As April ends, several state legislatures have adjourned for the remainder of the session. Due to elections, sessions in even-numbered years are often shorter than those in odd-numbered ones. Eight states adjourned this month, bringing the total to nineteen states already adjourned for their 2024 regular sessions.
What We’re Seeing
With the legislative sessions winding down, we saw fewer new bills introduced and began to see more bills enacted into law. This includes forward leaning enabling legislation for both air and ground vehicles:
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Veronte Autopilot: Flight-Ready and Poised for eVTOL Mass Production
The Veronte Autopilot emerges as a highly optimized solution for the control of manned electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft in anticipation of large-scale production for this type of vehicles. Ready for eVTOL installation, it excels in both fly-by-wire and autonomous control modes.
TruWeather Solutions and AeroX Tackle Weather Challenges for Advanced Aviation in North Carolina… and Beyond
By: Akshata for P3 Tech Consulting
Floridians Stand to Benefit from the Exciting Future of Aviation
A revolution of more connected communities, infrastructure investment, and job growth is poised to take place nationwide with Florida at the lead. Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is a quickly developing industry in the state and will offer crucial services to Floridians and their businesses.
Florida has consistently been on the forefront of technological innovation, and this has been no different for AAM. Many companies leading the development of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft are targeting Florida for early implementation of this new form of aerial transportation.
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AIBOT: Creating AI-Defined Enterprise Drones and Air Taxis!
Founded in California in 2022, industry newcomer AIBOT is on a mission to revolutionize mobility by crafting a wide range of accessible, software-driven, high-performance aiEVTOL aircraft. In this exclusive interview, based on the first episode of this year's Dawn of Autonomy podcast (formerly known as Dawn of Drones), AIBOT’s Chief Engineer, John Clarkson takes us behind the scenes of AIBOT's remarkable journey, from the creation of a modest small drone to a groundbreaking 500 lb.
ELECTRA kick-off: Innovation for Aeronautical Sustainability
Within the framework of the 2023 Aeronautical Technology Programme, Embention, Fiber Laminates, Zelestium and Abervian, leaders in different aspects of aircraft and electrification, have joined forces on the ELECTRA project. A cutting-edge initiative addressing the electrification of the Martin 3 S100, a dual seat aircraft with 600Kg MTOW.
ELECTRA's main objective is the development electric power and propulsion components for manned electric aircraft, including vehicles with fixed wing and vertical take-off aircraft capabilities (eVTOL). This project, funded by CDTI, relies on advanced battery technologies, propulsion unit optimization and advanced energy management systems to provide innovative and sustainable solutions for the electric aviation industry.
Dawn of Drones | Episode 125: Sagetech Avionics
This week we continue “Best of 2023” month with our month’s sponsor, Sagetech Avionics, and its CEO Tom Furey, a dynamic and hands-on executive with a passion for leading teams to breakout success in growth industries.
30 Mile True BVLOS Flight – Scalable Operation for all Organizations with Sentaero 5
November 17th - Censys Technologies operated a 30 mile, beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operation without visual observers flying Sentaero 5 over a cellular network in South Florida adjacent to Lake Okeechobee leveraging a performance-based (non-geo constrained) shielded operations waiver.
The mission was a proof of concept (POC) simulaNng data collecNon for algae blooms of a key piece of South Florida’s ecosystem. This use case promotes the value of BLVOS for long linear data collecNon and inspecNons.
Dawn of Drones | Episode 120: ASTN Group
This week on the Dawn of Drones podcast, we continue a “Crossover Tech” focused month sponsored by Kongsberg Geospatial with Rommel Martinez, the Chief Technology Office at ASTN Group. Rommel is an AI researcher with 24 combined years in software engineering, systems administration, and software engineering, who has developed the Valmiz Augmentive Artificial Intelligence.
