Category Archives: Urban Air Mobility

Skyports and Hanwha Systems Team on AAM Capabilities

Global smart technologies company, Hanwha Systems (CEO Kim Youn Chul Kim), and Skyports, the UK based advanced air mobility (AAM) infrastructure provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to foster air mobility projects that will include collaboration in areas such as infrastructure, flight services and a mobility platform. Continue reading

Ireland to Get Passenger and Cargo Vertiport

Skyports cargo drone port

SkyportsFuture Mobility Campus IrelandAvtrain and Shannon Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish Ireland’s first passenger and cargo vertiport. The partnership will work towards launching an operational vertiport at Shannon’s FMCI campus in 2022, thereby encouraging participation and investment in Ireland’s Advanced Aerial Mobility (AAM) industry. Continue reading

ANRA Wins NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility Project

ANRA Technologies announced that it has won NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate National Campaign 2 for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) for Community Planning and Integration activities to address key safety and integration barriers together with FlyOhio,  a collaboration of public, private and academic institutions led by DriveOhio’s advanced air mobility (AAM) group.

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NASA to Help Local Governments Plan for Advanced Air Mobility

An idea for a future air taxi hovers over a municipal vertiport in this NASA illustration

Five state and local government entities have signed agreements with NASA’s aeronautical innovators to work together in considering how emerging cargo-carrying drone and passenger-carrying air taxi services can best be included in their civic transportation plans. Continue reading

Lilium SPACS Deal Valued at $3BN – Reveals 7-Seater eVTOL Jet

Lilium GmbH has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with Qell Acquisition Corp., a publicly listed special purpose acquisition company. Qell, led by Barry Engle, a former president of General Motors North America, is focused on developing next-generation, sustainable mobility. Continue reading

USAF Helps Metro Hop Test eSTOL Active Landing Gear

Metro Hop has the green light from the United States Air Force Agility Prime program to test its patent pending Active Landing Gear. This unique landing gear allows Metro Hop’s all-electric, short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft to fly up to 250 mph with substantial payloads, while operating nearly silently out of small spaces. Continue reading