HI Uplift: Reviving the old, the shock of the new (eventually)insight Mike Stones 19 Apr 22 0The reviving fortunes of the commercial helicopter market, powered by renewed oil and gas demand, coupled with excitement about the deployment of drones and, eventually,… Read more
Lobo Leasing now owned by CEO and COOnews Alasdair Whyte 2 Nov 21 0Helicopter lease servicing company Lobo Leasing has completed a management buy-out. The company is now wholly owned by CEO Bill Wolf and chief operating officer… Read more
UK Civil Aviation Authority announces eVTOL safety consortiumnews Alasdair Whyte 6 Oct 21 0The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced a new international consortium – eVTOL Safety Leadership Group (eVSLG) – of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL)… Read more
Blade Air Mobility to acquire Trinity Air Medicalnews Alasdair Whyte 22 Sep 21 0Blade Air Mobility has entered into a $23m definitive agreement to acquire US-based organ logistics company Trinity Air Medical. It will purchase 100% of the… Read more
Bristow and Electra to bring mid-mile logistics for retail distributionnews Alasdair Whyte 31 Aug 21 0Bristow Group has made its first move towards advanced air mobility, when it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to purchase 50 eSTOL (electric short… Read more
GPMS closes Series A funding led by DiamondStream Partnersnews Alasdair Whyte 22 Mar 21 0AI predictive maintenance company GPMS International has announced the close of a Series A financing round led by DiamondStream Partners. It did not release the… Read more
General Motors unveils Cadillac aerial mobility conceptnews Alasdair Whyte 19 Jan 21 0General Motors has entered the aerial mobility space after the unveiling of Cadillac-designed concept at the Consumer Electronics Show 2021. The concept currently accommodates a… Read more
Volocopter to bring electric air taxi services to US citiesnews Alasdair Whyte 15 Jan 21 0German air taxi start-up Volocopter announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) accepted its application for Type Certificate validation on December 22nd 2020. Volocopter has… Read more
Blade to go public via SPAC at $825mnews Alasdair Whyte 16 Dec 20 0Helicopter operator Blade is the latest company to go public via a merger with blank check company Experience Investment Corp., an affiliate of KSL Capital… Read more
One small step for man, a ‘decade leap forward’ for Canadainsight Alasdair Whyte 9 Nov 20 0Neil Armstrong would be proud. Or maybe Ryan Gosling would be – since he played him in the powerful moon landing movie First Man. Either… Read more
EmbraerX launches independent UAM spin-off Eve Solutionsnews Alasdair Whyte 15 Oct 20 0After four years of incubation within EmbraerX, Eve Urban Air Mobility Solutions, Inc. (Eve) has been launched as an independent company in the urban air… Read more
Helicopter Investor London 2020: Starting with cautious optimisminsight Alasdair Whyte 26 Feb 20 0Cautious optimism summed up the mood on the first day of Helicopter Investor’s London 2020 conference. While speakers acknowledged the sector was still grappling with… Read more
European Rotors – can it fly?insight Alasdair Whyte 24 Jan 20 0This article originally appeared as part of our Helicopter Investor Weekly Newsletter. If you want these articles in your inbox before they appear on the… Read more
New EHA conference unites eVTOLs and Helicoptersnews Alasdair Whyte 22 Jan 20 0A new collaborative conference by the European Helicopter Association (EHA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will bring major helicopter companies, eVTOL start-ups, and… Read more
Kitty Hawk’s new eVTOL is “barely discernible to the human ear”news Alasdair Whyte 8 Oct 19 0Kitty Hawk, the Mountain View, California-based eVTOL manufacturer has revealed a third experimental aircraft concept named Heaviside – a vertical take-off and landing craft which… Read more
EHang linked to Nasdaq IPOnews Alasdair Whyte 27 Sep 19 0EHang, the Chinese drone and eVTOL manufacturer has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) of up to $200 million shares with Nasdaq – according… Read more
The silver lining to Franky Zapata’s cross-Channel flight cloudnews Alasdair Whyte 30 Jul 19 0Franky Zapata, the flying enthusiast who attempted to cross the English Channel on his personal VTOL on July 25, has been unsuccessful. The VTOL –… Read more
London must change helicopter policy to keep city open for businessnews Terry Spruce 13 May 19 0London – 13th May 2019: London Biggin Hill Airport is warning that the emerging London Policy Plan for Aviation could harm London’s growth by preventing… Read more
Are eVTOLs sustainable?news Alasdair Whyte 15 Apr 19 0The University of Michigan and car manufacturer Ford have released a study suggesting that eVTOL vehicles will have a greater impact on the environment than… Read more
XTI TriFan to fly soonnews Alasdair Whyte 29 Mar 19 0The XTI TriFan hybrid VTOL will be starting proof-of-concept test flights soon. The Colarado-based manufacturer has revealed the first full-scale, proof-of-concept design for the TriFan… Read more
