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About Advanced Air Mobility Pathfinders Project
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The Advanced Air Mobility Pathfinders (AAMP) project accelerates advanced air mobility technologies for wildfire response and urban transportation through real-world demonstrations and strategic partnerships. AAMP researches emerging…

March 5, 2026
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NASA Demonstrates Safer Skies for Future Urban Air Travel 
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NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air…

December 9, 2025
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NASA Tests 5G-Based Aviation Network to Boost Air Taxi Connectivity
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NASA engineers are exploring how the technology used in existing cellphone networks could support the next generation of aviation. In…

July 23, 2025
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NASA Intern Took Career from Car Engines to Cockpits
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Some career changes involve small shifts. But for one NASA engineering intern, the leap was much bigger –moving from under…

June 23, 2025
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From Garment Industry to NASA: Meet Systems Engineer Daniel Eng
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As a child in the 1960s, Daniel Eng spent his weekends in New York City’s garment district in Manhattan’s Lower…

June 6, 2025
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 150: Urban Air Taxis
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Flying taxis? NASA is working on it.

NASA Tests Air Traffic Surveillance Technology Using Its Pilatus PC-12 Aircraft
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As air taxis, drones, and other innovative aircraft enter U.S. airspace, systems that communicate an aircraft’s location will be critical…

January 23, 2025
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October Transformer of the Month: Nipa Phojanamongkolkij
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Dr. Nipa Phojanamongkolkij does not always do things the traditional way. As a systems engineer (SE) at Langley Research Center…

October 23, 2024
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NASA Autonomous Flight Software Successfully Used in Air Taxi Stand-Ins
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In late October, two research helicopters from the manufacturer Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, made a dozen test flights over…

January 25, 2024
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Government and Industry Collaboration Leads to First Air Taxi Delivery 
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A new air taxi from the manufacturer Joby Aviation will allow NASA to evaluate how this kind of vehicle could…

September 25, 2023
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NASA Uses New Air Taxi Ride Simulator to Test Passenger Comfort
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To create a future where air taxis are a regular form of transportation, passengers need to be comfortable. That’s why…

June 15, 2023
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What is the Vertical Motion Simulator?
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The world’s largest flight simulator for high-fidelity testing of new and experimental aircraft and spacecraft designs Driven by powerful motors…

June 6, 2023
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NASA Research Gathers Key Radar Data for Autonomous Air Cargo Delivery
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When autonomous air taxis and cargo delivery vehicles fly above neighborhoods, safe operations will depend on their ability to detect…

June 6, 2023
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Eyes on Ice
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Curtis Flack (left) and Paul von Hardenberg inspect the ice formation on the spinner of an Advanced Air Mobility proprotor…

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NASA’s Autonomous Aircraft Decision Tech Gets Simulated Urban Test
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Cities are complicated places to fly, presenting challenges – both known and unpredictable – for current and future air vehicles.…

February 24, 2023
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NASA is Creating an Advanced Air Mobility Playbook
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NASA is building the system to make soaring over traffic in air taxis, providing public-good missions in the form of…

February 2, 2023
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For Advanced Air Mobility, Safety is Paramount
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Lee esta historia en español aquí. Companies around the world are creating innovative new aircraft designs like electric vertical take-off and landing…

September 28, 2022
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NASA Tests Advanced Air Mobility Automation Concepts with Sikorsky and DARPA
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New forms of highly automated Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) aircraft, such as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, could…

August 16, 2022
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Building the Infrastructure for Advanced Air Mobility
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Read this feature in Spanish here. Small drones delivering packages, air taxis carrying passengers, or air ambulance providing lifesaving transportation…

July 18, 2022
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NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility Mission Researches Noise
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Read this feature in Spanish here. When the public thinks about the addition of drones, air taxis, or new cargo…

June 27, 2022
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Advanced Air Mobility Plans for Vertiports
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Read this feature in Spanish here. Looking forward to catching an air taxi? NASA is working to answer where Advanced…

April 25, 2022
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NASA’s International Collaboration Furthers Progress in Advanced Air Mobility
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Two international organizations with the shared goal of expanding innovation in aviation have formalized their collaborative relationship in aviation-related research.…

April 14, 2022
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Advanced Air Mobility Looks Ahead to Automation
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Read this feature in Spanish here. Using software to handle tasks to assist people is not a new concept –…

March 23, 2022
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Sign Up to Fly with NASA Using the Flight Log Experience
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NASA Aeronautics is cleared for takeoff through 2022, and we invite you and your family, friends, and classmates to join…

February 25, 2022
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NASA and Bell Complete Helicopter and APT-70 Flights
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NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign continues to prepare for National Campaign 1 or NC-1 by conducting flight test efforts…

February 2, 2022
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Advanced Air Mobility for Emergencies
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Read this feature in Spanish here. Hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes – our planet faces many of these natural disasters each…

January 24, 2022
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AAM Safety Poster Contest Winner
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Lydia S., from Wisconsin is the winner of a poster contest sponsored by NASA Aeronautics’ Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) project.…

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Building Future Air Taxis to See Through the Fog
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While the sun beat down on the New Mexico desert, inside, a dense fog hung in the air. In a…

December 17, 2021
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Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign Partners
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To integrate air taxis, cargo delivery aircraft, and other new vehicle concepts into the National Airspace System, NASA’s Advanced Air…

November 9, 2021
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Advanced Air Mobility Holding Poster Contest
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NASA Aeronautics’ Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) project is holding a poster contest for kids in grades 6-12 – who, in…

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