A new report issued by analysts at Allied Market Research projects the global hybrid aircraft market will generate $1.9 billion of revenue in 2025, when several hybrid aircraft are expected to enter service.

The California-based eVTOL developer and its New Zealand partners successfully demonstrated that autonomous, uncrewed aircraft can safely integrate with regular piloted aircraft in controlled airspace.

The company says it now holds letters of intent from prospective customers covering 100 of the high-capacity drones that could be used for cargo flights or crop-spraying.

The Spanish start-up says not being first to market will prove an advantage for second-wave advanced air mobility pioneers who will have greater regulatory certainty.

The helicopter operator, which is active in offshore oil and gas support, expects to introduce the nine-passenger model to its fleet in 2028.

Flexjet plans to add up to 200 of Eve's four-passenger eVTOL aircraft to its business aviation service network on both sides of the Atlantic.

Xwing and Daedalean have agreed to share data, knowledge, and processes pertaining to AI and machine learning, which both companies are using to develop fully autonomous flight control systems.

A full-scale prototype of the UAV has already flown, with the program attracting support from U.S. Department of Defense contracts.

The western U.S. state's department of aviation wants to ensure an emergency-response time of less than eight minutes.

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The aircraft engine maker is looking for buyers for its Electrical division

The start-up plans to operate domestic flights with hydrogen-powered regional airliners.

Aramex and Emirates Post Group plan to use Dronamics's Black Swan cargo drone for same-day express deliveries, and Qatar Airways also intends to incorporate the vehicle into its cargo network.

The Germany-based company is seeking concurrent type certification for its Lilium Jet with air safety regulators in Europe and the U.S.

DARPA selected four companies to design HSVTOL X-planes

Some Western observers appear not to have grasped the different approach China is taking to advancing its air mobility revolution, prompting skepticism about EHang's apparent rapid progress in bringing autonomous eVTOL vehicles to market.

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Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is developing a high-speed, vertical-takeoff-and-landing (HSVTOL) X-plane concept for DARPA's SPRINT program.

Piasecki Aircraft Corporation has received a $37 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to fund the development of its Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) tilt-duct VTOL aircraft and hydrogen fuel cell propulsion technologies.

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