Posts by Nanci Mora
A US$260 Billion Global Drone Market by 2033?
The drone market will experience astronomical growth between now and 2033.
Where California Leads, Will a UAM Nation — or the World — Follow?
California’s nearly 40 million residents could set the gold standard for UAM.
Winds of Change – A Proposal to Reconstruct Wind Flows for Urban Air Mobility
Predicting wind flows for UAM is a challenge to the safe integration of uncrewed aircraft systems into the national airspace. One researcher proposes a solution using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Reynolds-average Navier Stokes (RANS) model with current real-world observation.
Does the Public Really Want Air Taxis?
People have wildly different views on the future of urban air mobility (UAM). Policymakers and transport operators need to pay attention.
A Drone Militaries Can Use to Seek and Destroy or Seek and Return
Costa Mesa, California-based Anduril Industries has literally and figuratively launched its boomerang drone bomb. Equipped with an autonomous, artificial intelligence (AI) “brain,” the Roadrunner UAV is capable of taking down a moving target midair and destroying itself on impact. Should the mission not achieve its objective, Roadrunner will turn itself around and land itself nose-up…