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In a Phoenix Laboratory, Honeywell Is Putting Leading-edge Advanced Air Mobility Technology to the Test
The company plans to enlarge the lab, to allow for the development of more flight-control and propulsion technologies.
Honeywell Phoenix UAM lab
Honeywell's urban air mobility laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, includes flight simulators being used to evaluate technologies to support simplified vehicle operations for new eVTOL aircraft. (Photo: Honeywell Aerospace)

Honeywell Aerospace plans to enlarge its urban air mobility laboratory later this year as it steps up collaborative work, now at various stages, with more than a dozen companies in the sector. Stephane Fymat, vice president and general manager of the U.S. group’s Urban Air Mobility and Unmanned Aerial Systems business unit, told a media briefing last week that the facility in Phoenix, Arizona, will be made four times larger to allow for the installation of more test equipment, including hardware-in-the-loop flight simulators.

“To make it a reality...where you have ubiquitous eVTOL air taxi services flying over traffic and small drones delivering medical supplies and food, there are various enabling technologies that have to be researched, tested, and brought to market, and that is where Honeywell is focused,” Fymat told reporters.