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Quiet eVTOL Flights Will Be the Benchmark For Olympic Gold at Paris 2024 Games
Volocopter is using advanced air mobility preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games to assess eVTOL performance characteristics including aircraft noise.
Volocopter VoloCity could operate air taxi flights for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Volocopter VoloCity could be one of several eVTOL aircraft providing air taxi flights for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in a bid to build public acceptance of this mode of transportation. (Image: Volocopter)

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games should open to loud fanfare in late July of that year. If the preparations being made by the 30 partners in the Re.Invent Air Mobility Challenge go as well as those being undertaken by the world’s athletes, the event could feature eVTOL vehicles providing transportation between Olympic sites across the French capital.

The program’s key backers—Choose Paris Region, Aéroports de Paris (ADP), and ground transportation group RATP—clearly hope the exercise will have a big impact on public attitudes toward advanced air mobility (AAM) services, but for this to be positive, the flights will need to be very visible but barely audible. Given the often-negative public perception of helicopter noise in European cities, the noise output from the eVTOL air taxis will be as closely monitored as the start of the 100-meter sprint final.