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Aussie Skyportz’s vertiport database reflects global UAM ambitions

Bruce Crumley - Sep. 15th 2022 4:38 am PT @BDroneDJ

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Just a week after Australian vertiport company Skyportz announced its plans to create the country’s first network of air taxi terminals in Melbourne, the company unveiled a database analyzing and cataloguing potential spots for urban air mobility (UAM) infrastructure worldwide.

Skyportz unveils Oz’s first network of air taxi and UAM vertiports

Bruce Crumley - Sep. 13th 2022 3:21 am PT @BDroneDJ

Australia air taxis UAM vertiport

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Australian advanced urban mobility (UAM) infrastructure company Skyportz has unveiled plans to create the first series of air taxi vertiports in the country.

Alumnus of Oz’s SheMaps uses drone to preserve Aboriginal traditions

Bruce Crumley - Jul. 14th 2022 5:55 am PT @BDroneDJ

Drones for good Australia Drone Mapping surveying and mapping

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Score another drones-for-good point for Australia’s UAV and geospatial education provider SheMaps, whose aerial tech introduction and training have led a young Queensland woman to take to the skies in an effort to safeguard the history of the Aboriginal Koko-Muluridji people’s Wallara clan.

Wisk prepares for self-flying air taxi service in Oz’s Queensland

Bruce Crumley - Jun. 13th 2022 1:11 am PT @BDroneDJ

Australia air taxis AAM Wisk Summer Olympics

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Next-generation aircraft manufacturer Wisk Aero is expanding its preparations for autonomous air taxi services beyond the US in cooperation with officials in Australia’s Queensland to bring advance air mobility (AAM) transport to the state.

Swoop Aero turns down $100M takeover bid to raise $16M in Series B funding

Ishveena Singh - Jun. 7th 2022 1:14 am PT @IshveenaSingh

Drone Delivery Australia Swoop Aero

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After over two years of continuous medical drone delivery operations across Africa, Australia’s Swoop Aero has completed a $16 million Series B funding round. But what’s even more impressive is that the logistics startup had the confidence to reject a $100 million takeover offer from a US-based defense company, halfway through the round.

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SKYMAGIC to stage record-setting drone show at Vivid Sydney

Bruce Crumley - May. 26th 2022 3:54 am PT @BDroneDJ

Australia drone shows Skymagic

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Leading drone show conceptualization and performing company, SKYMAGIC, will be at work this Sunday for the return of the Vivid Sydney creative festival, where a record 600 UAVs will light up the sky in a choreographed spectacle.

Aussie Skyportz’s vertiport database reflects global UAM ambitions

Skyportz unveils Oz’s first network of air taxi and UAM vertiports

Alumnus of Oz’s SheMaps uses drone to preserve Aboriginal traditions

Wisk prepares for self-flying air taxi service in Oz’s Queensland

Swoop Aero turns down $100M takeover bid to raise $16M in Series B funding

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SKYMAGIC to stage record-setting drone show at Vivid Sydney