AIR Unveils Cargo eVTOL Version
- 31 Aug 2024 06:04 AM
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On June 18, AIR VEV Ltd. unveiled a concept drawing (shown) of the AIR ONE Cargo, a logistics-focused version of its AIR ONE personal eVTOL aircraft.
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Electric CTOL/STOL News, Sept/Oct 2024
- 31 Aug 2024 02:59 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 electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft for advanced air mobility (AAM) applications.
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.
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.”
Coming to Terms: Digital Trail
- 28 Aug 2024 12:42 PM
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As technology has enabled affordable digitization, the capability and application of aviation modeling and simulation has exploded. It has evolved from its origins in complex aerospace products to everyday consumer goods. The concepts of “digital twin” and “digital thread” have also been developing and are being deployed across product development and manufacturing to leverage this digital data, improving the products and the processes for increased efficiencies and reduced costs.
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.
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.
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.
Unither Bioelectronics and Robinson Helicopter Partner on Hydrogen
- 26 Aug 2024 11:37 AM
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Dr. Martine Rothblatt, founder and CEO of United Therapeutics (UT), has been one of the visionary drivers of the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft revolution since conceiving of a zero-emissions aerial transplant organ delivery system almost a decade ago.
The Vertical Flight Society Announces RFP Release - 42nd Annual Student Design Competition
- 19 Aug 2024 09:45 AM
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The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) today announces the release of the 42nd Annual Student Design Competition (SDC) Request for Proposal. The annual SDC sponsorship rotates between Airbus, Bell, Boeing, Leonardo, Sikorsky and the US Army Research Lab.
