Drone delivery has seen many years of disappointing growth, perhaps best evidenced by Amazon’s difficulty getting Prime Air off the ground despite delivering billions of packages across the globe. The largest barrier has been lack of regulatory approval, which many operators have struggled to overcome. However, in recent months, drone delivery may finally be coming…
Ever since the concept of the electric “air taxi” started to gain attention, a narrative has been spun that this form of transportation will be relatively inexpensive to fly, opening up the skies to the average Joe and reducing the strain on overcrowded road networks in cities throughout the world. Indeed, it is worth looking…
With the dust having settled on another Farnborough Airshow, I can’t help thinking of the famous French maxim “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same). Any hope that the passenger eVTOL industry had begun descending from the Gartner hype cycle’s “peak of inflated expectations”…
June 12 2026, 15:00 British Summer Time (BST) London. Valour Consultancy’s latest research forecasts that the global commercial fleet of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, will exceed 5.6 million aircraft by 2050. Its new report, “The Future of Commercial Drones – 2026”, covers delivery, inspection and surveillance, and agricultural applications, and complements the firm’s recently published “The Future of Advanced Air Mobility” study. The agricultural market is already mature, particularly in China where DJI alone…
June 10 2026, 17:00 British Summer Time (BST) London. According to a new report by Valour Consultancy, “The Future of Advanced Air Mobility – 2026”, the in-service fleet of passenger electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) “air taxis” will reach 6,824 by 2050. Whilst more conservative than other headline-grabbing forecasts that imply rapid and widespread deployment, it is one grounded in aviation precedent. According to report author Craig Foster, outside China, take-off and…
Upon checking out the footage from the recent demonstration of AutoFlight’s new V5000 Matrix eVTOL, I felt compelled to write something about the noise signature of these aircraft. Why? Well we’re repeatedly told that they’re ostensibly quiet and that this will lead to their proliferation throughout our cities. But is the sound they make a…
11/26/2025 EHang today released its Q3 2025 results, revealing that it delivered just 41 units of its EH216 series eVTOL – down from 68 in Q2 2025. The figure is also a sharp reduction from the 63 units delivered in Q3 2024, meaning EHang has now produced 120 units across the first three quarters of…
In assembling research for our forthcoming report, “The Future of Advanced Air Mobility”, it became clear that there is a consistent narrative underpinning the public communications of passenger AAM developers like Joby, Archer, Eve, Supernal, and Vertical Aerospace. These companies frequently cite a long-term UN projection that around 68% of the global population will live…
In last month’s article, which formed Part I of this two-part series, we looked at how China’s various provinces and municipalities are planning for the low-altitude economy by building out many thousands of take-off and landing sites. In this follow-up, we take a virtual tour of the globe, honing in on those cities that have…
Recent years have seen a glut of forecasts rain down upon us heralding the dawn of a new era. An era where the great and the good in all corners of the globe will have regular access to some form of on-demand aerial transportation. Urban air mobility (UAM), a subset of the wider advanced air…
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