Flight Tests Of eVTOLs Spur FAA To Revise Vertiport Design Guidance

Graham Warwick September 20, 2024

Volocopter testing in Tampa, Florida, helped the FAA decide nonpowered-lift multicopter eVTOLs can land in a smaller area.

Credit: Volocopter
Based on flight tests of several full-scale electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicles, the FAA has issued an update to its interim safety standards for vertiport design and invited public comment on the revised document. When it first issued Engineering Brief (EB) 105 in September 2022...
Graham Warwick

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