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Embraer Lays Plans for Melbourne Air Taxi Operations with Australian Partner

Embraer's new Eve subsidiary will work with Airservices Australia on an air taxi operational plan while it develops its eVTOL aircraft.
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Airbus Trials Autonomous Takeoffs and Landings For Moving Platforms

Airbus's optionally piloted vehicle recently made fully autonomous takeoff and landing approaches to and from a moving deck simulator.
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VerdeGo Aero's Hybrid-Electric Powertrain Will Drive Airflow's eSTOL Freighter

Airflow is aiming to get its short takeoff and landing, fixed-wing design into production by 2025.
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Samad Aerospace Begins Flight Testing of e-Starling Demonstrator

The company is seeking further investment in its eVTOL project and appears to be taking steps to relocate from its base in the UK.
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Chinese Government Signals Acceleration of Plans for Urban Air Mobility

The country's eVTOL aircraft developer would appear to be the most immediate beneficiary of the new government policy, given its already close cooperation with the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
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UK's Future Flight Challenges Prepares Path to Flight Demonstrations

In 2021, the Future Flight Challenge will launch a competition to select three aircraft types to participate in flight trials to be conducted in 2023.
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Uber Elevate's 2020 White Paper Spells Out Next Steps For Urban Air Mobility

The document arrives four years after Uber's first urban air mobility white paper and with speculation building that it intends to sell the Uber Elevate division.
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EMEC Delivers First Mobile Hydrogen Refueling System

ZeroAvia is developing hydrogen propulsion technology to replace fossil-fuel engines on existing aircraft.
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Ampaire's Electric EEL Demonstrator Set to Take Off in Hawaii Flight Trials

The so-called Hawai'i Bird test aircraft will be operated on market survey flights with local operator Mokulele Airlines.
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Uber Elevate Executive Describes How Safety Culture For Urban Air Mobility is Taking Root

The company's head of aviation safety says its culture rejects the "move fast and break things" stereotype of high-tech start-ups.
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Japanese Officials Back Plans For Urban Air Mobility Revolution in Osaka

The Osaka-Kansai Japan World Expo in 2025 is seen as a platform for rolling out larger-scale air mobility operations.
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Canadian Group Builds a Strong Case For Advanced Air Mobility

The new Advanced Air Mobility consortium has published detailed reports to support the economic, environmental, and social case for eVTOL aircraft operations in cities like Vancouver.
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VoltAero Gets European Green Funding For Its Hybrid Electric Cassio

The company is working to certify a family of four- to ten-seat fixed-wing aircraft by early 2023 .
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Energy Group EDP Backs Embraer's Plans For Electric Aircraft

The Brazilian aircraft manufacturer's new partnership with Portugal-based ENG builds on its 2019 alliance with WEG.
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Lilium Mines Silicon Valley for New CFO

The appointment of a San Francisco-based CFO comes two weeks after Lilium announced expansion plans in the U.S.
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XTI, VerdeGo Aero Partner On Smaller Cargo TriFan

Hybrid-electric propulsion specialist VerdeGo Aero is partnering with XTI Aircraft to create the TriFan 200, a smaller version of XTI’s currently-under-development TriFan 600 VTOL passenger aircraft.
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FAA Seeks Input on Special Conditions to Certify MagniX Electric Propulsion Systems

The company already has two applications for the systems.
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Paris Officials Start Selecting Partners For Urban Air Mobility Trials

Choose Paris Region intends to name the partners for its UAM project in mid-December 2020.
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Business Aviation Investor Turns His Attention To Urban AIr Mobility

Zanite Acquisition is set to complete a $200 million IPO and is backed by Kenneth Ricci and Steven Rosen.
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Hyundai S-A1 Remains on Track for 2028, U.S. Boss Tells Car Industry

Hyundai has formed several partnerships in its quest to enter the urban air mobility market and expects its first vehicle to enter service this decade.
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