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TruWeather says its V360° software-as-a-service weather data analytics and forecasting technology can provide operators of piloted eVTOL aircraft and uncrewed aircraft systems with vital real-time information and forecasting about highly localized, low-altitude meteorological conditions. This has prompted eVTOL vehicle developer Supernal to invest in the company so that it can integrate the technology into its plans to build and operate a four-passenger vehicle in urban areas where high buildings can distort wind patterns.

H55, a spin-off from the Solar Impulse team that flew around the world on energy from the sun, is teaming with Vmo Aircraft Leasing to offer financing options to help aircraft operators and manufacturers to switch to electric propulsion. Initially, H55's primary focus will be on providing electric propulsion systems and batteries for light aircraft, such as trainers, but the company is also supporting Pratt & Whitney Canada's plans for a hybrid-electric regional airliner.

Three years on from establishing a dedicated UAS/UAM division, Honeywell Aerospace has won the trust of multiple new eVTOL aircraft developers. The company is making progress with new electric propulsion technology, as well as avionics and flight controls.

Boeing has acquired the shares in Wisk Aero formerly owned by the founders of now-defunct eVTOL aircraft developer Kitty Hawk. Wisk will now operate as a wholly owned Boeing subsidiary as it works to bring a four-seat fully autonomous eVTOL vehicle into commercial service and says it is close to securing a Part 135 operator's certificate.

Bookings are now open for the first scheduled electric aircraft flights in Scandinavia, plus Volocopter lines up the software platform that will handle maintenance for its eVTOL aircraft fleet, South Korean start-ups Plana and Moviation launch plans for advanced air mobility operations, Airbus supports command and control communications trials for eVTOL aircraft, and Phenix flies its Half Pint utility drone.

Piasecki Aircraft Corporation will use the Sikorsky Heliplex facility in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, as a research and development hub for its planned PA-890 hydrogen-powered helicopter as well as new uncrewed aerial systems. The acquisition is expected to create 400 jobs at a site that Lockheed Martin closed in 2022.

Destinus has flown its Jungfrau technology demonstrator using new afterburner technology that employs gaseous hydrogen in combination with a conventional turbofan engine. The European start-up expects to bring an autonomous cargo aircraft to market first, followed by passenger-carrying airliners that could reduce travel time between Europe and Australia to just four hours at hypersonic speeds of more than Mach 5.

Cargo drone start-up Dronamics says it has successfully completed the first flight of its flagship aircraft, the Black Swan. The remotely piloted cargo freighter took off from Balchik Airfield in northeast Bulgaria and flew for 10 minutes and 30 seconds, reaching an altitude of 2,000 feet. 

Lyte Aviation and the Advanced Air Mobility Institute believe they can transform daily commutes from Washington state's Bainbridge Island to Seattle and the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, replacing ferries with high-capacity, hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft like the in-development SkyBus LA-44.