The Transformative Vertical Flight 2022 meeting, organized by Vertical Flight Society (VFS), will take place Jan. 25-27, 2022 in San Jose, California, with an „air taxi“ aircraft display on Friday, Jan. 28.  The meeting this year includes two events: Aeromechanics for Advanced Vertical Flight which provides a forum for technical paper presentations on emerging aeromechanics challenges and solution methods for…

As the current epidemic situation is still severe and complicated, the organizer of AERO ASIA decide to reschedule AERO Asia from March 2-5, 2022 in Zhuhai China to November, 2023 in Zhuhai, China. AERO Asia is the leading Business and General Aviation show for China and Asia, and is the result of the enduring efforts…

Shanghai-based eVTOL startup Autoflight annouced today that they have set up a reseasrch, development and certification center in Augsburg, Germany, and will apply for EASA certification of their V1500M 4-seat eVTOL. The former head of Airbus EC135 and H145 projects Mark Henning joined as the head of Autoflight Europe. Autoflight plans to start the EASA…

On 30 December 2021 the Chinese regulator CAAC published the special conditions (SC) of the lithium batteries for light sports airplane (LSA). CAAC states in the document that since there is no technical requirement for lithium batteries in ASTM F2840-14 technical standard for LSA, this SC is . The SC is necessary for the certification…