Interested in hydrogen propulsion? The VFS H2-Aero Symposium is April 2–3 in Long Beach, California! Join top speakers to discuss hydrogen aviation and fuel cell progress and challenges. Register and book your hotel today!
The Electric VTOL News™, Vol 10, No 5, March 4, 2025
Your premier resource for advanced air mobility (AAM) news since 2016!
Welcome to our latest eVTOL eNewsletter! These emails are intended to keep you up to date with important news and events on electric vertical, short and conventional takeoff and landing (eVTOL, eSTOL and eCTOL) aircraft, including the full spectrum of AAM ecosystem of battery-, hybrid- and hydrogen-electric aircraft. The Electric VTOL News™ is a free newsletter published since 2016 by the Vertical Flight Society and distributed every other Tuesday! If you are new to this newsletter, check our archive of past Electric VTOL News issues to see what you’ve missed!
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Featured eVTOL articles in this issue:
Manta Aircraft Sets Sights on Hybrid-Electric Future
VFS supports multiple initiatives to advance hydrogen-electric fuel cell aviation for new eVTOL and eCTOL/eSTOL aircraft applications. In May 2020, VFS founded the H2eVTOL Council, which was spun off into the non-profit HYSKY Society. In January 2022, VFS created the H2-Aero Team to develop a white paper for a Multimodal Hydrogen Airport Hub.
The Vertical Flight Society’s 81st Annual Forum & Technology Display is taking place May 20-22, 2025, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. Plan to attend and learn about the latest advances in every area of vertical flight technology, design and its applications — everything from acoustics and aerodynamics to test & evaluation.
Forum 81 exhibit opportunities are also available — learn more at Forum 81 Exhibits.
Attention innovators: thank you to participants who submitted designs for Stage 1 of the GoAERO Prize! The list of winners has been announced online. Please consider applying for Stage 2 of the competition even if you did not participate in Stage 1. Check the details here for participation in Stages 2 and 3. GoAERO is a 3-year competition for teams to build safe, portable, robust, autonomy-enabled flyers that respond to natural disasters, medical emergencies, climate change and humanitarian crises. Form a GoAERO team to save lives and win over $2M in prizes!
Check out GoAERO’s past videos and upcoming webinars!
Exclusive to VFS Members: GoAERO will schedule a one-on-one Zoom meeting with VFS Members who are interested! To schedule a meeting, contact info@GoAEROprize.com.
Register at HeroX.com/GoAERO to learn more and to get competition updates!
VFS eVTOL Short Courses
Need an introduction to eVTOL or need to become an expert? Watch one of our recent eVTOL short courses video recordings, or come to our next in-person course:
VFS-AIAA Short Course on Electric VTOL Aircraft Design: Theory and Practice: Feb. 25 – March 27, 2025. (20 total hours of instruction) Learn more!
2024 Short Course on Electric VTOL Technology: Video-on-demand (7 hours of instruction), held May 2024 at Forum 80
2024 Short Course on Electric VTOL Design: Video-on-demand (8 hours of instruction), held Feb. 2024 at TVF 2024
Short Course on Electric VTOL Technology:Video-on-demand (7 hours of instruction), held May 2023 at Forum 79
VFS-AIAA Short Course on Electric VTOL Aircraft Design: Theory and Practice: Video-on-Demand (20 hours of instruction) — held Feb/March 2023
2023 Short Course on Electric VTOL Design: Video-on-Demand (8.1 hours of instruction) — held Jan. 2023
Short Course on Electric VTOL Technology:Video-on-demand (6.9 hours of instruction) — held June 2022
Short Course on Electric VTOL Design: Video-on-demand (10.2 hours of instruction) includes 1,000 presentation slides in PDF format — held Feb. 2022
Short Course on Electric VTOL Technology:Video-on-demand (10.5 hours of instruction) includes hundreds of presentation slides in PDF format — held June 2021
Short Course on Electric VTOL Design (Introduction):Video-on-demand for this 9-hour eVTOL short course — with more than 500 presentation slides provided in PDF format — Sept. 2020
Short Course on Electric VTOL Design (Intermediate):Video-on-demand for this 9-hour eVTOL short course — with more than 500 presentation slides provided in PDF format — Feb. 2021
UAM Geomatics and the Vertical Flight Society collaborated on an important study,Urban Air Mobility (UAM) — Economics and Global Markets. This groundbreaking study covers market and economic forecasts for 84 metropolitan areas, 2020 – 2040, including technologies, policies, markets, infrastructure and economics. Every city has been examined with deep city-level analysis and built out. See the demo of New York City’s UAM potential!
TVF2025 comprised three events: the 11th Biennial Autonomous VTOL Technical Meeting, the 12th Annual Electric VTOL Symposium and the Short Course on Electric VTOL. TVF 2025 was supported by the VFS Arizona Chapter and was held at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
TVF 2025 included two dozen technical papers/presentations on autonomy, VIP government leaders, a full day of plenary speakers on autonomous and electric VTOL, and the traditional “Titans of Autonomy” panel — with 60+ speakers from government and industry on electric VTOL, including leaders from top eVTOL companies like Archer, Joby, Beta, Elroy, Piasecki, Pivotal, SkyDrive, Unither Bioelectronics, Wisk and dozens more!
Have you checked out our eVTOL.news™ website lately? Learn about the different eVTOL aircraft now under development and check out our latest news stories. Past editions of The Electric VTOL News™ are also available. Check it out!
Do you have a product or service of interest to the global eVTOL and AAM community? Contact VFS regarding membership and sponsorship opportunities to see how we can help support you!
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