New conference strives for VTOL focus
With companies such as Boeing sponsoring competitions, members of Congress calling hearings on the future of American aviation, and aerospace leadership and major stakeholders in aviation backing some 150 different aircraft development flights, it seems inevitable that a vision of urban air mobility (UAM) will crystallize in just a few years.
The challenge is keeping track of who’s who and where do we go from here in the vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) category.
To help bring focus to the movement, Aviation Week Network is hosting the Urban Air Mobility Conference April 9 and 10 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
The agenda includes subjects from a UAM forecast and a panel discussion by airframers to the impact on air traffic control and airport infrastructure. And, of course, a discussion on the regulatory side about how these unusual aircraft will become legal to fly.
In addition to Bell, companies such as Embraer X, Terrafugia, EHang, and Airbus will be at the event.
Aviation Week is offering AOPA members a 30-percent discount off the $1,195 registration fee. Use discount code: AOPA2UAM at the registration site.
