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Supercharged: Do Your eVTOL Batteries Have What It Takes – to Land Safely?

A novel approach to battery capacity testing and management to yield better performance and safer operations for eVTOL operations.

Call It K-UAM

Incheon’s mayor, Jeong-bok Yoo, is spearheading an initiative to prepare, adapt, and integrate urban air mobility into the fabric of this metropolis of roughly 3 million people. The city has published the Advanced Air Mobility Concept of Operations for Incheon Metropolitan City. The 46-page pamphlet lays out the city’s vision to bring UAM online by…

The Right Stuff: Manufacturing a UAV Sandwich

“… composite materials were optimal to build a lightweght, low-altitude endurance (LALE) hybrid VTOL UAV.”

UTM for UAM: Avoiding an eVTOL carmaggedon in the sky

When our eVTOLs, crewed or uncrewed, take to the urban skies in our eVTOLs, it won’t be Tinkerbell our instruments will be looking to avoid hitting. NASA’s February 2024 report, “Computing Proximity to Threat Along Uncertain Trajectory to Support Urban Air Mobility,” identifies the complex, challenging environment that aircraft operators, urban traffic management (UTM) system…

6 Things the State of Illinois Needs to Do to Advance AAM

Home to nearly 9,000,000 people, metropolitan Chicago is, theoretically, an urban air mobility (UAM) air taxi operator’s dream. Or at least it would be, were it not for Chicago’s brutally cold winters. Winter temperatures average at, or just above, freezing during the day and -5°C (about 20-25°F) at night. And, then there’s the wind. In…

A US$260 Billion Global Drone Market by 2033?

The drone market will experience astronomical growth between now and 2033.

Value Proposition: How Much Will the eVTOL Market Be Worth Around 2030?

The eVTOL market could be worth anywhere between US$11.5 billion and US$41 billion.

Urban Air Mobility Will Stretch Pilot Fatigue Management in New Ways

Imagine yourself a taxi driver in New York City, London, Berlin, or Tokyo; dozens, maybe hundreds of trips in an 8-, 10-, maybe even 12-hour day. You’re doing what you can, as the movie Cabaret song said, to “earn a mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound.” Now, flash-forward to 2027 or 2030 and…

Where California Leads, Will a UAM Nation Follow?

Where California Leads, Will a UAM Nation Follow? By Nanci Mora With nearly 40 million people (13 million of them in metropolitan Los Angeles, 3 million+ in San Diego, and approximately 2.5 million in the San Francisco Bay Area) covering 160,000+ square miles (roughly 423,000 square kilometers), the state is an ideal sandbox for the…