Tag archive: AAM – Advanced Air Mobility
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…