The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) announced today that the number of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft concepts being tracked in its World eVTOL
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
French media report problems with the Paris Olympics counter-UAS system
News outlet France 24 reports that the anti-drone system PARADE, developed to protect the Parisian skies throughout the July 26-September 8 Olympics and Paralympics, has performed
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INVOLI, MatrixSpace partner to launch cooperative/non-cooperative air traffic detection network
INVOLI, a provider of cooperative air traffic surveillance solutions, has announce its partnership with MatrixSpace, an expert in non-cooperative air traffic detection. “By combining INVOLI’s
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Drone flight detection company Neuron launches beta version of its sensor network
UK drone and aircraft flight detection sensor network provider Neuron – which provides an open source public network of drone detection services – has announced
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NATO’s NSPA awards first small C-UAS multinational contract – to MyDefence and DroneShield
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has approved the first Counter-small UAS (C-sUAS) procurement framework agreement in NATO’s history. According to the organisation: “The
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Developing a state-wide communications framework for eVTOLs and ground vehicles
In the United States, WSP has been working with Michigan to advance a communications framework for the state’s emerging AAM ecosystem. According to WSP Vice
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ADW 2024: “Seven EU States potentially non-compliant with U-space regulatory framework”
Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Vice-President of the Transport and Tourism Committee in the European Parliament, at the Amsterdam Drone Week this week laid out his view of
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ADW 2024: Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp ports to cooperate on drone programmes
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes Amsterdam Drone Week has hosted the first meeting of representatives of the ports of Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp involved in the development
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ADW 2024: New moves underway to unblock EU U-space implementation logjam
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes Probably the single largest obstacle to unblocking the logjam of U-space implementation within the European Union is the lack of agreement between
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ADW 2024: What eVTOL operations will happen this year in Paris?
Paris 2024 has been marked for years as the launch-pad of the global advanced air mobility (AAM) industry. But while Volocopter eVTOLs will be flying
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