Honda has completed the first flight of its full-scale eVTOL technology demonstrator, the company revealed last week via a video posted to X (formerly Twitter). According to Honda, the remotely piloted aircraft flew for about 90 seconds on April 1 at...

On May 21, Eve Air Mobility (São José dos Campos, Brazil) announced the successful closeout of the hover and low‑speed flights block in the flight test campaign of its full‑scale engineering electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) prototype. The completed block generated high‑fidelity...

Chinese electric aircraft maker AutoFlight recently conducted a coordinated flight with its largest eVTOL aircraft and two smaller models from the same family. The company said this was the first time the heavy V5000 Matrix had flown alongside two...

Air taxi makers have hyped science fiction-like flying cars for years. But as that dream inches closer to reality, legal squabbles are clouding that momentum. Last year, Joby Aviation sued Archer, accusing the rival air taxi maker of “corporate espionage” and using stolen information to...

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. The mission – one V5000 Matrix flying in coordination with two V2000-series...