Angry Birds: eVTOLs Need a Standard to Certify Vulnerabilities from Bird Strikes

By Dave Clarke | March 16, 2024

More than 90% of bird strikes occur at 3,000 feet above ground level — precisely where most eVTOLs will fly.

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In Urban Air Mobility – Especially in Urban Air Mobility – Time Is Money

By Dave Clarke | March 10, 2024

Your pax are onboard, you departed on-time. Your route was clear, weather was perfect and then – a geofence gets put up literally out of the clear blue sky. You want to minimize your snap trajectory and your trajectory but that’s easier said than done. Or it was, until a cohort of researchers from Cranfield…

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Urban Air Mobility Will Stretch Pilot Fatigue Management in New Ways

By Dave Clarke | March 3, 2024

Imagine yourself a taxi driver in New York City, London, Berlin, or Tokyo; dozens, maybe hundreds of trips in an 8-, 10-, maybe even 12-hour day. You’re doing what you can, as the movie Cabaret song said, to “earn a mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound.” Now, flash-forward to 2027 or 2030 and…

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Where California Leads, Will a UAM Nation — or the World — Follow?

By Nanci Mora | February 29, 2024

California’s nearly 40 million residents could set the gold standard for UAM.

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Urban Air Mobility Will Stretch Pilot Fatigue Management in New Ways

By Dave Clarke | March 3, 2024 |

Imagine yourself a taxi driver in New York City, London, Berlin, or Tokyo; dozens, maybe hundreds of trips in an 8-, 10-, maybe even 12-hour day. You’re doing what you can, as the movie Cabaret song said, to “earn a mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound.” Now, flash-forward to 2027 or 2030 and…

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