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Boeing and Wisk Issue Concept of Operations for Urban Air Mobility
The document provides a roadmap for the adoption of an urban air mobility ecosystem with pilotless air taxis. 
A schematic diagram illustrating the different aspects of an urban air mobility ecosystem
The new ConOps document from Boeing and Wisk provides a detailed roadmap for the adoption of an urban air mobility ecosystem. (Credit: Boeing)

The Boeing-backed autonomous eVTOL aircraft developer Wisk this week released a concept of operations that provides a roadmap for the adoption of an urban air mobility (UAM) ecosystem with pilotless air taxis. 

Wisk, which was founded in 2019 as a partnership between Boeing and Kittyhawk, is developing a fully autonomous eVTOL air taxi designed to carry up to four passengers on short trips of up to 25 miles (40 kilometers). The California-based company has conducted extensive flight tests with the unpiloted, two-seat eVTOL called Cora, its fifth-generation prototype, and it plans to reveal its sixth-generation aircraft in October.