Airbus Helicopters has started in-flight tests onboard the European aerospace group's rotary-wing Flightlab facility. The platform-agnostic flying laboratory is being used to mature new advanced air mobility technologies for the company’s current helicopters and possible future fixed-wing and eVTOL aircraft designs.
Specifically, Flightlab will be used to test hybrid and electric propulsion, autonomy, noise reduction, and improved maintenance and safety technologies. Flight tests on noise reduction began in April 2020 focused on buildings’ impact on people’s sound perception with a view toward applying the data to sound modeling and regulation of urban air mobility (UAM) aircraft. Later flights in December concentrated on evaluating the rotor strike alerting system.
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