Lack Of eVTOL Performance Data Makes Designing Vertiports Difficult

Vertiport
A VoloCity air taxi approaches a VoloPort-branded vertiport.
Credit: Volocopter
With limited electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft flight-test data available, the Federal Aviation Administration is limited in its ability to provide guidance as to how vertiports should be safely built. That forced the FAA to provide conservative regulatory guidance to potential...
Garrett Reim

Based in the Seattle area, Garrett covers the space sector and advanced technologies that are shaping the future of aerospace and defense, including space startups, advanced air mobility and artificial intelligence.

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