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eVTOL Reference Documents and Reports
- 27 Apr 2025 12:00 PM
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The Vertical Flight Society has created a convenient new resource page that organizes years’ worth of regulations, white papers, reports and reference documents related to advanced air mobility (AA
Electric CTOL/STOL News, Jan/Feb 2025
- 07 Jan 2025 08:24 AM
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Here’s our roundup of recent news on battery-electric, hybrid-electric and hydrogen-electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) and short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft for advanced air mobility (AAM) applications.
18th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium Was a Great Success
- 10 Sep 2024 12:21 AM
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VFS hosted its annual EAS, featuring talks by leaders from across the global AAM community.
NASA Ames Highlights Vertical Flight Leaders
- 28 Jun 2024 11:42 AM
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In May, the NASA Ames Research Center held its “2023 Presidential Rank & NASA Honors Awards” ceremony, presenting 73 individual and 27 group awards to NASA employees, contractors and groups, including many NASA employees and teams working on rotorcraft, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, advanced air mobility (AAM) and planetary exploration rotorcraft.
Forum 80: Ideas Earn Their Way
- 24 Jun 2024 11:45 AM
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The Vertical Flight Society Forum in Montréal considered promising technologies to improve safety, boost performance, cut operating costs and broaden markets.
Press Release: Hirschberg Receives NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal
- 30 May 2024 01:00 AM
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The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) today announces that VFS Director of Strategy Mike Hirschberg has received the Exceptional Public Service Medal (EPSM) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Leadership Moves, May/June 2024
- 02 May 2024 10:43 AM
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Honeywell Aerospace Technologies appointed Dan Newman as the chief technology officer (CTO) of its advanced air mobility (AAM) business unit in January. Newman joined Honeywell from Boeing, where he was a Senior Technical Fellow and the Chief Engineer of Advanced Vertical Lift Research since 2012.
Washington Report, May/June 2024
- 01 May 2024 07:40 PM
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On March 8, US President Joe Biden signed legislation that temporarily extended the operating authority for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) until May 10. The bill, HR.7454, the Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024, is the third time Congress extended the FAA’s authority since September, the end of fiscal year 2023 (FY23), when the FAA’s operating authority expired.
