by Nikos Chatzis | 14 Dec, 2022 | Advanced Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility (AAM) (UAM), Electric Aircraft, Electric Aviation, eVTOL, Geopolitics
“…Will operators have a difficult time securing affordable insurance to operate eVTOL aircraft? Will some designs be more expensive to insure than others? There are significant safety differences in the view of some, between multirotor designs like EHang’s...
by Nikos Chatzis | 12 Dec, 2022 | Advanced Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility (AAM) (UAM), Air Mobility Initiative (AIM), eVTOL, Geopolitics
“…Airnova, a vertiport company headquartered in Bordeaux, France, has launched a €3 million (US$3.2 million) fundraising campaign to develop what could be the first vertiport network connecting all the main cities in France. The company’s founder has...
by Nikos Chatzis | 11 Dec, 2022 | Advanced Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility (AAM) (UAM), Air Mobility Initiative (AIM), eVTOL, Geopolitics, NASA
This air flow visualization shows the vortex wake for NASA’s six-passenger tiltwing concept Advanced Air Mobility vehicle in cruise or “airplane-mode.” This image reveals the complexity of the flow for a tiltwing multi-rotor configuration, where many rotors interact...
by Nikos Chatzis | 2 Oct, 2022 | Air Mobility Initiative (AIM), eVTOL, Geopolitics
“…eVTOL aircraft will soon transform the skies above, but who will fly these new and novel vehicles, what skills will they need, and how will they be trained to operate platforms that feature new levels of automation? This is the question behind a current...
by Nikos Chatzis | 20 Sep, 2022 | Electric Aviation, eVTOL, Geopolitics, UAV
“…The Bell Nexus program featured prominently in the eVTOL landscape as one of the preferred platforms for what was Uber Elevate seemed to lose some traction in the past few years. However, it would be almost unthinkable that the Textron group, as pioneers...
by Nikos Chatzis | 13 Sep, 2022 | Advanced Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility (AAM) (UAM), Air Mobility Initiative (AIM), Artificial Intelligence, Battery Technology, Electric Aviation, eVTOL, Geopolitics
“…Australian company Skyportz has identified 400 sites in the country as possible locations for vertiports once advanced air mobility (AAM) arrives in the region. Skyportz released the design for Australia’s first vertiport at the Caribbean Park business...