Register for the VFS 81st Annual Forum & Technology Display on May 20–22 in Virginia Beach, Virginia! Join us to discuss VTOL technology with expert speakers from Horizon Aircraft (shown) and dozens of other companies, groups and government agencies!
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The Electric VTOL News™, Vol 10, No 10, May 13, 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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The Vertical Flight Society’s 81st Annual Forum & Technology Display takes 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.
VFW has launched a convenient new resource page that catalogues years’ worth of white papers, regulations, reference documents and reports related to AAM, eVTOL, eCTOL and other electric or hydrogen powered aircraft! Check it out!
Nov. 5: HYSKY Conference Flying HY 2025 Virtual Register today!
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.
Our 19th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium (EAS 2025) is coming up July 19–20 at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh! Register today to learn the latest developments in electric aviation ahead of EAA’s AirVenture, the world’s largest aviation event that runs from July 21–27.
Stay tuned as our 2025 schedule takes shape!
EAS is the premier electric VTOL / STOL / CTOL and advanced air mobility (AAM) symposium at AirVenture. Speakers from EAS 2024 included executives from Ampaire, Aura Aero, Joby Aviation, magniX, Pipistrel, Pivotal, Textron eAviation, Væridion, VerdeGo Aero, Whisper and Wisk, along with the US Air Force’s Agility Prime and NASA.
Sponsorships and exhibit tables are available!Learn more at www.vtol.org/eas
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 to compete in Stage 2 even if you did not participate in Stage 1. Deadline for Stage 2 submissions is September 30. 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 Short Course on Electric VTOL Technology: May 19, 2025.Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. Register today!
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!
This year’s theme was “Pushing the Envelope,” with real-world demonstrations highlighted in presentations by leaders from hydrogen and aerospace companies such as Boeing, H2FLY, Hydroplane, Joby Aviation, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Piasecki Aircraft and ZeroAvia; as well as hydrogen drone developers Aurora Flight Sciences and Unmanned Aerospace; and hydrogen technology companies Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories (GTL), H2MOF, Honeywell, PowerCell and Unither Bioelectronics.
Key government speakers included representatives from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), along with NASA and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Thanks to the 2025 Symposium’s platinum sponsors Joby Aviation, Piasecki and United Therapeutics! Gold sponsors were GTL, PowerCell and SAE International. Exhibitors included JHG Industries, M4 Engineering and PowerCell.
Presentation PDFs are available for sale in our Vertical Flight Library.
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