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Value Proposition: How Much Will the eVTOL Market Be Worth Around 2030?
It Depends on Who You Ask
The eVTOL market could be worth anywhere between US$11.5 billion and US$41 billion.
Angry Birds: eVTOLs Need a Standard to Certify Vulnerabilities from Bird Strikes
More than 90% of bird strikes occur at 3,000 feet above ground level — precisely where most eVTOLs will fly.
In Urban Air Mobility – Especially in Urban Air Mobility – Time Is Money
Real-Time On-the-Fly Motion Planning Can Save Pilots Pax, and UAM Operators Time and Money
Your pax are onboard, you departed on-time. Your route was clear, weather was perfect and then – a geofence gets put up literally out of the clear blue sky. You want to minimize your snap trajectory and your trajectory but that’s easier said than done. Or it was, until a cohort of researchers from Cranfield…
Urban Air Mobility Will Stretch Pilot Fatigue Management in New Ways
Short-haul, multiple takeoffs and landings per day, and revolutionary, new eVTOL technologies will test pilot’s resilience in radically 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 — or the World — Follow?
Aircraft, Operating Environment, and Oh Yeah, Taxes
California’s nearly 40 million residents could set the gold standard for UAM.
How Much Noise Will a Single Rotor Make When a Single Rotor Makes Noise?
Use the NASA RVLT Conceptual Design Toolchain to Predict Best Practices
In their paper, “Best Practices for Predicting Acoustics of a Single Rotor Using the NASA RVLT Conceptual Design Toolchain” presented at the Vertical Flight Society’s 6th Decennial Aeromechanics Specialists’ Conference held in Santa Clara, California in February 2024, NASA aerospace engineers Lauren Weist, Natasha Schatzman, and Dorsa Shirazi detailed the results of their study intended…