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Falck Plans to Use eVTOL Aircraft for Emergency Response by 2025
The Danish emergency response and healthcare group is already employing drones to support operations worldwide.
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Danish emergency response group Falck is already making extensive use of drones to carry supplies and equipment. (Photo: Falck)

Emergency response and healthcare group Falck says it intends to start using eVTOL aircraft to carry paramedics to accident scenes by 2025. The Denmark-based company already employs drones to support its worldwide operations and is now evaluating new manned aircraft that it feels have the most potential to improve its response to medical emergencies, fires, and other incidents.

In a statement last week, Falck said that it is preparing to start test flights with what it  called “manned drones.” The company said that it is in the process of establishing a partnership with an unnamed “technical partner” to start some trial flights. Several eVTOL developers, including Germany’s Volocopter, China’s EHang, Israel's Urban Aeronautics, and Jaunt Air Mobility in the U.S., intend to offer versions of their aircraft to support emergency response work.