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Foresight Conference Latest To Consider Explosion of Interest in UAM
Foresight Aerospace's conference in London on December 5, 2019, brought together an intimate gathering of his-profile speakers.
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Foresight Aerospace's conference revealed how little government direction there is on the advantages eVTOL aircraft can deliver in overcoming traffic congestion and pollution, and how little has been done to set standards in areas such as air traffic management. (Rendering: NASA)

Attendees at the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) session during Foresight Aerospace's conference in London on December 5 seemed to agree that issues such as regulation and insurance and air traffic management failings, could stall an industry bursting to bring manned electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft into operation. 

Host Darrell Swanson, director of Swanson Aviation Consultancy, opened the event with an overview of his work on vertiports, including a plan for one near London's Waterloo railway station, while highlighting research on the numerous airfields and other sites around the UK that could be utilized.