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NASA Adds More Partners to its Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign
The program is intended to promote public confidence and accelerate the realization of emerging aviation markets for passenger and cargo transportations in urban, suburban, rural and regional environments
Electra is developing an eSTOL aircraft to land and take off from surfaces of less than 300 feet long.
Electra says that its hybrid-electric eSTOL will need no more than 300 feet of runway to land and takeoff in cities. (Image: Electra)

Four more companies are joining NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign and are cleared to start exchanging information with 30 existing program partners ahead of the start of its second phase. The new partners are eSTOL aircraft developer Electra Aero, eVTOL vehicle companies Overair and Supernal, and transportation technology consultants Ellis & Associates.

The first phase of the National Campaign involves a series of tests focused on operational safety involving eVTOL aircraft, automation, airspace management, acoustics modeling, concepts of operations, flight contingencies, and mobile landing surfaces. NASA says the overall purpose of the work is to, “promote public confidence and accelerate the realization of emerging aviation markets for passenger and cargo transportations in urban, suburban, rural and regional environments.”