This webpage served as a landing page for Electric VTOL articles and resources pertaining to the joint Transformative Vertical Flight initiative for 2015-2017. It is no longer maintained. We now have a dedicated site: The Electric VTOL News: www.eVTOL.news
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Uber Elevate
- Uber Elevate Summit, all Uber press releases, April 25, 2017
- Uber's Elevate White Paper, Medium.com, Oct. 27, 2016
- Inside Uber's Plan to Take Over the Skies with Flying Cars, Wired.com, Oct. 27, 2016
- Uber Details Vision For Urban Vertical-Lift Ridesharing, Aviation Week, Oct. 27, 2016 (free registration required)
- Uber Statement on Electric VTOL, vtol.org, Sept. 29, 2016
- Uber Joins Race for VTOL, vtol.org, Sept. 25, 2016
VFS Vertiflite articles
- May-Jun 2017: Electric VTOL News — The Latest in eVTOL Developments [issue highlights, download]
- Mar-Apr 2017: Air Mobility Bonanza Beckons Electric VTOL Developers [issue highlights, download]
- Mar-Apr 2017: Commentary: Electric VTOL Wheel of Fortune [issue highlights, download]
- Jan-Feb 2017: Electric VTOL: The Demand for On-Demand Mobility [issue highlights, download]
- Nov-Dec 2016: Lift Where You Need It: Distributed Electric Propulsion opens new design opportunities for vertical flight [issue highlights, download]
- Sept-Oct 2016: German Ultralight VTOL Innovations (including e-volo and Lilium) [issue highlights, download]
- July-Aug 2016: A Small LightningStrike:Aurora's subscale vehicle demonstrator flies [issue highlights, download]
- May-June 2016: Commentary: The Tesla of Vertical Flight? [issue highlights, download]
- May-June 2016: The e-volo VC200 Volocopter: The World’s First Certified Multicopter [issue highlights, download]
- May-June 2016: Lightning Strikes Aurora: DARPA Awards VTOL X-Plane Demonstrator Contract [issue highlights, download]
- May-June 2015: Elytron – Bringing Back the Convertiplane [issue highlights, download]
- Sept-Oct 2014: Commentary: Innovation Outpaces Regulation [issue highlights, download]
- Nov-Dec 2014: The Joby S2 VTOL Concept: Exploring the New Degrees of Design Freedom of Distributed Electric Propulsion [issue highlights, download]
Transformative Vertical Flight Workshops — www.vtol.org/transformative
- 4th Transformative Workshop opening panel - VFS presentation and panel video, June 2017 -- NEW
- 3rd Transformative Workshop is a Huge Success!, Vertiflite, Nov-Dec 2016
- Second Transformative Vertical Flight Workshop Is a Great Success, Vertiflite, Nov-Dec 2015
- AHS International Leads Transformative Vertical Flight Initiative, Vertiflite, Nov-Dec 2014
Updated June 7, 2017