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uAvionix, operating at the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) Emerging Aviation Technology Center, has completed the first true Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flight in non-segregated airspace using aviation protected C-Band in the United States.

Flying cars and quantum computers have long been shorthand for "technologies of the future," but they are both here and are now and on the verge of revolutionizing the world of transportation.

Wind affects all aircraft, particularly during takeoff and landing. It's especially critical for new types of transportation. A new NASA flight campaign studying wind aims to gather information to enhance air taxi safety.

The summer of 2023 marks several aviation centennials with significant ties to Oklahoma's aeronautical history.

Four years after its launch, Skydio 2's follow-and-film capability and autonomous cinematography features like KeyFrame are still in a class all on their own.

Leading public safety drone company, SkyBound Rescuer (www.skyboundrescuerproject.com) are trialling a new fully automated drone service for Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) to identify and resolve transport issues faster. SkyBound Rescuer has installed an automated drone station in Walsall so that the public can have an enhanced transport experience across bus, train, road, and tram networks.

If we're going to get flying cars, we'll need showrooms and dealerships.

 Pyka, manufacturer of large-scale highly-automated electric aircraft for crop protection and cargo transport, is delighted to announce that it has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate its zero-emission highly-automated Pelican Spray aircraft for crop protection commercially nationwide.

The integration of Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) into smart city infrastructure is a revolutionary development that is set to redefine urban mobility from the ground to the sky.

The FAA released its plan for implementation of advanced air mobility (AAM) into the national airspace system over the next five years through the Innovate28 (I28) initiative.

Just as Superman flies into a scene and makes a big entrance and impact, AAM did the same at the air show—but AAM also demonstrated that it's not fiction, for anyone who had doubts.

The success of urban air mobility will hinge on the ability to build and operate multiple vertiports within and near cities. These would be places where passengers would embark and disembark, aircraft would be recharged, and communications facilities would send command-and-control data to the aircraft to guide them in a congested airspace.

In recent years, much of the mainstream buzz surrounding advanced air mobility (AAM) has focused on small, futuristic aircraft concepts like electric air taxis and so-called "flying cars" that affluent urbanites might use to bypass traffic jams in crowded cities. While the thought of whizzing around cities like characters in The Jetsons may captivate the public's imagination, there's another revolution brewing in the aviation industry that is far more likely to affect the lives of ordinary people: a resurgence of regional air mobility. 

The upcoming AIRTAXI World Congress in San Francisco is finally breaking the ice with what promises to be a show that will go down in history.

Saudi Arabia is driving forward its efforts to introduce commercial operations of eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) craft

Dan Sloat embodies the essence of a modern-day Renaissance Man. From a young age, an entrepreneurial spirit has been an intrinsic part of his character. As a prior United States Air Force Captain, drone pilot, novice sommelier, stand-up comedian, English teacher, filmmaker, oil painter, horse wrangler, day sailor and humanitarian, Sloat embraces new challenges and champions multi-disciplinary innovations. 

A GROUNDBREAKING development in transport is poised to reshape the way people navigate, with 'air taxis' expected to be in use in Limerick as early as 2027 for the Ryder Cup in Adare.

I'm delighted to have been featured in this month's UAS podcast, hosted by Craig Mahaney, the CEO of DronePort Network.  In our discussion, we talk about the challenges and opportunities in advanced air mobility and what industry and regulators are doing to move the adoption of this technology forward.

With the kind of leaps that the world is taking in the field of technology, the day isn't far when autonomous vehicles and aircraft will take over in day to day transportation of passengers and cargo.

Lyte Aviation is exploring the basis for hybrid-electric VTOL flights to replace ferries to connect island communities in the Seattle area with its planned 40-seat SkyBus LA-44 aircraft. The European start-up unveiled plans for the tandem tilt-wing design in March and is working toward projected type certification and service entry in 2030.

AUVSI wrapped its 2023 XPONENTIAL convention in Denver last week, bringing together thousands of attendees and hundreds of companies to discuss a path toward autonomy.

If current trends continue, seamless urban 3D transport and the Advanced Air Mobility market could soon materialise

Advanced air mobility is of increasing interest to the U.S. military, which hopes to reap the same benefits as the commercial world from having all-electric, lightweight, autonomous aircraft for shuttling cargo and people.

The age of aerial taxis is here", proclaimed the Wall Street Journal. In 1951.
Today the promise of hailing a flying cab still hovers over the horizon.
There's been a recent uplift in air taxi announcements – proposals for a flying rideshare service in Melbourne from Uber Air, then Eve and Microflite and a partnership between Wisk Aero and Queensland mayors to deliver air taxis in time for the 2032 Olympics.
Governments and industry alike promote the idea as "transformative" even "revolutionary".
But the decades-old dream of the air taxi has flown before.

No one knows what your first trip in an air taxi will look like. But here is one possible scenario.

According to a Thursday announcement, Chicago-based United Airlines has partnered up with Archer Aviation to launch the "first air taxi route in Chicago," between O'Hare Airport and Vertiport Chicago, a helicopter facility located on the near west side.

When service begins in 2025, passengers will be able to travel between O'Hare International and Vertiport Chicago in about 10 minutes, the companies said.

Whether you're already a fan of all kinds of eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing) or just curious to find out more about the so-called air taxis, San Francisco is the place to be, this year.

Aircraft will take off and land vertically, and carry a single passenger between transport hubs, says capital's airports operator

Electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles have the potential to completely change the way we travel around cities.

The Biden White House has released a policy report on its priorities for developing new aviation technologies, like electric vertical takeoff and landing planes (eVTOL), autonomous drone services, air taxis, and other forms of advanced air mobility (AAM) to preserve what it says is US leadership in the aeronautical sector, "made possible by American ingenuity and bolstered by the federal government."

In just a few years, you may be able to hop in an air taxi that'll take you 100 miles in under an hour, and the Valley is positioned to be at the forefront of this possible revolution in urban air travel.

Maker of both hybrid and entirely electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) airplanes, Horizon Aircraft has revealed research on what backers of new craft development expect in the early phases of operation, which ranks much-anticipated air taxi services surprisingly low on that list.

Flying can reduce travel times for urban and regional trips by over 50 percent, but customer "hassle factors" will ultimately determine whether people fly or drive.

Companies offer emerging technology solutions for the urban air mobility market.

The city soundscape soon may be abuzz with a variety of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft ferrying passengers and cargo across dense urban centers high above the crowded streets below.

Alauda Aeronautics has unveiled the Airspeeder Mk4 – the first crewed version of its flying racing car.

EHang's EH216 AAV Completes Japan's First Passenger Carrying Flight Demonstration

There are seven FAA designated UAS Test Sites across the United States but only one features a 50-mile uncrewed aircraft systems corridor, where various tests can be performed to determine the operational and economic viability of a given drone operation in the short and long term. Managed by the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance (NUAIR) at the Griffiss International Airport in Rome, New York, operators can fly 50 miles without visual observers. This setup enables drone testing of all different types, which is further augmented by all of the existing infrastructure within the corridor.

Ohio University has been awarded a grant to investigate using unmanned aircraft in Appalachian Ohio for applications such as delivering packages to homes and transporting patients to hospitals and travelers to airports.

There's plenty of discussion about the electric vehicle infrastructure, new public transportation systems and micro-mobility. Along with that, McKinsey analysts have found broad consumer interest in air taxis worldwide, with business travel and time savings being the strongest reasons people would move to the skies.

Known as flying cars by some, air taxis (or flying taxis)   are technically known as EVTOL (electric, vertical take off and landing) aircraft. 

"For those of you old enough to remember, this is the Jetsons. This is the dream. This is what everybody would love to do."
This cartoon is what former Boeing CEO Phil Condit used to segway into the hot topic of Urban Air Mobility vehicles (UAM). A cartoon is an apt illustration of UAMs.

Blade Urban Mobility, best known for its ridesharing helicopter service, is getting a lift from RedBird Capital Partners.

It might take a while for air taxis to take off as manufacturers ramp up production and public officials figure out how to regulate and plan for them, panelists said during a Friday discussion at the CES trade show in Las Vegas.

The last few years have brought labor shortages, supply chain issues, and geopolitical turmoil.  These shifts necessitate major changes in the way that industry thinks about operations: and even the most traditional industries are adopting new technology solutions to become more efficient and more effective.

Two is better than one, and these US startups are combining the best of both worlds to build an entirely new, one-of-a-kind airplane that will revolutionize the industry.

To say that the development of electric aircraft that can take off and land vertically (eVTOLs) has exploded over the past years wouldn't be an exaggeration. Thanks to the Vertical Flight Society (VFS) we have the numbers to back that up. And they're truly remarkable.

NASA researchers recently completed a full-scale crash test of an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) concept vehicle at the Landing and Impact Research (LandIR) facility at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.