FUNDAMENTALS OF ADVANCED AIR MOBILITY

Engineer the complete advanced air mobility system

Advanced air mobility joins electric aircraft, vertiports, charging infrastructure, digital airspace services, and high-tempo operations into one tightly coupled transportation system. This textbook gives engineering students and working professionals a rigorous path from mission definition to integrated deployment.

Beginning with requirements and mission analysis, Elliot Ellison develops the aerodynamics of hover, cruise, and transition; distributed electric propulsion; battery sizing and protection; thermal management; structural loads; flight dynamics; navigation; avionics; communications; cybersecurity; safety assurance; and community noise. Later chapters connect those vehicle disciplines to vertiport planning, grid integration, traffic management, fleet maintenance, operating economics, certification, and multidisciplinary design trades.

Inside you will find

• Step-by-step derivations with variables and units defined
• Worked engineering examples grounded in distinct eVTOL missions
• Technical diagrams that clarify architectures, loads, flows, and decision logic
• Chapter problems with answers for independent practice
• System-level methods for balancing performance, safety, noise, infrastructure, and cost

The result is a practical engineering reference for readers who need more than a vehicle overview. It shows how aircraft design choices propagate into charging demand, vertiport throughput, airspace capacity, maintenance burden, certification evidence, and commercial viability.