NASA is conducting investigations in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) aircraft and operations.
AAM missions are characterised by ranges below 300 nm, including rural and urban …

Transportation in cities may undergo substantial changes due to two emerging technologies
that enable three-dimensional movement of people or cargo. These emerging technologies …

This paper demonstrates an integrated approach to the sizing and analysis of all-electric,
hybrid-electric, and turboelectric variants of a lift-plus-cruise urban air mobility vertical takeoff …

Several companies are developing enabling elements of urban air mobility (UAM) for air
taxis, including prototypes of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles. These …

Blade element momentum methods are widely used for initial aerodynamic analysis of
propellers and wind turbines. A wide variety of correction methods exist, but common to all …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-0324. vid To fulfill the vision for
large-scale urban air mobility, air-taxi concepts must be carefully designed and optimized for …

This paper demonstrates parametric definition and sizing of all-electric and hybrid-electric
variants of a dual-purpose ducted fan lift-plus-cruise aircraft configuration. The dual roles …

This paper demonstrates integrated vehicle and propulsion system sizing and performance
analysis using Parametric Energy-Based Aircraft Configuration Evaluator, an aircraft sizing …

The advent of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has necessitated a paradigm shift in aircraft design
from traditional regression methods to physics-based analysis and the use of modern …

This paper describes the application of a research and development pipeline at the Vehicle
Systems, Dynamics, and Design Laboratory to the design, fabrication, and flight testing of a …