Research
Vertiport, Vertiport, Wherefore Shall I Integrate You?
Using a GIS-Based Approach to Suss Out Suitable Vertiport Locations
Much of the discussion surrounding the integration of urban/advanced air mobility (UAM/AAM) has focused on how best to accommodate this new transportation mode into the National Air Space (NAS) of any given nation-state (such as the United States) or a supranational union of states (such as the European Union). But, to date, little consideration has…
eVTOL Batteries: Advanced Machine Learning for AAM
Delft University Researchers Provide UAM Operators a Prognostics Tool for Battery Life
If you use your mobile phone frequently, when the remaining battery life reaches 20%, the battery indicator icon in the upper right of the screen turns red. But if you’re operating your eVTOL the way many passenger-carrying operators expect to – lots of takeoffs and landings throughout the day, ferrying passengers from airports to downtown…
The ABCs of KPIs for UAM
It Will Take an SoS Approach
A cohort of scientists have posited a theory and published a paper that effectively applies Pearson’s Law to the impending implementation and integration of urban air mobility (UAM) into a given national airspace. Pearson, a late 19th Century-early 20th Century academic who taught at King’s College, Cambridge divined, “That which is measured improves. That which is measured…
How Troublesome Will eVTOL Passengers Be by 2030?
How Rude!
Rudeness in the sky is becoming commonplace. This doesn’t bode well for the eVTOL/UAM industry, which hopes to be in full swing by 2030.
Sub-gram Helicopters
UAVs Using a Miniature Flybar Prove Small Is Beautiful and Quite Useful
Scientists are developing helicopters smaller than some gnats to aid in future rescue missions and more.
Rich Man, Poor Man
For Whom Will eVTOLs Fly – and Where?
Let’s begin with the obvious: The extremely wealthy travel by private jet or limousine. Those traveling on commercial flights are literally divided into classes: first, business, and coach. Where the topography permits, e.g., in the continental U.S. and the European Union, the working class frequently travel by car or bus. There’s been much discussion about…