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World’s First Urban Air Mobility Vertiport to Be in Coventry UK
If you thought the world’s first vertiport would be in Singapore, Japan, or South Korea, you thunk wrong. Yes, those locales are at the forefront of urban air mobility, but an announcement by UK-based Urban-Air Port (part of the Six Miles Across London Limited small initiative) to launch a vertiport by the end of 2021…
Jetson? No, Jetpack. A Different Path to UAM
While the rest of us have been focused on eVTOLs, hybrid VTOLs, and other evolving modes of urban air mobility (UAM) transport, one person – Richard Browning of Wiltshire, Salisbury, England – has been busy charting a different flight path toward UAM. He’s developed a working jetpack. As founder and chief test pilot of Gravity Industries,…
eVTOL, UAS, and Now, Another UAM Acronym: LiDAR
When the UAM revolution takes off, there will be no shortage of acronyms. There’s already eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles), UAS (unmanned aerial systems), UAM (urban air mobility). Now add one more: LiDAR. A 50-year-old technology, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology, is expected to play a key role in the development of…
Urban Air Mobility Is Coming
What to expect in 2030, 2040, and 2050
We know (Trust us, please, we know!), urban air mobility (UAM) is coming. But what’s coming, and when, and where? A lot of numbers are published, but they’re always somewhat scattershot, a projection here, a guesstimate there. So, we thought putting them all in one place – this place – might make it easier to…
U.S.A., Japan Gearing Up for Urban Air Mobility
News on the Fly: Los Angeles, Japan Airlines, Springfield, Ohio + AFWERX Lab
Angelenos have long had a love affair with their cars (take a gander at the 405 Freeway or Highway 101 any time, day or night). Imagine how they’re gonna feel about flying cars. That’s exactly what Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti did on 23 December 2020, when he announced the Urban Air Mobility Partnership between…
Game of Drones: How eVTOLs and UAS Will Change UAM and Our Lives
From Agriculture to Zoology, a World of Mobile Opportunities
While most of the general public’s attention is focused on the prospect of flying cars, (“Damn you, Jetsons!”), much of business and industry (along with the military) remain focused on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), AKA drones, and how they can contribute to an enterprise’s bottom line by taking airborne pilots, photographers, and/or videographers out of…