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Audi Puts Hold on Airbus Pop.Up

04 Nov 2019 01:52 PM
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According to Automotive News Europe on Oct. 14, Audi has stopped work on the Pop.Up multi-modal eVTOL concept — which consists of an electric automotive chassis, a detachable people-pod, and an autonomous quad copter propulsion system — that its subsidiary Ital design had been developing with Airbus. In a statement, Audi said: “We believe it will be a very long time before an air taxi can be serially produced that does not require passengers to change vehicles. In the modular concept of Pop.Up, we were working on a solution with the highest complexity.”

EHang Delivers

04 Nov 2019 01:49 PM
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Chinese drone maker EHang delivered the first batch of “passenger grade” EHang 216 autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) in June, followed by a second batch in October. The company says these aircraft have now reached customers in Asia, Europe and North America.

Volocopter Gains VoloCity and Velocity

04 Nov 2019 12:48 PM
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On Aug. 21, Volocopter revealed its fourth-generation electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) design, the VoloCity, intended to be its first production aircraft. The company says that the VoloCity has been designed to meet the safety standards specified by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) SC-VTOL regulation (see www.eVTOL.news/ EASA) and incorporates user feedback, as well as test data from all previous Volocopter generations, including more than 1,000 test flights.

Inspiring Students with UAM

04 Nov 2019 12:35 PM
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Whether electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft will soon produce clean, quiet, autonomous air taxis for urban air mobility (UAM) is uncertain, but Dr. Juergen Rauleder says the drive to develop such aircraft is inspiring aerospace engineering students — about half of his class from Germany and the other half from across Europe — like nothing since the Space Race of the 1960s.

Boeing Moves Forward With CAV

04 Nov 2019 12:31 PM
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On Oct. 3, Boeing NeXt announced that it had flown its Cargo Air Vehicle demonstrator outdoors up to 20 kt (37 km/h). Since its first outdoor flight in February, Boeing has completed more than 90 outdoor flight tests.

Kitty Hawk Reveals Heaviside

04 Nov 2019 12:30 PM
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On Oct. 3, Mountain View, California-based Kitty Hawk revealed it has been secretly working for two years on a single-seat, high-performance eVTOL called Heaviside (named for the English self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist, Oliver Heaviside, 1850-1925).

SkyDrive

04 Nov 2019 12:12 PM
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Japanese flying car developer SkyDrive announced Sept. 30 that it secured $14M through third-party share issuance funding and subsidies, for a total of $18.5M raised. In addition, manned test flights will begin this year.

Boeing and Safran Fund EPS

04 Nov 2019 12:09 PM
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Boeing and Safran have invested in Electric Power Systems (EPS), a company offering a suite of safe, certifiable and lightweight energy storage products that provide high quality power for aerospace and other markets. Boeing HorizonX Ventures and Safran Corporate Ventures jointly invested in EPS during this Series A funding round they announced on Sept. 17.

Hyundai Announces UAM Division

04 Nov 2019 12:08 PM
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On Sept. 29, Hyundai Motor Group revealed that it has established an Urban Air Mobility Division and appointed Dr. Jaiwon Shin as its Executive Vice President and Head. Shin was most recently the NASA Associate Administrator for Aeronautics at NASA, where he shaped the agency’s aeronautics research and development strategy for 11 years.

USAF Talks “Flying Cars”

04 Nov 2019 12:05 PM
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On Sept. 16, Air Force Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Will Roper commented at the annual Air Force Association’s annual national convention that it was following the recent “flying car” developments of the eVTOL industry. As a result, the Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson AirForce Base is launching a new initiative called Agility Prime.

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Audi Puts Hold on Airbus Pop.Up

EHang Delivers

Volocopter Gains VoloCity and Velocity

Inspiring Students with UAM

Boeing Moves Forward With CAV

Kitty Hawk Reveals Heaviside

SkyDrive

Boeing and Safran Fund EPS

Hyundai Announces UAM Division

USAF Talks “Flying Cars”

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