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Airbus Embraces Flying Taxis
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said the company is “very serious” about developing flying taxis. Faury noted that the human population is projected to increasingly concentrate in urban areas. It will grow from the current 50 percent to 60 percent by 2030 and 70 percent by 2050. The European airplane maker sees this as a business…
Uber Adds Cesium Software to Its Flight Plans
Cesium (atomic number 55, Cs), the chemical element, is a soft, silvery-golden alkali metal. Cesium, the software application, is a tool flying car developers can use to help analyze and organize the global-sized volumes of geospatial 3D data eVTOLs will encounter and accumulate as they navigate our skies – urban, suburban, and rural. Built as…
UAM Community Advocates for Continued Support from US Government
Urban air mobility (UAM) is on the minds of many in the aviation community these days. And, it seems, U.S. government officials have also taken note of the enormous opportunities UAM offers the nation and the world. In a recent letter, signed by 10 leading aerospace organizations, the groups applauded the government’s recent actions in…
Jersey City on Kitty Hawk’s Radar for Air Taxi Service into NYC
Silicon Valley eVTOL developer Kitty Hawk Corporation hopes to deploy its vehicles along the Jersey City Hudson River waterfront to offer transit service into Manhattan. Kitty Hawk filed its plans with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). By submitting individual “waterward” and “landward” permit applications in August of this year, the company revealed…
Audi and Airbus Ground Their eVTOL Partnership Plans
In a statement to Automotive News Europe, Audi announced it had suspended work on its Pop.Up eVTOL air taxi it had been developing with Airbus. “At present, we are working on a new direction for our urban air mobility activities and have not yet made a decision regarding potential future products,” the company said. All…
EASA Publishes SC-VTOL
Reprinted with permission from the Vertical Flight Society, Vertiflite Magazine The Vertical Flight Society has been supporting the development of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft since 2014. One of the defining challenges for implementing eVTOL for urban air mobility (UAM) is the lack of applicable regulations. Standards organizations like ASTM International, RTCA, SAE…