Thom Patterson

As investors envision a new era of hovering, environmentally friendly, electric air taxis flying short hops over traffic jams to nearby airports, the history of U.S. helicopter airlines may offer some keys to success.  New York Airways (1953-1979) and Los Angeles Airways (1947-1971)—along with similar operations in San Francisco and Chicago—were aviation trailblazers, part of […]

Historic Stratolaunch aircraft performs taxi tests for the first time in eight months.

California-based, Uber-backed company announces a new flight test campaign with the tilt-rotor aircraft.

The new 5G-connected vertiport and maintenance hub will serve electric hovering aircraft in Guangzhou.

Although the fledgling electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) industry faces a long path to aircraft certification and entering service, avionics giants are already defining the future of this new aviation sector.  No pressure. They’re just taking on the challenge of merging electronics and visual displays—across flight controls, navigation, communication, fuel systems, and threat detection—for […]

Boeing plans to shift its massive commercial aviation design and production systems to a unified, digital ecosystem in an effort to increase revenue and reduce potential problems.

t’s only been a few years since the birth of the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) movement, but in 2021, companies were already clearing major hurdles.

A week after Archer Aviation’s first hover test of its electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, the eVTOL company posted a short video with a pilot offering his analysis of the flight.

Radar will be key for detect-and-avoidance systems as air taxis navigate across urban landscapes.

Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are blaming the delay on a malfunctioning engine flight controller on one of the space launch system (SLS) core stage engines.