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.
Col Don "Stryker" Haley and Dr. Kent Halverson will join us at WATS 2023 to discuss the training challenges that will play a crucial role in the success of eVTOL, as the new market gathers momentum and money.
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.
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.
Joby Aviation has begun the final assembly of what is believed to be the world’s first company-conforming electric, vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Joby Aviation, Inc. has completed the second of five stages required by the Federal Aviation Administration to certify its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft for commercial passenger use.
FAA Acting Administrator, Billy Nolen, and Director of Certification, Lirio Liu, along with others from the FAA visited Archer Headquarters recently as the company seeks to certify its Midnight electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the Korea Office of Civil Aviation agreed to partner on future Advanced Air Mobility aircraft development and operations.
The XR Association has worked closely with Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester’s staff to draft H.R. 9674: Immersive Technology for the American Workforce Act of 2022, which was introduced to the House of Representatives in December.
AIR reached this milestone five months after completing successful hover flight testing, keeping it on track to deliver the first batch of its inaugural eVTOL, AIR ONE, for personal ownership in late 2024.