Category archive: Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)
AAIM
House Passes Advanced Air Mobility Legislation Washington, DC, June 14, 2022 – The Advanced Aviation Infrastructure Modernization Act (AAIM Act), H.R. 6270 authorizes funding to plan for and eventually build new AAM infrastructure by leveraging existing vertiports and other public transportation facilities to support AAM operations and fosters community engagement programs to…
NASA | NBAA
NASA’s National Campaign (AAM Project) The Advanced Air Mobility project’s National Campaign will promote public confidence and accelerate the realization of emerging aviation markets for passenger and cargo transportation in urban, suburban, rural, and regional environments. NASA views the term “Advanced Air Mobility,” or AAM, to encompass developing and deploying…
History of Transportation
These past 5,000 years we have ridden horses with very little changes overall in transportation. In the past 190 years we went from the world-wide adoption of the first steam locomotives, to electric and gasoline automobiles, to now converting our existing transportation industry to all electric as we approach the…
Electric Vertical Take-Off Landing (eVTOL)
An electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is a variety of VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft that uses electric power to hover, take off, and land vertically. This technology came about thanks to major advances in electric propulsion (motors, batteries, fuel cells, electronic controllers) and the growing need for new vehicles for…
FAA & EASA
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) What is the FAA Doing? The FAA is including AAM and UAM in our planning efforts, and our work is organized around five areas of activity – aircraft, airspace, operations, infrastructure, and community. The FAA is collaborating with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on their Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign. In June 2020, FAA developed and shared…
LWTD: The Four Forces
LIFT | WEIGHT | THRUST | DRAG It is not necessary for pilots to have a super-precise understanding of the four forces. The concept of energy is considerably more important. In the cockpit (especially in critical situations like final approach) I think about the energy budget a lot, and think about forces…
Urban Air Mobility
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is the use of small highly automated aircraft to carry passengers or cargo at lower altitudes in urban and suburban areas which have been developed in response to traffic congestion. It usually refers to existing and emerging technologies such as traditional helicopters, vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL), electrically…
AAM | UAM | eVTOL
AAM is a new concept of air transportation using electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to move people and cargo between places not currently or easily served by surface transportation or existing aviation modes. EVTOL aircraft may be powered by hybrid electric systems, batteries or potentially hydrogen fuel cells….