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Ensuring Safety for Advanced Air Mobility

NASA's Advanced Air Mobility mission is helping to ensure this new class of aircraft that industry is developing is...

Investigating Advanced Air Mobility Ride Quality

Electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLs), like the one shown in this concept art, could be a...

Advanced Air Mobility Makes Travel More Accessible

Advanced Air Mobility will connect both urban dwellers and rural residents by adding a new way to travel by air. As...

Planning a Future Airspace with Advanced Air Mobility

For NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility mission's vision to be successful, partners in industry and government must develop...

NASA Concludes AEROcAST Wind Study

A NASA wind study aimed at enhancing air taxi safety on takeoff and landing is complete at NASA’s Armstrong Flight...

Advanced Air Mobility Cargo Delivery

NASA is uniquely qualified to help revolutionize the Advanced Air Mobility cargo transportation industry by finding...

NASA Drop Test Supports Safer Air Taxi Designs

Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, dropped a full-scale aircraft body, modeled...

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An idea for a future air taxi hovers over a municipal vertiport in this NASA illustration. Experts from NASA’s...

Mobile Operations Facility for Advanced Air Mobility Pathfinders Research

Housed at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, this Mobile Operations Facility, seen here...

NASA and Joby Research Near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center

One of multiple NASA distributed sensing ground nodes is set up in the foreground while an experimental air taxi...

NASA and Joby Research Near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center

One of multiple NASA distributed sensing ground nodes is set up in the foreground while an experimental air taxi...

NASA and Joby Research Near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center

NASA aeronautical meteorologist Luke Bard adjusts one of several wind lidar (light detection and ranging) sensors...

NASA and Joby Research Near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center

One of several NASA distributed sensing ground nodes is set up in the foreground while an experimental air taxi...

NASA and Joby Complete Air Taxi Testing

Members from NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign team and Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology team...

Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Simulator at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center with Pilot

NASA test pilot Wayne Ringelberg sits in the air taxi virtual reality flight simulator during a test at NASA’s...

Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Simulator at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center with Pilot

NASA test pilot Wayne Ringelberg and NASA researcher Kyle Barnes prepare for Ringelberg’s ride in the air taxi...

Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Simulator at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center with Pilot

NASA researchers Curt Hanson (background) and Saravanakumaar Ramia (foreground) control the air taxi virtual reality...

NASA Armstrong Supports Wind Study

A NASA flight campaign aims to enable drones to land safely on rooftop hubs called vertiports for future delivery of...

AAM-Concept-2021

Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional...

Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE) Sensor Pod Build at NASA Armstrong 

NASA researchers James Cowart and Elizabeth Nail add sensors, wiring and cameras, to the NASA Airborne...

NASA Uses Wind Tunnel to Test Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft Wing

In May and June, NASA researchers tested a 7-foot wing model with multiple propellers in the 14-by-22-Foot Subsonic...

Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology Project (RVLT) Simulator

Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE) Sensor Pod on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Helicopter

The NASA Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE) sensor pod is attached to the...

Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE) Sensor Pod Build at NASA Armstrong 

NASA researcher James Cowart adds the top back onto the NASA Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban...