Fall is aviation conference season in Canada and an opportunity for professionals to learn about the latest industry developments and to plan collaboration before the winter snow. In October–November, the author attended six events in the provinces of British Columbia and Ontario, providing excellent insights into current and future vertical flight operations.
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.
Mobility is about the movement of people and things, and a decisive metric for any vehicle is its operating range for a single trip on its organic, stored energy.
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.
Considered to be one of the largest events ever held by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), its first Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Symposium is being touted as a resounding success by everyone involved.
In the past few months, several of the leading developers of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft have found continued success in striving for their vision for advanced air mobility (AAM), but other companies were not so fortunate.
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.
Here’s the Nov/Dec 2024 roundup of recent news on battery-electric, hybrid-electric and hydrogen-electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) and short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft for advanced air mobility (AAM) applications.
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.”
