#evtol — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.evshift.com/492027/50-electric-rideables-you-wont-believe-exist/ 50 Electric Rideables You Won’t Believe Exist! #50ElectricRideables #AmazingInventions #EBIKES #eFoil #ELECTRIC #ElectricBikes #ElectricMotorcycles #ElectricRideables #ElectricScooters #ElectricSkateboard #ElectricUnicycle #ElectricVehicles #EV #evtol #Exist #FLYINGCAR #FutureTechnology #FutureTransportation #FuturisticGadgets #FuturisticVehicles #HydrofoilBoard #JetsonONE #motorcycles #Rideables #TransportationTechnology #wont

The #FAA has confirmed that Electra's ultra-short take-off and landing airplane will be certified as... an #airplane. Although not surprising, it's a big deal for #Electra, which is positioning its EL9 to compete with #eVTOL aircraft. Full story in The Air Current. #aviation #electricaviation https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-development/electra-faa-g-1-certification-basis-part-23/

The #FAA has confirmed that Electra's ultra-short take-off and landing airplane will be certified as... an #airplane. Although not surprising, it's a big deal for #Electra, which is positioning its EL9 to compete with #eVTOL aircraft. Full story in The Air Current. #aviation #electricaviation https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-development/electra-faa-g-1-certification-basis-part-23/

The coming air age that wasn’t: How Igor Sikorsky provided the template for eVTOL hype

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theaircurrent.com/historical-context/coming-air-age-igor-sikorsky-evtol-hype-urban-air-mobilty/

The future of travel is closer than you think! 🚀 China's Xpeng is redefining urban mobility, aiming for full-scale deliveries of their groundbreaking "Land Aircraft Carrier" flying car by 2027. 2027. Imagine swapping rush hour traffic for an aerial commute over the city skyline.

#xpeng #flyingcar #aeroht #futureofmobility #urbanairmobility #evtol #techinnovation #chinatech #smarttransportation #futuristic #xpengx2 #aviationlover #transportationdesign #gizmodotech #instatech #2027

The future of travel is closer than you think! 🚀 China's Xpeng is redefining urban mobility, aiming for full-scale deliveries of their groundbreaking "Land Aircraft Carrier" flying car by 2027. 2027. Imagine swapping rush hour traffic for an aerial commute over the city skyline.

#xpeng #flyingcar #aeroht #futureofmobility #urbanairmobility #evtol #techinnovation #chinatech #smarttransportation #futuristic #xpengx2 #aviationlover #transportationdesign #gizmodotech #instatech #2027

Understanding U.S. eVTOL developers’ long trudge through certification

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-development/us-evtol-developers-certification-hurdles-archer-joby-beta/

Article: "Verticon 2026 draws global vertical aviation community to Atlanta"
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Vertical Plus has the March 12, 2026 article:
https://verticalmag.com/press-releases/verticon-2026-draws-global-vertical-aviation-community-to-atlanta/
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#helicopter #rotorcraft #VTOL #eVTOL #heliport

Article: "Verticon 2026 draws global vertical aviation community to Atlanta"
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Vertical Plus has the March 12, 2026 article:
https://verticalmag.com/press-releases/verticon-2026-draws-global-vertical-aviation-community-to-atlanta/
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#helicopter #rotorcraft #VTOL #eVTOL #heliport

Flying cars are coming to Texas

Archer Aviation will begin the first steps to support the launch of their Midnight aircraft by summer 2026.

https://www.keranews.org/news/2026-03-12/flying-cars-are-coming-to-texas

#Texas #FAA #ArcherAviation #FlyingCars #AirTaxis #TheJetsons #eVTOL

Flying cars are coming to Texas

Archer Aviation will begin the first steps to support the launch of their Midnight aircraft by summer 2026.

https://www.keranews.org/news/2026-03-12/flying-cars-are-coming-to-texas

#Texas #FAA #ArcherAviation #FlyingCars #AirTaxis #TheJetsons #eVTOL

Flying cars are coming to Texas

Archer Aviation will begin the first steps to support the launch of their Midnight aircraft by summer 2026.

https://www.keranews.org/news/2026-03-12/flying-cars-are-coming-to-texas

#Texas #FAA #ArcherAviation #FlyingCars #AirTaxis #TheJetsons #eVTOL

Flying cars are coming to Texas

Archer Aviation will begin the first steps to support the launch of their Midnight aircraft by summer 2026.

https://www.keranews.org/news/2026-03-12/flying-cars-are-coming-to-texas

#Texas #FAA #ArcherAviation #FlyingCars #AirTaxis #TheJetsons #eVTOL

Flying cars are coming to Texas

Archer Aviation will begin the first steps to support the launch of their Midnight aircraft by summer 2026.

https://www.keranews.org/news/2026-03-12/flying-cars-are-coming-to-texas

#Texas #FAA #ArcherAviation #FlyingCars #AirTaxis #TheJetsons #eVTOL

Uber Air wystartuje w Dubaju jeszcze w tym roku

Zamawiasz przejazd w aplikacji, wsiadasz do Uber Black, a ten zawozi Cię na lądowisko, skąd elektryczna taksówka powietrzna zabiera Cię nad zakorkowanym miastem. To już nie jest wizja z filmów science fiction. Uber i Joby Aviation oficjalnie ogłaszają start usługi Uber Air.

