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Christchurch, New Zealand – 24 September 2024 – On Day 1 of New Zealand’s 2024 Aeromed Conference, Life Flight New Zealand has signed a partnership agreement with Australian zero emissions aircraft designer and manufacturer, AMSL Aero, to support future aeromedical operations in Australasia using AMSL Aero’s Vertiia hydrogen-electric Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft.

The partnership with Life Flight marks a major milestone for AMSL Aero and Vertiia in New Zealand...

Sydney’s Bankstown Airport, which had the fourth highest number of aircraft movements in the country in the year to June 30, issupplying hydrogen on-site for AMSL Aero, which is developing an emissions free vertical takeoff and landing aircraft capable of flying 1000km...

Urban air mobility is coming, a new phenomenon in which small electric vertical take-off and landing craft – eVTOLs, or air taxis for short – are designed to speed small numbers of passengers over short distances above large, congested cities in a fraction of the time they would take on the ground...

Catching an electric helicopter to Brisbane in just 20 minutes sounds like a futuristic dream.. but air taxis are only a few years away!

While the race to transform electric vehicles on land speeds up, it is a different story in the sky.

Battery technology is not yet able to power even the smallest aircraft beyond 200 kilometres, and in Australia, that is hardly worth the effort.

But an Australian aviation startup on a mission to decarbonise air travel is developing a battery that could power a small aircraft to travel 1,000 km using hydrogen, and it already has a customer...