On Jan. 12, the UK-based eVTOL developer Bellwether Industries released a video of the maiden flight of a half-scale “Antelope” aircraft, which uses four ducted, embedded fans. The flight was one of eight test flights the company conducted in November in Dubai and follows a year of indoor tethered flights.
EHang announced on Dec. 23 that it had received the inaugural order for its winged VT-30 autonomous aerial vehicle, and continued to list orders made throughout January 2022.
Eve Air Mobility announced several partnerships and orders in 2022 after stating their plans to go public.
In an event in California between Dec. 13–17, a member of the US Air Force Reserve remotely piloted Palo Alto, California-based Kitty Hawk’s Heaviside eVTOL aircraft, marking the first such flight of its kind by a government entity.
On Dec. 16, Vertical Aerospace announced that it has listed on the New York Stock Exchange after completing a merger with Broadstone Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company.
Arlington, Washington-based eCTOL developer Eviation Aircraft is on the cusp of conducting the maiden flight of its nine-passenger Alice.
Electra.Aero, a developer of hybrid-electric eSTOL aircraft based in Falls Church, Virginia, announced that it has secured new funding and partnerships
In January and February 2022, Regent announced it had reached $18M in funding and had begun collaborating with manufacturer Moore Brothers Co.
Heart Aerospace completed the first test flight of a model of its ES-19 electric aircraft on Dec. 17 2021.
The Vertical Flight Society's extremely successful Transformative Vertical Flight 2022 meeting was held as the Society’s first-ever hybrid event, Jan. 25-27, 2022, in San Jose, California.
