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By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

February 24, 2022

This week, a partnership led by GKN Aerospace in collaboration with Swanson Aviation Consultancy, Pascall and Watson, and Connected Places Catapult completed the Skybus research project, which has been funded under Phase 2 of the Future Flight Challenge. The work, which began in January 2021, identified opportunities for a potential 30-passenger eVTOL aircraft to operate shuttle flights alongside smaller eVTOL air taxis.

The Skybus partners also developed a concept for a substantial vertiport facility that could be established on the banks of the Thames River in the heart of the UK capital. They published a mockup for this concept that showed the vertiport on the south bank of the river between London Bridge and Tower Bridge.

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