Projekt, o którym w Dolinie Krzemowej mówiło się od lat, wreszcie wchodzi w fazę komercyjną. Firmy Uber oraz Joby Aviation (firma specjalizuje się w projektowaniu elektrycznych statków powietrznych pionowego startu i lądowania – eVTOL) połączyły siły, by zintegrować loty pasażerskie z popularną aplikacją transportową. Pierwsi pasażerowie wzbiją się w powietrze nad Dubajem jeszcze przed końcem tego roku.

Jak to zadziała w praktyce?

Z perspektywy użytkownika proces ma być równie prosty, co zamówienie zwykłego przejazdu. Po wpisaniu celu podróży w aplikacji Uber, algorytm oceni, czy trasa kwalifikuje się do przelotu. Jeśli tak, na ekranie pojawi się opcja „Uber Air”.

Usługa ma charakter multimodalny, co oznacza, że aplikacja zepnie całą logistykę w jedną rezerwację:

• Zamówienie samochodu w standardzie Uber Black, który dowiezie pasażera na wyznaczone lądowisko (vertiport).
• Przelot elektryczną taksówką Joby.
• Odbiór z lądowiska docelowego przez kolejnego Ubera i transport pod same drzwi.

Twarde dane: 320 km/h nad miastem

Maszyny Joby Aviation to nie są drony, w których pasażer jest zdany wyłącznie na algorytmy. Za sterami każdej z nich usiądzie licencjonowany pilot, a na pokład wejdą maksymalnie cztery osoby.

Konstrukcja opiera się na sześciu wychylnych wirnikach, co pozwala na pionowy start i lądowanie (jak w helikopterze) oraz płynne przejście do lotu poziomego (jak w samolocie). Elektryczna maszyna rozpędza się do 320 km/h i oferuje zasięg na poziomie 160 kilometrów na jednym ładowaniu. Została zaprojektowana z myślą o gęstej zabudowie miejskiej, co w praktyce oznacza radykalnie obniżony poziom hałasu względem klasycznych śmigłowców.

Najpierw Dubaj, potem reszta świata

Start w Zjednoczonych Emiratach Arabskich to dopiero początek. Obie firmy współpracują ze sobą od 2019 roku, a w 2021 roku Joby przejęło cały dział Elevate należący do Ubera.

Obecnie maszyny Joby (mające za sobą już ponad 80 tysięcy kilometrów lotów testowych) znajdują się w ostatniej fazie procesu certyfikacyjnego przed amerykańską Federalną Administracją Lotnictwa (FAA). Gdy tylko zdobędą odpowiednie zgody, usługa Uber Air ma rozszerzyć się na kolejne światowe rynki, w tym Nowy Jork, Los Angeles, Wielką Brytanię oraz Japonię.

TomTom i Uber odnawiają „małżeństwo”. Mapy Holendrów mają naprawić największe bolączki przejazdów

Uber Air wystartuje w Dubaju jeszcze w tym roku

Zamawiasz przejazd w aplikacji, wsiadasz do Uber Black, a ten zawozi Cię na lądowisko, skąd elektryczna taksówka powietrzna zabiera Cię nad zakorkowanym miastem. To już nie jest wizja z filmów science fiction. Uber i Joby Aviation oficjalnie ogłaszają start usługi Uber Air.

Projekt, o którym w Dolinie Krzemowej mówiło się od lat, wreszcie wchodzi w fazę komercyjną. Firmy Uber oraz Joby Aviation (firma specjalizuje się w projektowaniu elektrycznych statków powietrznych pionowego startu i lądowania – eVTOL) połączyły siły, by zintegrować loty pasażerskie z popularną aplikacją transportową. Pierwsi pasażerowie wzbiją się w powietrze nad Dubajem jeszcze przed końcem tego roku.

Jak to zadziała w praktyce?

Z perspektywy użytkownika proces ma być równie prosty, co zamówienie zwykłego przejazdu. Po wpisaniu celu podróży w aplikacji Uber, algorytm oceni, czy trasa kwalifikuje się do przelotu. Jeśli tak, na ekranie pojawi się opcja „Uber Air”.

