After the maxi Italian conference on drones-taxis, in fact the first summit on the mobility of the future, in Singapore Volocopter, pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), has successfully completed its first manned flight over Marina Bay. Government authorities including the Ministry of Transport (MOT), the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and the Economic Development Board (EDB) have supported Volocopter in this sensitive testing phase and will continue to do so in the future. because the goal is ambitious: to bring commercial air taxi services to Singapore. A revolution that will make it possible to solve all traffic problems and eliminate transport times between large airports and the city center.
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For the test, a 2X model was used that covered a distance of about 1.5 km and was in flight for two minutes at an average cruising height of 40 meters. An absolute record for an air taxi: “Never before have people been so close to experiencing what urban air mobility will be like in the city of tomorrow”, explained Florian Reuter, CEO of Volocopter. they had always occurred – for obvious safety reasons – on the sea or on the desert, never on a city: in short, the safety level of these gigantic drones is starting to be of a high level.The future of urban mobility has just begun.
And this first flight will be one of the main topics of the next “Rome Drone Conference 2021” scheduled for Thursday 18 November at the headquarters of the EBU, the European University of Rome, in via degli Aldobrandeschi 190. “A conference that looks to the future – explain the organizers – who for this edition have chosen to put the future of aviation at the center of the debate through the analysis of the market and the opportunities related to the use of drones. “The event will be divided into two sessions: in the first part of the event there will be a round table composed of numerous experts in the sector, companies and professionals who will analyze the situation of the drone market in our country after the entry into force of the new European and Italian regulations. a further technical discussion table in which the prospects related to the use of drones in the future Air Mobility will be examined.
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