Forget that most major eVTOL OEMs are not eyeing their first round of operational flights until about 2025. An all-hands effort of government and industry stakeholders is gaining momentum to establish the training organizations that will prepare pilots and maintainers to begin this next chapter of aerospace industry history.
AutoFlight has achieved the world’s longest eVTOL flight in history on its debut of the Generation 4 model, with distance of 250KM / 155 miles on a single charge of the aircraft’s lithium-ion batteries.
The University of Waterloo was awarded nearly $10 million in federal funding to rebuild Canada's pandemic-battered aeronautics sector and position it for a more sustainable future.
The European Union Aviation Safety Authority and Japan Civil Aviation Bureau have accepted Volocopter’s application process for concurrent type certification (TC) of the fully electric VoloCity aircraft to fly commercially in Japan.
Reliable Robotics, a provider of safety-enhancing aviation technologies, celebrated the opening of a new engineering and development center at its headquarters with Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, top local elected officials, and representatives from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Federal Aviation Administration.
Joby Aviation, Inc. is beginning testing at the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC), the world’s largest wind tunnel facility, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
The General Authority of Civil Aviation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and CAA International, part of the UK CAA, have signed a regulator-to-regulator partnership to assess and enhance Saudi Arabia’s aviation safety regulatory frameworks in line with global best-practice.