Flying Vehicle Maker Teams With Software CompanyFlying Vehicle Maker Teams With Software Company

Electric Aerial Vehicle (EAV) maker FlyNow Aviation has agreed to work with software development company Lyneports to jointly work to move advanced air mobility (AAM) forward.

The goal is to combine Lyneport advanced geospatial software with FlyNow eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) vehicle technology to navigate site location identification and flight simulations aligned with regulatory frameworks.

FlyNow and Lyneports agreed to integrate the FlyNow EAVs into Lyneports software, enable vertiport planning in line with various regulatory frameworks and create flight simulations with FlyNow flying vehicles. 

"FlyNow is keen to join hands with Lyneports to integrate digital twin and AI technologies for a safe infrastructure planning,” said Yvonne Winter, co-founder and chief operating officer of FlyNow Aviation. “This collaboration underscores our shared commitment to advancing next-generation urban air mobility through innovative and reliable solutions." 

The Austrian-based FlyNow Aviation makes a cargo and a passenger version of its flying vehicle, referred to as an eCopter, since it is all electric.

The cargo, single and two-seater version of the eCopter can travel at 80 mph, has a range of 30 miles and a maximum flight time of 30 minutes.

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The single-seater EAV was displayed by FlyNow at Driftx in Abu Dhabi last year, drawing crowds and high interest.

The vehicle has no internal controls and would operate effectively as a passenger-carrying drone. 

At the Abu Dhabi event, Bayanet, a major sponsor of DriftX that provides AI-powered geospatial technology, created a digital twin of FlyNow so attendees could virtually fly the EAV.

The EAV is designed for short location-to-location trips. 

“The range extends from supplying sailors on container ships, which often do not go ashore at all, to remote alpine huts to bridging a traffic bottleneck like the Bosporus in Istanbul,” stated FlyNow. “Instead of laboriously circumnavigating e.g. Lake Constance, drones can fly directly from one shore to the other. The same applies to cities on rivers and by the sea.”

FlyNow plans to start with the cargo version of the vehicle followed by the passenger carrying version.

Certifications would be expected to be similar to those of helicopters.