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Baby Steps Toward Urban Air Mobility

For some, urban air mobility is a gradual journey, to others its a race.

Attendees at the Heli-Expo 2020 Urban Air Mobility panel included (from left) James Viola, HAI CEO; Jay Merkel, FAA executive director, UAS Integration Office; Nikhil Goel, Uber head of aviation product; Travis Mason, Airbus v-p of certification and regulatory affairs; Carey Cannon, Bell chief engineer for technology and innovation; and Michael Dyment, founder and managing partner of NEXA Capital Partners.

By Nicolas Zart

January 30, 2020

The Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concept needs to reach beyond the goal of serving urban areas, with new electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft—whether manned or unmanned—ready to serve wherever they are needed, according to Jay Merkle, executive director of FAA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Office. Speaking at Helicopter Association International’s (HAI) UAM Forum in Anaheim, Merkle said the development of regulation and unmanned traffic management (UTM) will have to happen through incremental steps as part of a wider effort to build a complete ecosystem for the new aircraft to operate in and to win public acceptance for UAM.

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