Commercial operations with eVTOL aircraft in China are expected to be based on applications such as logistics and sightseeing for several more years before early market entrants secure the Part 135 approvals they will need to launch air taxi...

A ton-level liquid hydrogen powered unmanned eVTOL aircraft completes its test flight in Baoji City, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Photo: Courtesy of Shaanxi Tongchen Heguang Cryogenic Technology Co Ltd.China's first ton-level liquid hydrogen powered electric unmanned vertical takeoff and...

Chinese companies are rapidly advancing in the “low-altitude” sector (see “China's Low-Altitude Economy and eVTOL Diplomacy,” Vertiflite, Sept/Oct 2024), signaling a transformative era in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL). As major players like AutoFlight, EHang and XPeng AeroHT innovate...

SkyDrive, the Japanese eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) company, will become the first to provide electric air taxi flights across Osaka in collaboration with Osaka Metro. Back in August, Osaka Metro and SkyDrive announced that they were working on...

The Alia electric aircraft built in Vermont is turning out to have huge success in New Zealand. First, the country's flagship air carrier committed to adding Alia as the first electric aircraft in its fleet, and now the New...