Usługa ma charakter multimodalny, co oznacza, że aplikacja zepnie całą logistykę w jedną rezerwację:

• Zamówienie samochodu w standardzie Uber Black, który dowiezie pasażera na wyznaczone lądowisko (vertiport).
• Przelot elektryczną taksówką Joby.
• Odbiór z lądowiska docelowego przez kolejnego Ubera i transport pod same drzwi.

Twarde dane: 320 km/h nad miastem

Maszyny Joby Aviation to nie są drony, w których pasażer jest zdany wyłącznie na algorytmy. Za sterami każdej z nich usiądzie licencjonowany pilot, a na pokład wejdą maksymalnie cztery osoby.

Konstrukcja opiera się na sześciu wychylnych wirnikach, co pozwala na pionowy start i lądowanie (jak w helikopterze) oraz płynne przejście do lotu poziomego (jak w samolocie). Elektryczna maszyna rozpędza się do 320 km/h i oferuje zasięg na poziomie 160 kilometrów na jednym ładowaniu. Została zaprojektowana z myślą o gęstej zabudowie miejskiej, co w praktyce oznacza radykalnie obniżony poziom hałasu względem klasycznych śmigłowców.

Najpierw Dubaj, potem reszta świata

Start w Zjednoczonych Emiratach Arabskich to dopiero początek. Obie firmy współpracują ze sobą od 2019 roku, a w 2021 roku Joby przejęło cały dział Elevate należący do Ubera.

Obecnie maszyny Joby (mające za sobą już ponad 80 tysięcy kilometrów lotów testowych) znajdują się w ostatniej fazie procesu certyfikacyjnego przed amerykańską Federalną Administracją Lotnictwa (FAA). Gdy tylko zdobędą odpowiednie zgody, usługa Uber Air ma rozszerzyć się na kolejne światowe rynki, w tym Nowy Jork, Los Angeles, Wielką Brytanię oraz Japonię.

TomTom i Uber odnawiają „małżeństwo”. Mapy Holendrów mają naprawić największe bolączki przejazdów

Weekly output: teens + AI chatbots, Android updates, Trump on data-center energy use, Archer + Starlink, balcony solar, customer feedback, CDA 230 + AI, Bluetooth updates

BARCELONA–It’s a treat to be able to start off a post with this dateline. This is the 13th trip that’s afforded me that opportunity and the 12th involving MWC. But this trip isn’t like the ones before it in one way; on my way across the Atlantic, my country started a war of choice because the president felt like it. The world is better without Iran’s worthless, murdering theocrat Ali Khameni, but I have little confidence in the Trump administration’s ability to do the right things for that long-suffering country.

In addition to the links you see below, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me in which I shared lessons learned from more than 10 years of booking Airbnbs.

2/24/2026: Most Teens Use AI for Homework Help. 10% Let It Do Everything, PCMag

Getting an advance copy of this new study from the Pew Research Center gave me a chance to note a new student-understudy chatbot called Einstein and quiz the CEO behind that app.

2/25/2026: Android Update Puts Gemini AI In the Driver’s Seat for Ride-Hail, Food Orders, PCMag

I have somehow become PCMag’s Android-updates guy. This report included a little testimony about Google’s call-scam-detection feature misfiring for me, an important bit of context to include in a post telling readers about Google bringing that tool to Samsung’s new Galaxy S26 series of phones.

2/25/2026: As Energy Costs Soar, Trump Pushes AI Giants to ‘Produce Their Own Electricity’, PCMag

I didn’t watch the entire State of the Union address because self-care is an important thing, but after reading about President Trump’s call for data-center operators to pay for their electricity and power infrastructure, I knew I’d have to write about that initiative.

2/27/2028: Archer Aviation Taps Starlink for Air Taxi Connectivity, PCMag

I still don’t quite get the point of adding Starlink connectivity to aircraft that won’t fly longer than 15 minutes or higher than 4,000 feet above major cities, but this was an easy post to crank out Friday morning before heading to Dulles that afternoon to start my journey to Spain.

2/28/2026: After Years of Shining in Europe, Balcony Solar Comes Out of the Dark in the US, PCMag

This story had been in the works for literally months–I took the photo you see at the top of the piece on the afternoon that I arrived in Berlin for IFA in September–but the policy picture has also changed dramatically, and for the better, over the intervening months.

2/28/2026: What’s the Best Way to Get Customer Feedback in 2026? Hint: It’s Not Email, PCMag

Two weeks after the customer-experience firm Medallia had me at its annual conference in Vegas (with my hotel covered upfront and my airfare to be reimbursed), PCMag ran my recap of what I learned there.

3/1/2026: Online Platforms Are Not Liable for What Users Post. Should That Include Gen AI?, PCMag

I spent Thursday at the Cato Institute for this enlightening conference marking the 30th anniversary of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the 1996 act that bars you from suing an online platform for something that one of its users posted.

3/1/2026: Bluetooth Is Getting an Upgrade. Here’s What It Means for Your Devices, PCMag

I took almost all of the notes for this at CES in January, but I needed more time to confirm some details and then write the post, after which its lack of a news peg left it easy to set aside for a bit.

Weekly output: teens + AI chatbots, Android updates, Trump on data-center energy use, Archer + Starlink, balcony solar, customer feedback, CDA 230 + AI, Bluetooth updates

BARCELONA–It’s a treat to be able to start off a post with this dateline. This is the 13th trip that’s afforded me that opportunity and the 12th involving MWC. But this trip isn’t like the ones before it in one way; on my way across the Atlantic, my country started a war of choice because the president felt like it. The world is better without Iran’s worthless, murdering theocrat Ali Khameni, but I have little confidence in the Trump administration’s ability to do the right things for that long-suffering country.

In addition to the links you see below, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me in which I shared lessons learned from more than 10 years of booking Airbnbs.

2/24/2026: Most Teens Use AI for Homework Help. 10% Let It Do Everything, PCMag

Getting an advance copy of this new study from the Pew Research Center gave me a chance to note a new student-understudy chatbot called Einstein and quiz the CEO behind that app.

2/25/2026: Android Update Puts Gemini AI In the Driver’s Seat for Ride-Hail, Food Orders, PCMag

I have somehow become PCMag’s Android-updates guy. This report included a little testimony about Google’s call-scam-detection feature misfiring for me, an important bit of context to include in a post telling readers about Google bringing that tool to Samsung’s new Galaxy S26 series of phones.

2/25/2026: As Energy Costs Soar, Trump Pushes AI Giants to ‘Produce Their Own Electricity’, PCMag

I didn’t watch the entire State of the Union address because self-care is an important thing, but after reading about President Trump’s call for data-center operators to pay for their electricity and power infrastructure, I knew I’d have to write about that initiative.

2/27/2028: Archer Aviation Taps Starlink for Air Taxi Connectivity, PCMag

I still don’t quite get the point of adding Starlink connectivity to aircraft that won’t fly longer than 15 minutes or higher than 4,000 feet above major cities, but this was an easy post to crank out Friday morning before heading to Dulles that afternoon to start my journey to Spain.

2/28/2026: After Years of Shining in Europe, Balcony Solar Comes Out of the Dark in the US, PCMag

This story had been in the works for literally months–I took the photo you see at the top of the piece on the afternoon that I arrived in Berlin for IFA in September–but the policy picture has also changed dramatically, and for the better, over the intervening months.

2/28/2026: What’s the Best Way to Get Customer Feedback in 2026? Hint: It’s Not Email, PCMag

Two weeks after the customer-experience firm Medallia had me at its annual conference in Vegas (with my hotel covered upfront and my airfare to be reimbursed), PCMag ran my recap of what I learned there.

3/1/2026: Online Platforms Are Not Liable for What Users Post. Should That Include Gen AI?, PCMag

I spent Thursday at the Cato Institute for this enlightening conference marking the 30th anniversary of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the 1996 act that bars you from suing an online platform for something that one of its users posted.

3/1/2026: Bluetooth Is Getting an Upgrade. Here’s What It Means for Your Devices, PCMag

I took almost all of the notes for this at CES in January, but I needed more time to confirm some details and then write the post, after which its lack of a news peg left it easy to set aside for a bit.

Newcomer ERC, now flight testing, keeps Germany’s eVTOL dreams alive

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-development/erc-germany-first-flight-evtol-lilum-volocopter-airbus/

How a Solar Impulse spinoff cleared a major battery certification hurdle

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-development/solar-impulse-h55-battery-certification-hurdle-electric-aviation/

Why Eve turned to a competitor for its eVTOL pusher motors

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theaircurrent.com/industry-strategy/eve-competitor-beta-evtol-pusher-motors/

Two companies now have CAAC approval to run fully autonomous flying taxis — not tests, not demos, real commercial operations in China. Another #Lithium & BEV inflection point. Batteries go up, demand goes vertical, and the skies just joined the EV revolution. The future is now. 🚁 ⚡🔋 #EVTOL #Disrupt

eVTOL for Everyone https://hackaday.com/2025/11/15/evtol-for-everyone/ #aerodynamic #dronehacks #quadcopter #eVTOL

eVTOL for Everyone https://hackaday.com/2025/11/15/evtol-for-everyone/ #aerodynamic #dronehacks #quadcopter #eVTOL

