Six keys to winning the Urban Air Mobility race
Honeywell is developing an integrated flight system that will grow to support autonomous operations.

It follows every advance in aviation, from the boom in early airliners to the frenzy over very light jets in the 1990s: a gradual retrenchment as the best-prepared companies pull ahead of the pack. Now there are signs it’s beginning to happen in the white-hot competition over urban air mobility aircraft, too.

With more than 150 companies worldwide racing to field UAM prototypes, the smartest are quietly preparing for the next phase: partnering with major aerospace suppliers that have the technology, global reach and certification expertise to make aircraft not just flyable, but viable.