AFRL To Test Air Traffic Management For Drones, eVTOLs

The CLUE UTM system will be used to verify that drones and eVTOLs can safely fly in the same airspace together.

Credit: AFRL
Afwerx and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Information Directorate recently installed an Uncrewed Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) system at Eglin AFB, Florida, to test coordinating and deconflicting the flights of drones and electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL)...
Garrett Reim

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