Vertical Aerospace unveils four- and six-seat VX4 cabin as prototype readies for transition flight tests
- By David Kaminski-Morrow

https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/vertical-shows-off-scalable-vx4-cabin-design-days-ahead-of-transition-flight-tests/165150.article
More: https://hype.aero/coverage/evtol/?story=92346524-aad1-42de-89ac-0bd5ba12e3f6
#flighttest #verticalaerospace #evtol #aviation

Vertical Aerospace unveils four- and six-seat VX4 cabin as prototype readies for transition flight tests
- By David Kaminski-Morrow

https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/vertical-shows-off-scalable-vx4-cabin-design-days-ahead-of-transition-flight-tests/165150.article
More: https://hype.aero/coverage/evtol/?story=92346524-aad1-42de-89ac-0bd5ba12e3f6
#flighttest #verticalaerospace #evtol #aviation

Volocopter eyes four eVTOL types in service by 2030 after Diamond rescue
- By Dominic Perry

https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/volocopter-targets-four-evtol-aircraft-types-in-service-by-2030-as-diamond-takeover-bears-fruit/164774.article
More: https://hype.aero/coverage/evtol/?story=e5289954-32aa-4994-8823-5b8458f779d6
#volocopter #evtol #aviation

Volocopter eyes four eVTOL types in service by 2030 after Diamond rescue
- By Dominic Perry

https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/volocopter-targets-four-evtol-aircraft-types-in-service-by-2030-as-diamond-takeover-bears-fruit/164774.article
More: https://hype.aero/coverage/evtol/?story=e5289954-32aa-4994-8823-5b8458f779d6
#volocopter #evtol #aviation

Cavorite, l’aereo che nasconde dentro le sue ali 14 eliche per il decollo verticale

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=42477

#volo #aerei #aviazione #evtol #aerotaxi #canada #invenzioni #futuro #trasporti #motori #droni #tecnologia #ingegneria #rotori #pluricottero #aerodinamica #decollo #atteraggio #innovazioni

Archer Begins Piloted Flight Testing of Midnight eVTOL Ahead of US and UAE Certification

https://www.urbanairmobilitynews.com/air-taxis/archer-announces-it-has-started-next-phase-of-evtol-midnight-flight-test-programme/
More: https://hype.aero/aviation/?story=a1ede0c0-0699-4412-886a-7535e7e20012
#flighttest #evtol #aviation

Airbus Proceeds with eVTOL Prototype Flight Testing Amid Program Hold
- By Charlotte Bailey

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/futureflight/2025-04-22/airbus-will-complete-evtol-flight-tests-despite-program-pause
More: https://hype.aero/coverage/evtol/?story=924986e9-aeb3-4aee-a8ee-cc52362df296
#evtol #flighttest #airbus #aviation

Weekly output: American Airlines WiFi, Archer Aviation eVTOL air taxis, Google display-ads antitrust violations

During one of the busier travel weeks of the year (happy Easter, everyone), it only seems right for two of my posts for clients to involve commercial aviation. Airlines also figure in my own schedule over the coming week, because Saturday night I depart for Brazil to moderate three panels at Web Summit Rio.

In addition to the posts below, I wrote one Thursday for Patreon readers about how my attitude about taking press trips–meaning, trips subsidized by the company or organization behind the event in question–has changed over the past 10 years.

4/15/2025: Free Inflight Wi-Fi (Finally) Coming to American Airlines, PCMag

AA started this week with the least-competitive WiFi pricing of any U.S. carrier, and now it has one of the most-asterisked announcements of free WiFi among its competitors.

4/17/2025: Archer Aviation, United Airlines Tease Electric Air Taxi Hops to NYC Airports, PCMag

Spending half an hour on a Teams call with Archer’s chief commercial officer Nikhil Goel yielded details left out of the the company’s press release–as well as a questionable assurance that the Trump administration’s devotion to innovation would speed the Federal Aviation Administration’s certification of its Midnight electric vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft.

4/17/2025: Google Guilty of ‘Willfully Anticompetitive Acts’ in Display-Ads Business, Court Finds, PCMag

A little over two years after I filed a post from a deli in Wallops Island, Va., about the Justice Department’s lawsuit alleging multiple antitrust violations by Google in its display-ads business, I covered Judge Leonie Brinkema holding for the plaintiffs on three of their five claims in a ruling that could lead to the forced divestiture of major parts of Google’s display-ads business. Since that business has done my own industry few favors in recent years, I don’t feel too sorry for Google about that possibility.

