Nick Klenske

Nick Klenske writes about science, technology and innovation, with a particular focus on aerospace. His work covers such subjects as business and commercial aviation, Urban Air Mobility (UAM), drones/UAVs, air traffic control, Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM), GNSS, satellite navigation, defense, and space exploration – among others. He has lived and worked in both the U.S. and Europe and has written for both the private and public sectors, including the European Commission. He currently lives in Chicago.

Special Reports

Air Traffic Management

Autonomous eVTOL aircraft join drones in posing air traffic management challenges

Regulators and air traffic management agencies already face a challenge integrating unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, into controlled airspace. But now, passenger-carrying electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are demanding access too, and some of them will be operated autonomously without a pilot. So how will the system cope with what's being called unmanned traffic management?