by Nikos Chatzis | 16 Oct, 2021 | Advanced Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility (AAM) (UAM), Aviation Technology, Battery Technology, Drones' Technology Management, Electric Aircraft, Geopolitics
“…Mynaric and H3 HATS announced the successful start of a joint demonstration campaign to showcase laser communication capabilities for high-altitude long endurance aircraft using industrialized optical communications terminals. Initial flights of the...
by Nikos Chatzis | 15 Oct, 2021 | Advanced Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility (AAM) (UAM), Drones' Technology Management, Geopolitics
“…EHang Holdings Limited announced that it will collaborate with the Spanish National Police to explore potential use cases for AAVs in emergency and security missions. At the Press Day of Expodronica at World Air Traffic Management Congress, EHang made...
by Nikos Chatzis | 14 Oct, 2021 | Advanced Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility (AAM) (UAM), Battery Technology, Drones' Technology Management, Electric Aircraft, Geopolitics, NASA
“…For years now we have been hearing about the promise of a different kind of air transportation, Urban Air Mobility (UAM) or Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), as NASA likes to call it. Most, if not all designs, we have seen so far are purely electric in what...
by Nikos Chatzis | 13 Oct, 2021 | Advanced Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility (AAM) (UAM), Drones' Technology Management, Electric Aircraft, Geopolitics
“…Volocopter’s electric heavy-lift drone VoloDrone conducted its first public flight yesterday at ITS Hamburg 2021. Together with the international logistics leader DB Schenker, Volocopter, the pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), demonstrated VoloDrone’s...
by Nikos Chatzis | 12 Oct, 2021 | Advanced Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility (AAM) (UAM), Airbus, Aviation Technology, Geopolitics
“…Achieved 36 days of stratospheric flight, across two 2021 flights, proving Zephyr’s status as the only HAPS able to perform at length in the stratosphere · Set a new world record for absolute altitude for this class of UAS at 76,100ft....
by Nikos Chatzis | 11 Oct, 2021 | Advanced Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility (AAM) (UAM), Drones' Technology Management, Geopolitics
“…Last week, FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp and the world’s largest express transportation company, in collaboration with Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI) Air, announced the completion of its first scheduled drone last-mile delivery flight...