#AA #airTaxi #AmericanAirlines #AmericanAirlinesWiFi #ArcherAviation #bannerAds #displayAds #eVTOL #EWR #GoogleAntitrust #GoogleDisplayAds #inflightWiFi #LGA #NYC #NYCAirports #UnitedAirlines

Weekly output: American Airlines WiFi, Archer Aviation eVTOL air taxis, Google display-ads antitrust violations

During one of the busier travel weeks of the year (happy Easter, everyone), it only seems right for two of my posts for clients to involve commercial aviation. Airlines also figure in my own schedule over the coming week, because Saturday night I depart for Brazil to moderate three panels at Web Summit Rio.

In addition to the posts below, I wrote one Thursday for Patreon readers about how my attitude about taking press trips–meaning, trips subsidized by the company or organization behind the event in question–has changed over the past 10 years.

4/15/2025: Free Inflight Wi-Fi (Finally) Coming to American Airlines, PCMag

AA started this week with the least-competitive WiFi pricing of any U.S. carrier, and now it has one of the most-asterisked announcements of free WiFi among its competitors.

4/17/2025: Archer Aviation, United Airlines Tease Electric Air Taxi Hops to NYC Airports, PCMag

Spending half an hour on a Teams call with Archer’s chief commercial officer Nikhil Goel yielded details left out of the the company’s press release–as well as a questionable assurance that the Trump administration’s devotion to innovation would speed the Federal Aviation Administration’s certification of its Midnight electric vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft.

4/17/2025: Google Guilty of ‘Willfully Anticompetitive Acts’ in Display-Ads Business, Court Finds, PCMag

A little over two years after I filed a post from a deli in Wallops Island, Va., about the Justice Department’s lawsuit alleging multiple antitrust violations by Google in its display-ads business, I covered Judge Leonie Brinkema holding for the plaintiffs on three of their five claims in a ruling that could lead to the forced divestiture of major parts of Google’s display-ads business. Since that business has done my own industry few favors in recent years, I don’t feel too sorry for Google about that possibility.

#AA #airTaxi #AmericanAirlines #AmericanAirlinesWiFi #ArcherAviation #bannerAds #displayAds #eVTOL #EWR #GoogleAntitrust #GoogleDisplayAds #inflightWiFi #LGA #NYC #NYCAirports #UnitedAirlines

Attention #VTOL researchers! The @VTOLsociety's 81st Annual Forum & Technology Display is May 20–22, 2025, in Virginia Beach: www.vtol.org/forum

Check out the Forum 81 Call for Papers and submit an abstract by Oct. 21! www.vtol.org/authors

#helicopter #eVTOL #rotorcraft #aviation #avgeek #helicopters #electricVTOL #AAM

The latest #ElectricVTOL News is online! Check out updates from Archer, Beta, Eve, Joby, Lilium, Supernal, Vertical, Volocopter, Wisk and other #eVTOL, #eCTOL, #eSTOL and #hydrogen aircraft.
Newsletter link: https://mailchi.mp/evtol/evtol-news-187044

(Image: Subaru Air Mobility concept design)

Volocopter completes crewed test flight at Saint-Cyr-l’Ecole near Paris, as it provides update on future flights in city
- By Jason Pritchard

https://evtolinsights.com/2024/08/volocopter-completes-crewed-test-flight-at-saint-cyr-lecole-near-paris-as-it-provides-update-on-future-flights-in-city/
More: https://hype.aero/story/volocopter-completes-crewed-test-165032/
#volocopter #evtol #aviation

Volocopter completes crewed test flight at Saint-Cyr-l’Ecole near Paris, as it provides update on future flights in city
- By Jason Pritchard

https://evtolinsights.com/2024/08/volocopter-completes-crewed-test-flight-at-saint-cyr-lecole-near-paris-as-it-provides-update-on-future-flights-in-city/
More: https://hype.aero/story/volocopter-completes-crewed-test-165032/
#volocopter #evtol #aviation

The #FAA made an early decision to certify #eVTOLs within its existing framework of aircraft categories: airplane, powered-lift, rotorcraft. But what initially looked like a way to streamline the introduction of these novel aircraft has gotten considerably more complicated, as reflected in the debate around the powered-lift SFAR and, now, the ambiguities surrounding special class #rotorcraft. More details in my latest story for The Air Current. #aviation #evtol https://theaircurrent.com/regulation/faa-approach-evtol-certification-leaves-regulatory-gaps-multicopters/

The #FAA made an early decision to certify #eVTOLs within its existing framework of aircraft categories: airplane, powered-lift, rotorcraft. But what initially looked like a way to streamline the introduction of these novel aircraft has gotten considerably more complicated, as reflected in the debate around the powered-lift SFAR and, now, the ambiguities surrounding special class #rotorcraft. More details in my latest story for The Air Current. #aviation #evtol https://theaircurrent.com/regulation/faa-approach-evtol-certification-leaves-regulatory-gaps-multicopters/

