Volocopter has completed a two-week flight-test campaign as part of Europe’s CORUS-XUAM project to establish how so-called U-Space infrastructure for uncrewed aircraft could be used to support urban air mobility (UAM) flights. The German eVTOL aircraft developer deployed its VoloDrone autonomous vehicle for flight trials that concluded this week at the country’s DLR National Experimental Test Centre for Unmanned Aircraft at Magdeburg-Cochstedt Airport.
The tests focused on harmonizing digital interfaces for both air traffic management (ATM) and unmanned traffic management (UTM) to allow new types of aircraft to be safely integrated into public airspace. CORUS-XUAM receives funding as part of the European Union’s SESAR Horizon 2020 program and is coordinated by the Innovation Hub of ATM agency Eurocontrol. The somewhat contrived acronym stands for Concept of Operations for European UTM Systems—Extension for Urban Air Mobility.
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