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Urban Air Mobility Flight Trials Will Be Staged in Toulouse and Bordeaux
The TindAIR group says a "very large-scale demonstration" of urban air mobility operations will start in the French cities in 2022.
Airbus E-Fan X Toulouse
The French city of Toulouse, headquarters for Airbus, will stage a large-scale demonstration of urban air mobility operations in 2022. These will not feature the now-canceled electric E-Fan X program illustrated here. (Image: Airbus)

The French cities of Bordeaux and Toulouse will host extensive trials for urban air mobility (UAM) operations in the spring and summer of 2022. The TindAIR project, which stands for Tactical INstrumental Deconfliction And in flight Resolution, will be coordinated by French artificial intelligence specialist Innov’ATM on behalf of Eurocontrol’s Single European Sky ATM Research (Sesar) program.

The work focuses primarily on the integration of unmanned aircraft into existing airspace, but it also aims to address the needs of eVTOL aircraft applications such as air taxi services. The project, which was described in a March 25 announcement as “a very large-scale demonstration,” will assess the impact of increasing degrees of autonomous flight, including remote piloting, that are anticipated for aircraft in the UAM sector.