A follow-up to "AAM Is the Proving Ground. Next Generation Single Aisle (NGSA) Is the Game." My last post argued that AAM has functioned less as a transportation revolution and more as an industrial proving ground — a place where technologies matured, suppliers sharpened capability, and engineering talent stayed active while the industry waited for what really matters: the next-generation single aisle aircraft. The question I was asked most afterwards was straightforward: Whi

Source: Airbus For years, Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) has been positioned as the disruptor of aviation—a clean-sheet revolution that would redefine how we move through cities and beyond. But the narrative is beginning to falter. The next-generation single-aisle (NGSA) programs led by Airbus and Boeing are quietly reasserting where real gravity in this industry sits. Not because AAM has failed, but because NGSA operates on a fundamentally different level—scale, capital intensi

I’m finishing this piece over breakfast in Miami Beach while roughly 180 million Americans are freezing — stay warm, stay safe. Miami may not be an aerospace hub in the classical sense, but it has a credible shot at becoming an early-mover AAM market. Climate matters. Even peak hurricane season — which reliably shuts down traditional aviation — may actually become a proving ground for eVTOL robustness rather than a showstopper. We’ll come back to the structural market limitat

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