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Inside BETA’s first flight of its production model

By Paul Brinkmann November 21, 2024

Could this be the future of regional air travel?

By Paul Brinkmann November 13, 2024

Japan viewed as promising market for advanced air mobility

By Paul Brinkmann November 8, 2024

Electric aircraft maker Lilium holds out hope for rescue

By Paul Brinkmann November 5, 2024

Air taxi makers: FAA has given us what we need

By Paul Brinkmann November 1, 2024

Toyota’s spending on Joby seen as validating air taxis in general

By Paul Brinkmann October 15, 2024

What’s the best way to charge aircraft batteries quickly without overheating?

By Paul Brinkmann September 30, 2024

Spanish company describes its recipe for a smoother-riding, longer-range air taxi

By Paul Brinkmann September 19, 2024

U.S. Air Force researchers see hybrid-electric flight as most promising

By Paul Brinkmann September 12, 2024

Coming to parklands near you: personal air vehicles?

By Paul Brinkmann August 29, 2024

As air taxi developers burn through dollars, having a corporate owner could be helpful — but within limits

By Paul Brinkmann August 7, 2024

Contestants in this emergency response competition just learned what their aircraft must do

By Paul Brinkmann August 1, 2024

A charging network for air taxis begins to take shape in U.S.

By Paul Brinkmann July 19, 2024

Expect a lot at Farnborough — except air taxis in the sky

By Paul Brinkmann July 11, 2024

Joby describes “apps” for its coming air taxi service

By Paul Brinkmann June 21, 2024

Airport charging infrastructure seen as lagging air taxi designs

By Paul Brinkmann June 21, 2024

Archer to begin flying conventional aircraft to hone air taxi procedures

By Paul Brinkmann June 20, 2024

Boeing to grow its presence at Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach

By Paul Brinkmann June 17, 2024

Boeing’s Starliner capsule starts its crewed debut

By Paul Brinkmann June 5, 2024

DARPA, Slingshot decloak space intelligence project

By Keith Button June 5, 2024

Electra cites progress on short landings and takeoffs

By Paul Brinkmann May 30, 2024

Standard-setting underway for vertiports

By Paul Brinkmann May 29, 2024

Site visit: The air taxi developer’s ‘Disneyland’

By Paul Brinkmann May 9, 2024

Q&A: How the X-59’s pilots are getting ready

By Paul Brinkmann May 3, 2024

Embry-Riddle takes first place at AIAA’s student aircraft competition

By Paul Brinkmann April 22, 2024

For air taxis, a flap over birds

By Paul Brinkmann April 17, 2024

FAA seen as providing design flexibility for air taxi developers to cope with emergency scenarios

By Paul Brinkmann April 15, 2024

Air taxi developers vie for business in UAE

By Paul Brinkmann April 8, 2024

Managing the coming tidal wave of drones

By Paul Brinkmann March 29, 2024

Air taxis need a concept of operations, and now this city has one that could become a template

By Paul Brinkmann March 29, 2024

FAA adds “controlled emergency landing” requirement for Joby aircraft

By Paul Brinkmann March 28, 2024

Site visit: Electra’s hybrid-electric aircraft flight test center

By Paul Brinkmann March 15, 2024

Six minutes in an electric multicopter

By Paul Brinkmann March 12, 2024

Airports and fixed-base operators show signs of taking electric aircraft seriously

By Paul Brinkmann March 11, 2024

What do you call an electric aircraft that lands and takes off vertically to carry passengers around town?

By Paul Brinkmann March 1, 2024

United Nations standards group increases focus on plans for revolutionary aircraft

By Paul Brinkmann February 28, 2024

Proposal to fly these air taxis in Paris during the Olympics brings pushback

By Paul Brinkmann February 26, 2024

Lilium tweaks its Florida plan

By Paul Brinkmann February 16, 2024

This software could be a differentiator for air taxi competitors

By Paul Brinkmann February 14, 2024

Electric drones and air taxis target the logistical frustration of transporting organs for transplants

By Paul Brinkmann February 12, 2024

Researchers: Starship pad destruction could hold lessons for lunar landings

By Paul Brinkmann January 29, 2024

These low-fidelity aerodynamic tools are popular among novel aircraft designers

By Paul Brinkmann January 29, 2024

NASA, Archer collaboration aims to improve battery safety

By Paul Brinkmann January 25, 2024

How collision avoidance software for air taxis was tested over Long Island Sound

By Keith Button January 19, 2024

Here’s what it’s like to fly a novel aircraft for the first time

By Paul Brinkmann January 18, 2024

This company aims to upend what you think you know about electric flight

By Paul Brinkmann January 10, 2024

First Vulcan Centaur lifts off with ULA’s future in sight

By Ben Iannotta January 8, 2024

This air taxi developer faces stock value and funding challenges

By Paul Brinkmann December 14, 2023

Developers of small electric aircraft begin to target medical response market

By Paul Brinkmann December 13, 2023

Air taxi developers are showing interest in this island nation

By Paul Brinkmann December 8, 2023

Rolls-Royce plans its exit from the electric propulsion business

By Paul Brinkmann December 1, 2023

Lilium is confident enough in its choice of battery tech to start production of certification aircraft

By Paul Brinkmann December 1, 2023

This aircraft’s first flight reflects a difference in strategy compared to most competitors

By Paul Brinkmann November 28, 2023

Joby, Volocopter demonstrated their aircraft over the East River, but will that help win public acceptance?

