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Blade Air Mobility, Inc. (stylized as BLADE) is an aviation company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. Blade's urban air mobility platform provides air transportation for passengers and last-mile critical cargo, [2] [3] primarily using helicopters and amphibious aircraft for passenger routes in the United States, Canada, Southern Europe, and India, in addition to ...
Urban air mobility is a subset of a broader advanced air mobility (AAM) concept that includes other use cases than intracity passenger transport; [1] NASA describes advanced air mobility as including small drones, electric aircraft, and automated air traffic management among other technologies to perform a wide variety of missions including ...
Advanced air mobility (AAM) are systems that incorporate support for next-generation transport such as such as remotely piloted, autonomous, or vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This includes those powered by electric or hybrid-electric propulsion.
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Urban Air was an aircraft manufacturer based in the Czech Republic. [1] The company was a manufacturer of light sport and ultralight aircraft and employed 40 people. The company was founded in 1998 by five partners. Their first prototype made its inaugural flight in May 1996, thus pre-dating the company by two years.
Data from World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12 and Distar General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one passenger Length: 6.6 m (21 ft 8 in) Wingspan: 13 m (42 ft 8 in) standard, 15 m (49.2 ft) with optional wing tips Height: 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) Wing area: 12.16 m 2 (130.9 sq ft) Empty weight: 285 kg (628 lb) Gross weight: 472.5 kg (1,042 lb) Fuel capacity: 100 litres (22 imp gal; 26 ...
The Urban Air Samba is a Czech designed and built light aircraft of the 1990s which incorporates composite construction. It remained in series production in 2017. [1] Production of the Urban Air's designs, including the Samba, was taken up by Distar Air of Ústí nad Orlicí, Czech Republic in about 2010. [1] [2]
Star Alliance is an airline alliance headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. [5] Founded on 14 May 1997, it was the world's first global airline alliance. [1] As of April 2024, it is also the world's largest airline alliance by market share, holding 17.4%, compared to 13.7% for SkyTeam and 11.9% for Oneworld.