The Civic Air Transport Association (www.CIVATAglobal.org) has started work today supporting rural and city authorities to assess, manage and adopt increasingly complex unmanned air system
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Category: Urban air mobility
Hyundai and Urban-Air Port to invest USD1.5 billion in UK UAM infrastructure
Hyundai Air Mobility and Urban-Air Port Ltd have announced a partnership to develop urban air mobility (UAM) infrastructure. Hyundai’s investment of USD1.5 billion in UAM
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UK transport department selects five organisations in next phase development of UK UTM system
The UK Ministry for Transport has announced the next phase of the Connected Places Catapult (CPC) project to develop a Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) system
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International consortium wins Innovate UK funding to create BVLOS drone delivery corridor
The UK’s innovation agency Innovate UK is funding an international consortium comprising drone specialists and university researchers to establish a corridor in the Midlands to
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First UAM/AAM flight tests and infrastructure purchases “within a year”- FIA Connect
NASA plans to start its National Campaign-Developmental Testing (NC-DT) flights (https://nari.arc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/NC%20Breakout%20Overview%20EcoWorkshop_v2_III_3_27.pdf as part of its Advanced Air Mobility infrastructure research with Bell APT-70 (Autonomous Pod Transport) https://www.bellflight.com/products/bell-apt vehicles
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“Lack of standards slowing down UTM implementation” – Altitude Angel seminar
By Jenny Beechener A lack of industry standards in areas such as service quality, reliability and drone identification is hampering the deployment of UTM services
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UAM airspace monitoring company Hidden Level announces Uber Elevate tie-up
Hidden Level, a venture-backed company specializing in low altitude airspace monitoring, announced today a collaboration with Uber Elevate. According to a company press release: “Together
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First CityAirbus UAM demonstrator public flight takes off in Bavaria, Germany
The first public flight of Airbus’ CityAirbus four-seat all-electric multicopter demonstrator took place at the company’s Donauwörth, Bavaria, Germany, flight test facility on July 20,
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Urban weather stations in Japan to provide real-time data for drone flights
A collaboration between NTT Communications and Kyoto University’s Metroweather plans to acquire wind speed and wind direction data in urban areas so that drones can
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New inertial navigation system for autonomous vehicles available from Honeywell
Honeywell has introduced a new inertial navigation system called HGuide n380 that communicates position, orientation and velocity of an object — such as an unmanned
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