Commercial Safran Wants to Get You Inside an Air Taxi, But Isn't Sure Whose Yet Safran designing cabins for Uber air taxis is a bit of an unusual arrangement because Uber Elevate is not in the business of manufacturing aircraft.…
Commercial Here Are the eVTOL Aircraft Concepts On Display at Uber Elevate The third annual Uber Elevate summit is taking place this week in Washington, D.C., and the rideshare giant and its partners are using the opportunity…
Commercial New Future Transportation Unveils ‘Drive-Fly’ eVTOL Concept It’s the first eVTOL vehicle concept that will be able to both drive on the road and fly as an aircraft, according to New Future…
Military Sikorsky To Build First Six Production VH-92A Presidential Helos Under $542 Million Contract Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky has received a $542 million Navy contract to build six low-rate initial production VH-92A presidential helicopters as part of the Marine Corps'…
Commercial Uber Adds Jaunt As Sixth eVTOL Vehicle Manufacturing Partner Uber Elevate has named Jaunt Air Mobility its sixth manufacturing partner for urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles. Joining Bell, Embraer-X, Boeing's Aurora Flight Sciences, Pipistrel…
Commercial Honeywell and Denso Collaborate on Electric and Hybrid Powertrains for UAM Honeywell will partner with Japanese automotive manufacturer Denso to develop hybrid-electric and electric powertrains, with an emphasis on the growing urban air mobility (UAM) market,…
Commercial Air Canada Makes Deal to Offer Drone Cargo Services Air Canada is embracing commercial drone delivery: The operator reached an agreement with Drone Delivery Canada to sell the latter's services through its cargo arm.…
Commercial Getting BVLOS off the Ground with 91.113 The FAA has been trying to streamline drone processes: Low-altitude authorization and notification capability speeds up airspace applications. May's updated guidance removes exceptions for hobby…
Commercial Uber To Launch Helicopter Transit Service in New York While Uber continues positioning for a future filled with air taxis, the ride-share giant's Elevate arm is launching something more tailored to the present: Uber…
Military Aerospace And Defense Industry's Economic Output Shows Solid Growth In 2018, AIA Says The U.S. aerospace and defense industry showed solid growth in 2018, contributing $929 billion in economic output, up 7 percent from $865 billion in 2017,…
Commercial FAA Approves Flight Testing of Amazon's New Fully Electric Delivery Drone Amazon plans to launch Prime Air delivery in the next few months, using a new electrically powered vertical-takeoff-and-landing drone design unveiled Wednesday. The company’s latest…