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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez says he wants eVTOL aircraft providing flights across the South Florida city by 2024.

Varon Vehicles is partnering with Paladin AI to tap machine learning and artificial intelligence to train a new breed of flight crew for eVTOL aircraft.

Almost one-fifth of the 37 aircraft that the FAA is evaluating for type certification are eVTOL designs.

The Slovakian company says it is on track to achieve EASA CS-23 type certification by the end of 2023.

The company says an additional $240 million raised from new and existing investors is sufficient to complete type certification of its VoloCity eVTOL aircraft.

The privately owned German company says that its B5 aircraft can be certified and in commercial service by the end of 2025.

The U.S. Air Force is awarding a $150,000 contract to see if use of a LiquidPiston rotary engine in a hybrid configuration can overcome limitations of current batteries used on eVTOL aircraft.

Proposed legislation would result in the Department of Transportation leading a new multi-agency working group and new federal funding to support the development of an AAM ecosystem.

The partners aim to be ready to start flight testing a regional airliner modified for hydrogen propulsion by 2023

The German company intends to recruit contractors to build most aircraft components and systems, but will retain control of overall design, technology integration and final assembly.

The company has built a prototype for its hydrogen fuel cell technology and says it can start delivering equipment to aircraft developers in 2022.

Other eVTOL aircraft developers are targeting emergency medical support services, including Jump Aero, Jaunt Air Mobility, Urban Aeronautics, EHang, and Volocopter.

The new T629 combat rotorcraft was unveiled in Turkey last week and is set to make its first flight before the end of 2021.

Winning public acceptance and not taking the multifaceted approval processes for granted will be critical to getting the infrastructure in place to support advanced air mobility services.

Fuselages for the two-seat, all-electric aircraft are being made by Composite Universal Group under contract from Bye Aerospace.

Colombia-based Varon Vehicles is developing plans to support urban air mobility infrastructure and services in various Latin American cities.

NASA is also about to start high-voltage functional ground-testing on its X-57 electric aircraft technology demonstrator.

The unmanned Phoenix PT aircraft will run on liquid hydrogen and has been built entirely from carbon fiber composites.

The vehicle will be able to drive up to around 800 miles or fly just over 300 miles and then drive another 100 or so miles on one tank of gas.

EHang claims to have made more than 10,000 test flights with the EH216 model, which it has indicated could complete Chinese type certification in 2021.