Plan to attend TVF 2026in San Jose! TVF 2026 features two key events: the Vertical Lift Aircraft Design and Aeromechanics Specialists’ Conference and the 13th Annual Electric VTOL Symposium. Dr. James Wang will also teach his updated Short Course on eVTOL Design, now in its eighth year, on Monday, Jan. 26. Don’t miss out!
The Electric VTOL News™, Vol 10, No 22, Oct. 28, 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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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.
Check out the World eVTOL Aircraft Directory at www.eVTOL.news/aircraft with 1,100+ design concepts!
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!
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:Video on demand (7.7 hours of instruction) – held May 19, 2025 at Forum 81
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
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