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The Vertical Flight Society’s TVF 2025 was held at Phoenix Convention Center on Feb. 4–6, 2025, including the 12th Electric VTOL symposium and the 11th Biennial Autonomous VTOL Technical Meeting. TVF 2025 program featured presentations by companies developing electric motors, hybrid-electric propulsion systems and hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered electric aircraft.
A number of announcements were made at the end of 2024 regarding progress by Skyports Infrastructure on creating operational vertiports.
The Vertical Flight Society (VFS), the world’s leading non-profit organization working to advance vertical flight technology, announces that the world’s longest running conference on electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft will provide comprehensive updates and insights into this exciting new sector of the global aerospace industry.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released the final Engineering Brief EB 105A on their website, with the publication date of Dec. 27, 2024.
Considered to be one of the largest events ever held by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), its first Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Symposium is being touted as a resounding success by everyone involved.
Once again, the month of September saw numerous subject matter experts and key stakeholders gathered to discuss advanced air mobility (AAM) infrastructure. Designed to provide a platform for experts from government, industry and academia to collaborate in developing the next generation of infrastructure for the expected ecosystem of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the Vertical Flight Society’s AAM Infrastructure Workshop moved the needle a little closer to reality.
On May 16, US President Joe Biden signed legislation to provide the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with its latest five-year mandate and to fund the agency for fiscal years 2024–2028, with more than $105B for the FAA and $738M for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) during those years.
As AAM aircraft near production, competing charging standards come to the fore.
The end of September found numerous industry experts, government officials and entrepreneurs from around the world in Cape May, New Jersey, participating in what some attendees declared was one of the best conferences in the burgeoning advanced air mobility (AAM) industry to date.
