Oct 9, 2025 | Aerial Vehicles, Featured
With electric air taxi services on the horizon, operators are already flying in to secure landing sites in Los Angeles. Traffic-dodging aerial hops across big cities could happen as soon as next year, pending approval by the Federal Aviation Administration, and one of...
Sep 30, 2025 | Aerial Vehicles, Hydrogen
Conflux Technology just announced that the company will contribute to Airbus’ ZEROe project by developing an advanced heat exchanger for hydrogen-electric propulsion systems using additive manufacturing. The heat exchanger is crucial for thermal regulation within...
Sep 18, 2025 | Aerial Vehicles, Electric Vehicles
Self-driving cars are quickly spreading across the country — could flying cars be next? Alef, based in San Mateo, California, has secured agreements with two Silicon Valley airports to test the world’s first flying car that can take off vertically from...
Sep 9, 2025 | Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles
The shift towards unmanned planes is driven mainly by cost efficiency and the need to address pilot shortage issues. Operating unmanned planes can significantly reduce labor costs, and they can also help mitigate the risk of human error, which is a leading cause of...
Sep 4, 2025 | Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, First Responders
The California state fire agency is partnering with rotorcraft manufacturer Sikorsky to explore how autonomous vertical-lift solutions can improve wildfire response. Under a five-year initiative announced on 3 September, Sikorsky and CalFire plan to test the...
Sep 4, 2025 | Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles
Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi developer Joby Aviation has now logged thousands of autonomous flight miles as it seeks to field a self-flying aircraft. The company on Wednesday revealed it participated in the Defense Department’s Resolute...
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