Cargo #mobility might be a good first use case for advanced #eVTOL aircraft: https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/futureflight/2024-05-14/textron-eaviations-nexus-evtol-aircraft-could-fly-2025. We discuss how large cargo UAS could pave the way to #AAM in our #ACRP #research report 243 on #UAM at #airports: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26899/urban-air-mobility-an-airport-perspective. 🚁 #aviation #futureready

Cargo #mobility might be a good first use case for advanced #eVTOL aircraft: https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/futureflight/2024-05-14/textron-eaviations-nexus-evtol-aircraft-could-fly-2025. We discuss how large cargo UAS could pave the way to #AAM in our #ACRP #research report 243 on #UAM at #airports: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26899/urban-air-mobility-an-airport-perspective. 🚁 #aviation #futureready

Between late last Sunday night and very early Saturday morning, I clocked more than 10,000 miles in the air to cover Web Summit Rio, conduct an onstage interview at that conference, and see very little of the city outside my conference bubble. Is that why I’m feeling tired tonight? No, the gardening work I put in yesterday and today had much more to do with that.

4/15/2024: Ep 98 SmartTechCheck Podcast – Apple, NTT Research, Sony, Roku and digital privacy legislation, Mark Vena

My latest bit of podcast banter had me trying to break down the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple and the odds of Congress making any progress on a comprehensive digital-privacy bill.

4/18/2024: The fight for tech talent, Web Summit Rio

My spot on the conference schedule didn’t come up until the afternoon of the last day, when I quizzed BairesDev CEO Nacho de Marco on the event’s center stage about how that firm aims to meet the software-development demands of clients with a “nearshoring” strategy of connecting them to remote-working developers in Latin America. After a couple of days of other panel moderators telling me that they’d had trouble hearing their onstage counterparts in that arena, I was relieved to see de Marco ably field my questions, replying in NPR-length paragraphs that made my job of panel clock management easy.

4/19/2024: This Air Taxi Is Ready to Help You Skip the Gridlock (If Regulators OK a Flight Test), PCMag

This post was a sequel of sorts to one I filed from Web Summit Rio last year, when the then-co-CEO of Eve Air Mobility talked up the Embraer-backed air-taxi startup’s ambitions to provide fast, clean and reasonably affordable flights in eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft around major cities by 2026. This year, the pitch for Eve delivered by Daniel Moczydlower, CEO of Embraer’s Embraer-X innovation hub, came with a little more realism about how the company’s battery-electric planes won’t fly paying passengers anywhere until regulators green-light its plans.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/04/21/weekly-output-mark-vena-podcast-nearshoring-meets-remote-coding-eve-air-taxis/

#airTaxis #BairesDev #EveAirMobility #eVTOL #NachoDeMarco #nearshoring #Rio #RioDeJaneiro #WebSummit #WebSummitRio

Between late last Sunday night and very early Saturday morning, I clocked more than 10,000 miles in the air to cover Web Summit Rio, conduct an onstage interview at that conference, and see very little of the city outside my conference bubble. Is that why I’m feeling tired tonight? No, the gardening work I put in yesterday and today had much more to do with that.

4/15/2024: Ep 98 SmartTechCheck Podcast – Apple, NTT Research, Sony, Roku and digital privacy legislation, Mark Vena

My latest bit of podcast banter had me trying to break down the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple and the odds of Congress making any progress on a comprehensive digital-privacy bill.

4/18/2024: The fight for tech talent, Web Summit Rio

My spot on the conference schedule didn’t come up until the afternoon of the last day, when I quizzed BairesDev CEO Nacho de Marco on the event’s center stage about how that firm aims to meet the software-development demands of clients with a “nearshoring” strategy of connecting them to remote-working developers in Latin America. After a couple of days of other panel moderators telling me that they’d had trouble hearing their onstage counterparts in that arena, I was relieved to see de Marco ably field my questions, replying in NPR-length paragraphs that made my job of panel clock management easy.

4/19/2024: This Air Taxi Is Ready to Help You Skip the Gridlock (If Regulators OK a Flight Test), PCMag

This post was a sequel of sorts to one I filed from Web Summit Rio last year, when the then-co-CEO of Eve Air Mobility talked up the Embraer-backed air-taxi startup’s ambitions to provide fast, clean and reasonably affordable flights in eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft around major cities by 2026. This year, the pitch for Eve delivered by Daniel Moczydlower, CEO of Embraer’s Embraer-X innovation hub, came with a little more realism about how the company’s battery-electric planes won’t fly paying passengers anywhere until regulators green-light its plans.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/04/21/weekly-output-mark-vena-podcast-nearshoring-meets-remote-coding-eve-air-taxis/

#airTaxis #BairesDev #EveAirMobility #eVTOL #NachoDeMarco #nearshoring #Rio #RioDeJaneiro #WebSummit #WebSummitRio

Between late last Sunday night and very early Saturday morning, I clocked more than 10,000 miles in the air to cover Web Summit Rio, conduct an onstage interview at that conference, and see very little of the city outside my conference bubble. Is that why I’m feeling tired tonight? No, the gardening work I put in yesterday and today had much more to do with that.

