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Future Forward: AAM By the Numbers

The size and value of the urban air mobility market is poised to soar in the next decade.

We’re talking billions. US$30.7bn — The value of the urban air mobility market by 2031 Source Allied Market Research 30.2% — Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of urban air mobility market from 2022 to 2031. Source: Allied Market Research US$3.8bn — Value of urban air mobility market in 2023 Source: Markets and Markets US$28.5bn — Value of urban air…

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Winds of Change – A Proposal to Reconstruct Wind Flows for Urban Air Mobility

The Wind Beneath – Above, In Front of, and Behind – Your Wings. (Or Perhaps Your Rotors).

Predicting wind flows for UAM is a challenge to the safe integration of uncrewed aircraft systems into the national airspace. One researcher proposes a solution using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Reynolds-average Navier Stokes (RANS) model with current real-world observation.

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Yellow trolley in front of colorful urban homes.

Does the Public Really Want Air Taxis?

Evtols? UAVs? UAM? Tell Us How You Really Feel . . . 

People have wildly different views on the future of urban air mobility (UAM). Policymakers and transport operators need to pay attention.

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Roadrunner attack drone sitting in foreground against a dusky landscape.

A Drone Militaries Can Use to Seek and Destroy or Seek and Return

To Loiter or Not to Loiter, That Is the Munitions Question of the Day

Costa Mesa, California-based Anduril Industries has literally and figuratively launched its boomerang drone bomb. Equipped with an autonomous, artificial intelligence (AI) “brain,” the Roadrunner UAV is capable of taking down a moving target midair and destroying itself on impact. Should the mission not achieve its objective, Roadrunner will turn itself around and land itself nose-up…

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UAM: If We Build It, Will You Come? Will You Pay?

It Depends.

The technology behind air taxis may be ahead of people’s willingness to use them.

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Illustration of a future droneport.

What Is a Droneport?

Airport. √ Vertiport. √ Droneport? Stay tuned.

You’ve heard of airports. Society will soon be hearing more about droneports.

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