At Electra, we evaluate the future of advanced air mobility through the Rule of Six. To succeed at scale, AAM aircraft must deliver access and quiet, payload and range, and be affordable and safe—all six together. These are not competing priorities, but the baseline for aircraft that earn trust, serve communities, connect people and operate reliably within the national airspa...

Vertical Aerospace a global aerospace and technology company pioneering electric aviation announced the signing of a strategic three-party Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) with Abdel Hadi Abdullah Al-Qahtani & Sons Group of Companies (Tariq Al-Qahtani & Brothers) (“AHQ Group”), a leading Saudi industrial conglomerate, and the Saudi National Industrial Development C...

New kinds of aircraft taking to the skies could mean unfamiliar sounds overhead — and where you’re hearing them might matter, according to new NASA research. NASA aeronautics has worked for years to enable new air transportation options for people and goods, and to find ways to make sure they can be safely and effectively integrated into U.S. communities. That’s why the agenc...

Electra announced a new partnership with the Virginia Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Smart Airspace Program to design, implement, and test a first-of-its-kind, low-cost instrument flight rules (IFR) network for Ultra Short and other AAM aircraft complete with new, FAA-certified access points.

Nearly all commercial aviation services operate under IFR to ensure reliabili...

Textron Systems Corporation, a Textron Inc. company, announced today it was awarded a prototype agreement from the U.S. Army for the Low Altitude Stalking & Strike Ordnance (LASSO) program. Under the prototype agreement, Textron Systems will deliver a DamoclesTM loitering munition system and demonstrate it to the U.S. Army.

The DamoclesTM loitering munition, equ...