fotokredit Sebastian Thomas Bay, courtesy HCA Airport
Danish Partnership to Deliver eVTOL Transportation to Denmark
by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian M. Crosby
A brand new partnership has been shaped between HCA Airport in Odense and Copenhagen Helicopter to determine infrastructure for electrical vertical take-off and touchdown plane (eVTOL) to move passengers between Denmark’s largest cities.
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The aim of the partnership is to offer Denmark with a eVTOL prototype by this summer season, and afterwards develop a number of vertiports in Odense.
fotocredit DuFour, courtesy HCA Plane
“I foresee that in just a few years’ time you may take the sunshine rail to Odense Station and from there take a flying taxi to Copenhagen or different Danish cities. Now could be the time to start out constructing a model new infrastructure based mostly initially on manned flying taxis that fly on inexperienced energy and contribute to the federal government’s aim of reaching 100% inexperienced home transport by 2030,” mentioned HCA Airport Chairman Kim Kenlev. “I see nothing stopping us from flying to cities like Gothenburg, Hamburg or Berlin sooner or later. Superior Air Mobility is excessive on the agenda all over the place, and these cities are inside attain of those flying taxis.”
The partnership goals to deliver overseas AAM operators to HCA Airport, both by testing and demonstration actions or long run service and upkeep. HCA Airport is already house to the UAS Denmark Check Heart, an internationally acknowledged drone take a look at website.
“Superior Air Mobility relies on a brand new revolution in aviation that claims goodbye to fossil fuels in favour of electrification and biofuels – which we already know from the transition from conventional automobiles to hybrid and electrical automobiles and later self-driving automobiles. It gives a complete new alternative to move individuals every day through the skies, whereas lowering greenhouse gasoline emissions, lowering noise ranges and rather more,” mentioned Copenhagen Helicopter CEO Martin Andersen.
fotocredit DuFour, courtesy HCA Airport
Andersen states Copenhagen Helicopter’s calculations point out that the AAM area has the potential to move 84,000 passengers per day and take away 120,000 tonnes of CO2 from Danish roads by 2035.
“This might properly be the start of what is going to be a complete new approach of transporting ourselves and items sooner or later. We are able to see that different international locations and cities are already approach forward, and Denmark and Odense should after all additionally comply with this pattern. The flying taxis of the longer term can fly on inexperienced energy produced by Danish offshore wind generators, they usually might help shift visitors away from the roads,” mentioned Odense mayor Peter Rahbæk Juel. “Funen’s robotics journey started with some proficient engineers from the College of Southern Denmark and a metropolis that dared to suppose large and take a danger. In the identical approach, I see this as the primary steps in direction of a brand new enterprise enterprise that may hopefully generate jobs, contribute to the inexperienced transition and create a complete new approach of transporting individuals.”
Nations reminiscent of Korea and Germany already possess superior frameworks for the introduction of flying taxis. Seoul has plans for normal drone flights throughout town as quickly as 2025, whereas in Germany an Airbus-led partnership together with Deutsche Bahn, Munich Airport and Telekom is pursuing the implementation of flying taxis between German cities. A complete of €86 million has been earmarked for this mission over the subsequent three years.
In the meantime within the US, early in 2022 Boeing invested $450 million in Wisk Aero, a Silicon Valley firm within the strategy of growing a self-flying propeller plane.
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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he acquired a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in expertise, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a workers author.
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