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Challenge Aims To Name Urban Air Mobility Vehicles, Pilots
Urban Air Mobility Names Challenge seeks to find suitable monikers for various elements of urban air mobility, which is sector that has already generated numerous confusing acronyms and definitions in its short history.
Varon
Varon Vehicles is seeking to develop urban air mobility services and infrastructure in several Latin American locations, such as the Columbian city of Cartagena. (Image: Varon Vehicles)

Varon Vehicles and Flight Crowd are challenging all comers to brainstorm suitable and long-lasting names for urban air mobility (UAM) elements, starting with the vehicles and their operators. The Urban Air Mobility Names Challenge is “a call for anyone to propose the best new names for key elements of Urban Air Mobility for which names have not yet been widely adopted,” according to Varon.

Varon is working on plans to provide UAM services in South America and earlier this year announced that it plans to develop a network of vertiport facilities. New names for UAM elements are needed, according to the company, because they “generate industrial cohesion, understanding, and orient public imagination in the same direction.” UAM names should “become universal and…stick in perpetuity” and will be as ubiquitous as “airplane” or “automobile.”