4/15/2024: Ep 98 SmartTechCheck Podcast – Apple, NTT Research, Sony, Roku and digital privacy legislation, Mark Vena

My latest bit of podcast banter had me trying to break down the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple and the odds of Congress making any progress on a comprehensive digital-privacy bill.

4/18/2024: The fight for tech talent, Web Summit Rio

My spot on the conference schedule didn’t come up until the afternoon of the last day, when I quizzed BairesDev CEO Nacho de Marco on the event’s center stage about how that firm aims to meet the software-development demands of clients with a “nearshoring” strategy of connecting them to remote-working developers in Latin America. After a couple of days of other panel moderators telling me that they’d had trouble hearing their onstage counterparts in that arena, I was relieved to see de Marco ably field my questions, replying in NPR-length paragraphs that made my job of panel clock management easy.

4/19/2024: This Air Taxi Is Ready to Help You Skip the Gridlock (If Regulators OK a Flight Test), PCMag

This post was a sequel of sorts to one I filed from Web Summit Rio last year, when the then-co-CEO of Eve Air Mobility talked up the Embraer-backed air-taxi startup’s ambitions to provide fast, clean and reasonably affordable flights in eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft around major cities by 2026. This year, the pitch for Eve delivered by Daniel Moczydlower, CEO of Embraer’s Embraer-X innovation hub, came with a little more realism about how the company’s battery-electric planes won’t fly paying passengers anywhere until regulators green-light its plans.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/04/21/weekly-output-mark-vena-podcast-nearshoring-meets-remote-coding-eve-air-taxis/

#airTaxis #BairesDev #EveAirMobility #eVTOL #NachoDeMarco #nearshoring #Rio #RioDeJaneiro #WebSummit #WebSummitRio

Just 3 weeks to go until the world's largest and longest-running #VTOL technology conference! The Vertical Flight Society 80th Annual Forum & Technology Display is set for Montreal, May 7-9, featuring top vertical flight leaders from industry, government and militaries.

Check out the latest details on Forum80: https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=0bd0403bfc17d80346b4f2455&id=c519069945

#Helicopter #rotorcraft #drone #aam #eVTOL #VTOL #VerticalFlight #electricVTOL #RCAF #ArmyAviation

Con i suoi 40 posti e una portata di 531 km in solo un'ora, il bus volante di Kelekona promette di cambiare i trasporti urbani offrendo una nuova dimensione al concetto di mobilità. Certo, noi stiamo aspettando ancora l'auto volante, ma se la spuntasse un mezzo più collettivo?

#Innovazione #Mobilità #Urbana #Tecnologia #Trasporto #eVTOL
https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2024/03/il-bus-volante-di-kelekona-cambiera-i-trasporti-urbani-40-posti-alla-volta/

Con i suoi 40 posti e una portata di 531 km in solo un'ora, il bus volante di Kelekona promette di cambiare i trasporti urbani offrendo una nuova dimensione al concetto di mobilità. Certo, noi stiamo aspettando ancora l'auto volante, ma se la spuntasse un mezzo più collettivo?

#Innovazione #Mobilità #Urbana #Tecnologia #Trasporto #eVTOL
https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2024/03/il-bus-volante-di-kelekona-cambiera-i-trasporti-urbani-40-posti-alla-volta/

VFS has a great lineup of upcoming vertical flight events! Check them out and our deadlines for student scholarship and competitions, as well as our annual awards nominations: https://mailchi.mp/vtol/vfs-update-186832

helicopter #rotorcraft #TVF2024 #H2aero #eVTOL #AAM #electricVTOL #VFF #Forum80 #VTOL #VerticalFlight #ElectricFlight #Hydrogen #VerticalFlight #H2Flight #aviation #research #development #innovation #avgeek

While #eVTOL aircraft will not replace #helicopters, they can bring new capabilities to emergency medical services (EMS): https://www.airmedandrescue.com/latest/long-read/industry-voice-transforming-emergency-medical-services-evtols. 🚁 #aircraft #aviation #engineering #verticalflight #vertiports #vtols

While #eVTOL aircraft will not replace #helicopters, they can bring new capabilities to emergency medical services (EMS): https://www.airmedandrescue.com/latest/long-read/industry-voice-transforming-emergency-medical-services-evtols. 🚁 #aircraft #aviation #engineering #verticalflight #vertiports #vtols