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AAM Infrastructure Workshop 2024

AAM Infrastructure Workshop 2024

  • 18 Nov 2024 01:26 PM
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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.

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ERF Turns 50 in Marseilles

ERF Turns 50 in Marseilles

  • 18 Nov 2024 05:13 AM
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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.

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VFS Showcases Future Flight at Airtec 2024

VFS Showcases Future Flight at Airtec 2024

  • 12 Nov 2024 12:15 PM
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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.”

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Press Release: Vertical Flight Society Announces RFP for its 2024–2025 Student Drone Competition

Press Release: Vertical Flight Society Announces RFP for its 2024–2025 Student Drone Competition

  • 08 Oct 2024 08:56 AM
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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.

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18th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium Was a Great Success

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.

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Washington Report, Sept/Oct 2024

Washington Report, Sept/Oct 2024

  • 29 Aug 2024 01:41 PM
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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.

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Highlights from AirVenture 2024

Highlights from AirVenture 2024

  • 29 Aug 2024 11:15 AM
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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.”

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Elroy Air Tackles Cargo Delivery

Elroy Air Tackles Cargo Delivery

  • 28 Aug 2024 12:00 PM
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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.

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Press Release: Vertical Flight Society Announces 8th Advanced Air Mobility Infrastructure Workshop

Press Release: Vertical Flight Society Announces 8th Advanced Air Mobility Infrastructure Workshop

  • 28 Aug 2024 10:17 AM
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On Sept. 17-18, 2024, the Vertical Flight Society (VFS) is hosting its 8th Workshop on Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Infrastructure at the US Navy Memorial Visitor Center in downtown Washington, DC. The workshop is focused on understanding and developing infrastructure to support electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and is being held in support of the efforts by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and industry to develop eVTOL vertiports.

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ERC Emerges from Stealth

ERC Emerges from Stealth

  • 26 Aug 2024 12:58 PM
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Founded in 2019, ERC System GmbH is based in Ottobrunn, Germany, just outside of Munich. Although the company has been a VFS corporate member since just after it was founded, it came out of stealth mode with an unveiling of its full-scale, full-mass prototype on July 3, 2024. The company is focused on developing and certifying an emergency medical service (EMS) electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, though initially targeting patient transfers rather than roadside pickups.

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