World's largest eVTOL just proved it can play nice with other flyers

AutoFlight has completed a heterogeneous three-aircraft formation flight with the V5000 Matrix, a 5-metric-ton electric aircraft that could push eVTOL technology well beyond the urban air taxi niche.

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Tags: VTOL, Autoflight, drones, eVTOL, Cargo

Eve amplia prejuízo em 41% no 1º trimestre com avanço de investimentos em eVTOL

A Eve Air Mobility, controlada pela Embraer e dedicada ao desenvolvimento de aeronaves elétricas de decolagem e pouso vertical (eVTOL), encerrou o primeiro trimestre de 2026 com prejuízo líquido 41% maior na comparação anual, refletindo a intensificação dos aportes em pesquisa, testes e certificação do chamado “carro voador”. O aumento das perdas acompanha a estratégia […]

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The coming air age that wasn’t: How Igor Sikorsky provided the template for eVTOL hype

Ten years ago this October, Uber announced in a white paper by its newly created Elevate unit that it was all-in on flying cars. Not that Uber actually called them “flying cars” in the document that introduced the general public to electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft — that was media shorthand for a term that refused to roll off the tongue. But even if reporters resisted Uber’s…

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AltoVolo gets a prototype of its spicy high-performance eVTOL in the air

The last time we heard from the UK's AltoVolo, it only had renders of its grand vision for a sportscar equivalent of an eVTOL to show off. That was exactly a year ago – and it's now got a working prototype taking to the skies.

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Tags: eVTOL, Hybrid eVTOLs, Personal eVTOLs

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Why Insurance Breaks The Uber-In-The-Air Fantasy

The most interesting person in the first commercial eVTOL launch may not be the pilot, the regulator, the mayor at the ribbon cutting, or the executive standing beside the aircraft. It may be the underwriter. The aircraft may have completed its test program. The regulator may have signed off. The ... [continued]

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The aérOnde flying doughnut could be Homer Simpson’s dream

If you’re a longtime viewer of The Simpsons, then you know at least two things about Homer: he loves doughnuts, and he’s an absolutely terrible designer of vehicles. But that doesn’t mean no one should ever combine vehicle design with doughnuts, as French company aérOnde has shown us with its aérOnde (“Air-Round”) airship that looks like a giant, flying doughnut covered in white icing.

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Vertical Aerospace’s piloted transition flight is a technical and business milestone

In November 2025, Vertical Aerospace chairman Dómhnal Slattery proclaimed on the company’s third-quarter earnings call that the U.K.-based electric vertical take-off and landing developer was “within weeks” of completing a successful piloted transition flight with its prototype VX4 aircraft. Four months later, Slattery acknowledged that his declaration had been premature. “The reality is, it’s…

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World-first eVTOL transition flight for Vertical Aerospace

Vertical Aerospace has scored a world-first as its full-scale tilt-rotor eVTOL completed a two-way piloted transition between vertical helicopter mode and horizontal airplane mode during a single continuous flight while under regulatory oversight.

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Tags: Vertical Aerospace, eVTOL, Flight Tests

Video: Semicircular wings give Cyclone VTOL a different kind of lift

We've seen lots of designs for vertical take-off and landing vehicles over the years, but none are quite as striking as the wings on HopFlyt's Cyclone. The curved wings have their root in a design first introduced in the 1920s but never employed in a commercial vehicle.

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Tags: eVTOL, Hybrid eVTOLs, VTOL, Unmanned, Aircraft

FAA greenlights eVTOL aircraft operations across the USA

Nearly three years after China began certifying next-gen electric "air taxis" for commercial flights, American contenders are still battling red tape with the FAA – but a new accelerator program will get them airborne across the USA this summer.

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Tags: eVTOL, Air Taxis, Electric Aircraft, Joby Aviation, Wisk, Archer Aviation, Beta…

Understanding U.S. eVTOL developers’ long trudge through certification

Five years after revealing its plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange, electric vertical take-off and landing developer Archer Aviation announced on its March 2 earnings call that the Federal Aviation Administration has accepted 100% of the means of compliance for its Midnight air taxi. Means of compliance (MOCs) are the detailed design standards used to show compliance with airworthiness…

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eVTOL Certification Is Coming, But Commercial Runway Isn’t

The question around electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aka Jetsons air taxi certification has shifted. It is no longer about whether regulators will create a pathway. Both the FAA and EASA have done that work. The FAA finalized powered lift operational rules in 2024 and published Advisory Circular 21.17-4 ... [continued]

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AirXがエンブラエル系の空飛ぶクルマ2機を確定注文し、最大50機の追加発注オプションも締結。2029年の国内実装を目指す

2026年2月5日、AirXは次世代電動垂直離着陸機(eVTOL)の導入に向けてEve Air Mobilityと基本契約を締結し、最大50機の拡張可能なオプションを含む戦略的取り組みを開始した。2029年の実装を計画している。

スカイドライブ、東京ビッグサイトで空飛ぶクルマのデモフライトを初実施。搭乗手続きも検証

2026年2月24日から2月28日にかけて、スカイドライブは東京都や三菱地所、兼松と連携し、東京ビッグサイトにて空飛ぶクルマ「SKYDRIVE」のデモフライトを初めて実施する。また、旅客ターミナル施設での搭乗手続きの検証も行う方針だ。

Newcomer ERC, now flight testing, keeps Germany’s eVTOL dreams alive

Not that long ago, Germany was the center of gravity for Europe’s burgeoning electric vertical take-off and landing industry, home to ambitious aircraft development programs at Lilium, Volocopter and Airbus. By 2025, those dreams had collapsed. Lilium and Volocopter went bankrupt and had their intellectual property sold to foreign entities, while Airbus put its CityAirbus eVTOL on ice, no longer…

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