
VoloCity Rolls Out and Plans for Paris
- 28 Oct 2020 10:36 PM
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Volocopter GmbH held a roll-out ceremony of its first VoloCity production aircraft on Sept. 30 at its Bruchsal, Germany, facility.
Volocopter GmbH held a roll-out ceremony of its first VoloCity production aircraft on Sept. 30 at its Bruchsal, Germany, facility.
A Sept. 25, 2020, Aviation Week cover story provided additional insights into the Joby Aviation eVTOL air taxi (see “The First Electric VTOL Unicorn: Joby Aviation,” Vertiflite, March/April 2020).
Autoflight Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. unveiled its unmanned V400 “Albatross” for logistics on Sept. 13 at the 2020 World UAV Conference held in Shenzhen, China, and also announced its eVTOL product development roadmap.
Turkish drone company Baykar flew Turkey’s first domestically produced eVTOL, the Cezeri; unmanned tethered tests were made on Sept. 11, progressing to free flights on Sept. 14–15.
On Sept. 2, startup Happy Takeoff (HTO) unveiled its hydrogen-powered Prism eVTOL concept at the VFS 3rd Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure for UAM.
On Sept. 1, Ajdovščina, Slovenia-based Pipistrel unveiled its Nuuva series of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) models.
On Aug. 26, Bristol, UK-based Vertical Aerospace revealed their new air taxi design, the VA-1X.
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), established in 1989, is the government-funded research institute for the aerospace field in The Republic of Korea.
Since the beginning of the year, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has expanded its support to advanced air mobility (AAM) developments.
On Sept. 15, 2020, NEXA Advisors LLC published a white paper, "Advanced Air Mobility Comes to Vancouver — Exciting New Mobility Options for Residents, Businesses, Indigenous Peoples, and Public Responders."