Japan’s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of “flying car” projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard. The vehicle looked likeContinue Reading
Quantum Air announced plans to launch what it’s calling a world’s first — an air taxi service using a fleet of 26 all-electric flying taxis to shuttle passengers between majorContinue Reading
Toyota, the company that refuses to take battery electric cars seriously, has invested $394 million in Joby Aviation, an electric air taxi service based in California. The money was partContinue Reading
Bye Aerospace is an extremely busy electric aviation company developing the future of our urban air mobility (UAM) world. It has two electric airplanes (eCTOL) and is working on an electricContinue Reading
Airspeeder, which is the name of the planned racing series backed by Australian startup Alauda Racing-a radical new airborne motorsport for the 21st century-the new urban air mobility (UAM) machineContinue Reading
It might run counter to what most believe, but electric vertical takeoff & landing (eVTOL) aircraft could be better for our environment than the congested wheeled mess we have onContinue Reading
Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, is a global helicopter leader and no stranger to the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) world. It had announced the Bell Nexus, a hybrid-electricContinue Reading
Long being a stuff of science fiction, aviation and technology leaders are working to make electric-powered flying taxis a reality, including Airbus, U.S. ride- sharing firm Uber, BlackFly and aContinue Reading
