AAM_Tech_Developments

Singapore-headquartered H3 plans to incorporate Hylium’s LH2 tanks into the two propulsion nacelles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The government has directed the Swedish Transport Administration to make targeted investments to help develop and test technology to electrify aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The model tested in TsAGI’s low-speed tunnel shows significant design changes from concept images previously released by Bartini.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The 11-blade propeller has been flown on MT’s Piper Cheyenne testbed, fitted to one of the aircraft’s two Pratt & Whitney PT6A turboprops.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Vertical Aerospace has completed initial tethered hover testing of a full-scale demonstrator for its VX4 electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Fast Cloud features a silver saucer-shaped balloon, with an uncrewed aircraft system slung underneath it.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Aviation is assuming a leading role in fuel cell technology development.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The so-called swing test involved a representative six-seat vehicle in a lift-plus-cruise configuration.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Aska has debuted a full-scale prototype of its A5 drive-and-fly electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
With locations in Singapore, Toulouse and Austin, Texas, H3 is developing hydrogen-electric propulsion systems to help decarbonize aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Propulsion pioneer MagniX prepares to test the final design iteration of its electric engines.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Communication and sensor systems usually run independently.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
Amazon started drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, and College Station, Texas, on Dec. 22.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The design has 12 electric lift fans embedded in the wing and four in the canard foreplane.
Advanced_Air_Mobility_departments

By Graham Warwick
Maeve Aerospace plans to develop a 44-seat electric regional airliner with a design range of 300 nm.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
Israeli startup AIR has completed the first successful transition of its full-scale technology prototype from hover to cruise.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
The ground tests are of the hybrid-electric propulsion system that will power the modified De Havilland Dash 8-100 flight demonstrator starting in 2024.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Dante was founded in 2018 and regional airline Air Nostrum and low-cost carrier Volotea have together become the startup’s first strategic investor.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup VerdeGo Aero is to test its hybrid-electric powerplant running on 100% sustainable aviation fuel.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
The four-year agreement helps the European Commission’s Clean Aviation public-private partnership materialize.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
H3 Dynamics has partnered with Carbonix to develop hydrogen fuel cell-powered small vertical takeoff and landing UAVs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
A coalition of 15 aviation firms representing the AAM sector is urging the Biden administration to prioritize development of zero-emissions aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Rotor Technologies’ autonomous prototype Birdy McBirdface made its first flight on Dec. 2 from an FAA UAV test site in New York.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Aura is building a nationwide safety-critical network for command-and-control communications with uncrewed aircraft systems.
Connected Aerospace

By Garrett Reim
Drone Express, a drone cargo delivery startup, plans to begin manufacturing a new version of its multicopter drone that will use Microsoft's AI software.
Advanced Air Mobility