Here’s our roundup of recent news on battery-electric, hybrid-electric and hydrogen-electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) and electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft for advanced air mobility (AAM) applications.
On Feb. 6–8, the Vertical Flight Society hosted its Transformative Vertical Flight (TVF) 2024 meeting in Santa Clara, California.
On Jan. 25, NASA announced that it had conducted a series of flight tests designed to evaluate the pilotless flight systems expected in future passenger-carrying eVTOL aircraft.
Horizon Aircraft announced on Jan. 16 that JetSetGo, a charter aviation services firm in India, intends to purchase 50 Cavorite X7, with a possible additional order of 50 aircraft.
Spanish eVTOL aircraft developer Crisalion Mobility (formerly Umiles Next) announced on Jan. 10 that it was selected by CDTI Innovación and Cuyam (Grupo Valdemira) for a total investment of €5.4M ($5.9M).
On Jan. 9, SkyDrive announced that it had secured an unspecified amount of additional funding from Suzuki for its Series C funding round, resulting in the allotment of new shares to Suzuki.
XPeng AeroHT unveiled its Land Aircraft Carrier at this year’s CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show), which ran Jan. 7–10 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
On Dec. 20, AIR announced its participation in the US Air Force’s AFWERX Agility Prime program.
On Jan. 25, in San Leandro, California, MightyFly unveiled its latest iteration of the Cento, an autonomous, heavy-lift hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) prototype air cargo drone.
On Jan. 17, Sirius Aviation AG unveiled its hydrogen-electric, ducted-fan propulsion system in a private ceremony at Payerne Airport, Switzerland.
