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International Regulators Map Out the Path to Advanced Air Mobility Progress

Regulators from three continents were among the speakers at last week's Global Urban & Advanced Air Summit in Singapore.
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Beta Opens Net Zero Carbon Electric Aircraft Factory in Vermont

Elected officials. including U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, addressed an opening ceremony on October 2, hailing the company's contribution to decarbonizing aviation.
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Southeast Asia Needs Climate-Resilient Air Mobility

Hui Ling Teo, a partner at the Singapore branch of Reed Smith law firm, is focused on the development of advanced air mobility in outheast Asia.
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Korea Steps Up Urban Air Mobility Ambitions with New Partnerships

Eve Air Mobility is providing air traffic management support with its local partner, Moviation, while Joby is partnered with one of its investors, SK Telecom.
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EHang Delivers Five eVTOL Aircraft to Chinese Tourism Company

Shenzhen Boling Holding Group has placed a conditional order for as many as 100 of EHang's two-seat eVTOL aircraft, which the company intends to use for aerial sightseeing operations.
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UK's Oxford Airport Outlines Plans for a Green Aviation Future

To date, the airport has made its name as a hive of business aviation and flight training.
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Beta Technologies Flies Electric Aircraft Across the Border to Canada

Beta says its Alia eCTOL airplane is the first all-electric aircraft to fly over an international border.
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Lilium Starts Assembling Electric Propulsion System for eVTOL Prototype Aircraft

Honeywell, Denso, Aeronamic, and SKF are key partners contributing elements to power the six-passenger Lilium Jet.
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FutureFlight Weekly News Roundup

FutureFlight.aero's Weekly Advanced Air Mobility News Roundup
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Rolls-Royce Achieves Max Takeoff Thrust with Hydrogen-powered Pearl Engine

The UK aero engine maker is working with several partners, including EasyJet, to advance plans for a hydrogen-powered narrowbody airliner.
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GKN and Pratt & Whitney Collaborate on Hybrid-electric Demonstrator Project

The demonstrator will combine a one-megawatt electric motor with an existing Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine.
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Universal Hydrogen Resumes Flight Testing in Mojave

The company now has more than 250 orders for powertrain conversion kits in its backlog.
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Joby Delivers First eVTOL Aircraft to U.S. Air Force

Joby Aviation has delivered an air taxi to the Edwards Air Force Base in California about six months ahead of schedule, marking the first-ever delivery of an eVTOL aircraft to a paying customer in the U.S.
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Supernal Opens R&D Facility in Silicon Valley

Supernal's new research and development facility in Fremont, California, is dedicated to the advancement of batteries, autonomous systems, and other technologies that will enable electric air travel and urban air mobility.
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VoltAero Flies Hybrid-electric Aircraft on Sustainable Aviation Fuel

The ability of VoltAero's Cassio hybrid-electric aircraft to run its turbogenerator on sustainable aviation fuel will be important to achieve its decarbonization efforts.
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FutureFlight Weekly News Roundup

FutureFlight.aero's Weekly Advanced Air Mobility News Roundup
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FutureFlight On The Radar

Index Reveals a Path To Reinventing Domestic Flights Between UK Cities

EA Maven consultants have identified 264 British cities and almost 1,000 new routes that could be served in an economically and environmentally sustainable way by new aircraft.
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Lilium and Aciturri Start Building First eVTOL Aircraft for Certification Flight Tests

Spanish aerostructures tier-one supplier is playing a key role in building the Lilium Jet fuselages.
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Airbus, Barclays, and Saudis Invest in Hydrogen Propulsion Pioneer ZeroAvia

ZeroAvia has not confirmed how much its latest funding round has raised for plans to convert existing aircraft to use its fuel cell electric propulsion systems.
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Korean Leasing Group Plans to Add SkyDrive eVTOL Vehicle to Portfolio

Japan-based SkyDrive now has pre-order agreements for its SD-05 aircraft from customers in Vietnam, the U.S., Japan, and South Korea.
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