By Paul Brinkmann November 17, 2023

This air taxi company believes in parachutes for safety

By Paul Brinkmann November 16, 2023

Air taxi companies begin dueling publicly over standards for charging stations

By Paul Brinkmann November 14, 2023

Airborne commuters in this region could soon have an electric option

By Paul Brinkmann November 2, 2023

A second U.S. airbase gets an all-electric air taxi for testing

By Paul Brinkmann October 26, 2023

One headwind facing urban air taxis is, well, the wind

By Paul Brinkmann October 25, 2023

Inside NASA’s long handoff of orbital research to private sector

By Cat Hofacker October 25, 2023

Here’s why you might not see those EHang air taxis outside China anytime soon

By Paul Brinkmann October 23, 2023

Hedge fund criticizes Joby Aviation’s outlook for profitability as ‘delusional’

By Paul Brinkmann October 13, 2023

The F-35B inspired this air taxi’s cockpit controls

By Paul Brinkmann October 12, 2023

NASA expands simulations for air taxi passenger experience

By Paul Brinkmann October 10, 2023

Site visit: Overair completes carbon fiber composite bonding on parts for first air taxi prototype

By Paul Brinkmann September 28, 2023

U.S. military begins testing of an electric air taxi at Edwards Air Force Base for the first time, a Joby S4 tiltrotor

By Paul Brinkmann September 26, 2023

Advanced air mobility prompts new level of U.S. military, civilian coordination

By Paul Brinkmann September 26, 2023

Electric aviation industry grapples with battery cooling

By Paul Brinkmann September 7, 2023

Vertical Aerospace traces air taxi crash to propeller blade

By Paul Brinkmann August 31, 2023

Next crew bound for International Space Station after early morning launch

By Paul Brinkmann August 26, 2023

There could be a big market for these small aircraft

By Paul Brinkmann August 24, 2023

Military contracts for AAM startups provide early cash, expertise and credibility

By Paul Brinkmann August 17, 2023

These companies think the time has come for water-capable electric aircraft

By Paul Brinkmann August 15, 2023

Antagonists in air taxi patent-infringement litigation decide to become collaborators

By Paul Brinkmann August 11, 2023

Virgin Galactic notches milestone flight

By Paul Brinkmann August 10, 2023

Vertical Aerospace’s air taxi prototype appears to crash during test in U.K without injuries

By Paul Brinkmann August 9, 2023

Deadline approaches for drone identification rule

By Paul Brinkmann August 3, 2023

U.S. Air Force plans to buy as many as six Archer air taxis for flight evaluation

By Paul Brinkmann August 1, 2023

Advanced air mobility to take on bigger role in Wisconsin air show

By Paul Brinkmann July 26, 2023

Want to hop on an electric air taxi? U.S. officials urge more attention on vertiports, community acceptance

By Aaron Karp July 24, 2023

X-57 team probes safety question that ended development without a flight

By Paul Brinkmann July 20, 2023

Is advanced air mobility facing an ‘industry killer’?

By Pat Host July 18, 2023

British company prepares to seek investor funding for 40-passenger tiltwing

By Paul Brinkmann July 13, 2023

Flying car concepts receive go ahead from FAA for test flights

By Paul Brinkmann July 10, 2023

Study points to ideas for reducing noise at the coming air taxi vertiports

By Paul Brinkmann July 10, 2023

White paper offers advice to FAA about how to ‘turbocharge’ growth of drone services

By Paul Brinkmann July 7, 2023

Former acting FAA chief explains decision to join air taxi startup Archer

By Paul Brinkmann June 15, 2023

Electra.aero unveils ‘ultra’-short takeoff and landing demonstrator aircraft

By Aaron Karp June 13, 2023

Whisper Aero reveals propulsor design and jet mockup for quiet, hybrid-electric flight

By Paul Brinkmann June 12, 2023

FAA draft rule aims to solve thorny issue of certifying pilots to fly electric air taxis and cargo aircraft

By Paul Brinkmann June 9, 2023

Wisk CEO: Shift to Boeing ownership brings advantages

By Paul Brinkmann June 7, 2023

This startup sees a need for aviation-specific batteries

By Paul Brinkmann June 6, 2023

NASA study team suggests applying artificial intelligence to trove of mystery sightings

By Natalie Jonas June 2, 2023

Is the expected culling of air mobility companies at hand? At least one analyst sees evidence it could be

By Paul Brinkmann May 26, 2023

Miniaturized avionics are starting to proliferate among drones, and air taxis are likely next

By Paul Brinkmann May 25, 2023

Whisper Aero prepares to speak up

By Paul Brinkmann May 10, 2023

FAA’s updated blueprint for air taxi services places new emphasis on cooperation with industry, other agencies