UAM AirInsight caught up with Darshan Divakaran, head of AIRAVAT consulting and UAS Program Engineer, North Carolina Division of Aeronautics, Department of Transportation. North Carolina DOT leads the UAS Integrated Pilot Program (IPP), which resulted in the successful UPS and…
UAM AirInsight caught up with Colby Harvey, founder and CEO of the start-up drone company, RIZSE at the Unmanned Arizona conference. RIZE developed advanced robotics in a fully autonomous drone platform to streamline aircraft inspections. The drone, with matching software,…
NEXA Advisors of McLean, VA, recently published the groundbreaking study, Urban Air Mobility: Economics and Global Markets, just released a fleet forecast for UAM aircraft. Between 2020 and 2040, NEXA forecasts a global market for more than 41,500 aircraft in…
Honeywell’s avionics team displayed in the NBAA BACE Innovation Center avionics adapted for UAM aircraft and a new concept for a UAM cockpit display. We caught up with Bindu Chava, chief engineer for urban air mobility market products, who provided…
NBAA concludes that urban air mobility (UAM), including electric and hybrid-electric aircraft, will have a “profound” benefit to business aviation based on the study Business Aviation Embraces Electric Flight, which was released at the NBAA BACE 2019 conference. NBAA conducted…
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, provided an inspiring keynote at the Commercial UAV EXPO where he compared his experiences as a Naval Aviator to the challenges the industry faces today enabling UAM. He stressed that the first “A” in NASA is…