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The Chinese company rolled out the first full-scale example of the lift-and-cruise design on September 2, at an airfield in Yixin, a city near Shanghai.
The company aims to provide eVTOL transportation routes connecting all major regions in the Québec province by 2030, and it intends to expand its operations to 1,500 vertiports across five continents by 2045.
Jeju Island has announced its intention to launch eVTOL air taxi routes for tourists in 2025, making it South Korea’s first municipality to adopt plans for urban air mobility.
Destinus, a Swiss start-up that aims to develop a hydrogen-powered hypersonic aircraft for high-speed cargo deliveries, has resumed test flights with its Jungfrau technology demonstrator.
The specialist helicopter manufacturer believes it can save lives and costs by replacing crewed helicopters with its new 500-pound autonomous vehicle for military resupply missions.
The U.S start-up has been supported by Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore as it steps up the certification process for its family of sea gliders. It now expects to engage with the U.S. Coast Guard on the next stage in the process.
Vermont-based eVTOL developer Beta Technologies says no one was injured after a fire erupted in a shipping container outside its headquarters at Burlington International Airport.
The Australian state's government has issued an advanced air mobility policy document to support the development of advanced air mobility and Melbourne could get the country's first vertiport for eVTOL aircraft flights.
Zeva Aero, the company behind the flying saucer-shaped Zero eVTOL that made its inaugural test flight earlier this year, is working on a new prototype of its unique aircraft concept.
The new Singapore-based operator expects to start air taxi services in Thailand and has wider plans to build a flight network across Southeast Asia, as well as in the Middle East and Africa.
Filton Systems Engineering and Fabrum have developed test equipment to help GKN Aerospace advance technology to fuel aircraft propulsion systems with liquid hydrogen.
The U.S.-based industry standards group has taken five years to develop specific guidance about how to design vertiports and vertistops for new VTOL aircraft.
The FAA has accepted Reliable Robotics' certification basis for the advanced navigation and autoflight system, which should receive supplemental type certification next year.
The start-up believes it can deliver a quantum leap in performance with technology using a small flow of compressed air from a turbo-compressor to suck in a much greater volume of ambient air, creating a vortex that significantly amplifies the airflow.
The TriFan 600 is now expected to take until 2027 to enter commercial service, carrying between four and six passengers in various business and airline applications.