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Dawn Zoldi, CEO and Founder, P3 Tech Consulting, announces the upcoming New Year’s Day 2025 launch of Autonomy Global. A digital hub for the latest global tech, market and regulatory updates focused on the dual-use multi-domain autonomy ecosystem, the platform will include a related newsletter and social media handles across multiple premier channels. VFS is a Media Partner.
The charitable HYSKY Society held its second annual FLYING HY symposium on Sept. 3–5, collocated with the 10th Annual Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Once again, the month of September saw numerous subject matter experts and key stakeholders gathered to discuss advanced air mobility (AAM) infrastructure. Designed to provide a platform for experts from government, industry and academia to collaborate in developing the next generation of infrastructure for the expected ecosystem of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the Vertical Flight Society’s AAM Infrastructure Workshop moved the needle a little closer to reality.
The 50th Annual European Rotorcraft Forum (ERF) took place in Marseille, France, with a record 360 in attendance from 19 countries, including 45 from the US.
For the third year in a row, VFS organized sessions on future air mobility at Airtec, “the International Fair on Aerospace, Future Air Mobility, New Space and Defence & Security.”
The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) is excited to announce the Design-Build-Vertical Flight (DBVF) 2024-2025 Student Competition Request for Proposal (RFP) is now online at www.vtol.org/fly.
VFS hosted its annual EAS, featuring talks by leaders from across the global AAM community.
This summer, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aircraft Certification Service’s Policy and Standards Division (AIR-600) released two documents for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Because the FAA changed course in May 2022 — turning away from its anticipated plan to certificate winged eVTOL aircraft as Part 23 airplanes with special conditions for vertical flight (see “FAA Changes Course on eVTOL Certification,” Vertiflite, July/Aug 2022) — the agency is working on creating the necessary regulations to certificate both winged and wingless eVTOL aircraft.
Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) founder Paul Poberezny used to say about the AirVenture fly-in in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, “You come for the airplanes, but you stay for the people.”
On Nov. 12, Elroy Air set an aviation milestone when it flew the world’s first turbogenerator-powered hybridelectric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the Chaparral C1 prototype, the company said in a press release. Utilizing both its turbogenerator system and highpower batteries, the Chaparral C1 took off vertically and flew for 57 seconds at its test flight facility in Byron, California.
