepting further commercial Letters of Intent for its hybrid electric aircraft, at the… Read more
Pegasus Universal Aerospace, vertical jet start-up, names Robbie Irons as CEO news Alasdair Whyte 18 Jul 19 0 South Africa’s Pegasus Universal Aerospace, pioneer of the Vertical Business Jet (VBJ®) Pegasus One, has named Robbie Irons as its Chief Executive Officer. In this… Read more
PRICE Systems helps Uber estmate prices for Uber Air news Alasdair Whyte 17 Jul 19 0 Uber expects to launch aerial ridesharing service by 2023. But how much will it cost per hour? Read more
We could be flying, yeah! news Alasdair Whyte 16 Jul 19 0 Vincent Loubière shares Airbus’s urban air mobility plans for the Paris Olympics, to be hosted in 2024. Read more
Google Flohr news Alasdair Whyte 15 Jul 19 0 In 2007, Google launched a directory inquiries free-phone line. All you had to do was stop playing snake on your Nokia and dial 1-800-GOOG-411. It… Read more