Plan to be a part of the 2025 Transformative Vertical Flight (TVF) meeting! TVF2025 comprises three events: the 11th Biennial Autonomous VTOL Technical Meeting, the 12th Annual Electric VTOL Symposium and the Short Course on Electric VTOL. TVF 2025 is supported by the VFS Arizona Chapter and will take place Feb. 3–6, 2025, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. 

The Call for Papers is now available for download — abstracts are due Oct. 14, 2024!

Technical papers are invited in the areas of autonomy-enabled VTOL aircraft systems and control station design. This includes civilian and military platforms of all sizes, ranging from micro vehicles (MAVs) and small uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), through full-scale crewed aircraft, with the full range autonomy and associated enabling technologies, including fully autonomous, ground-controlled and optionally crewed aircraft, with combustion- or electric-powered propulsion. Papers addressing all aspects of operator interface design, including both the air vehicle and operator control stations are also invited.

This event always sells out, so plan today to be part of this important event! 

The Vertical Flight Society’s 81st Annual Forum & Technology Display is taking place May 20-22, 2025 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. If you are conducting VTOL research and analysis, this is your opportunity to present and discuss advances in every area of vertical flight technology, design and its applications — everything from acoustics and aerodynamics to test & evaluation. 

Attention innovators, the GoAERO Prize is open and accepting teams! GoAERO is a 3-year competition, with $2M in prizes, to build a safe, portable, robust, autonomy-enabled flyer that responds to challenges posed by natural disasters, medical emergencies, climate change and humanitarian crises. Form a GoAERO Team to Save Lives and Win over $2M in prizes!

• Expert Lecture: Dominic Barone – Webinar on Oct. 15
• Meet the Teams: Virginia Tech University

The Vertical Flight Society held its 8th Workshop on AAM Infrastructure last week, Sept. 17–18.

It was a great success with nearly 70 registrants. If you didn’t attend, the links to purchase the video recordings and presentation slides are posted on the workshop website (provided to attendees at no cost). Sponsored presentations are posted on the VFS YouTube channel. 

This was the eighth in a series of workshops on AAM infrastructure begun in September 2019.

• 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

Check out all of our short courses available for purchase.

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! 

We now have 1,060 eVTOL concepts listed in the World eVTOL Aircraft Directory, and the number continues to grow! In addition, eVTOL.news has more than 400 in-depth articles since 2012 on eVTOL developments, first flights and important events, links to past events, financial information, and much more! 

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!