Uber Elevate Project “Right On Target” Written 23 January 2020

Aviation Today reports that Uber believes that it is “right on target” in its efforts to establish its Elevate aerial rideshare service. At the Transformative Vertical Flight conference, Uber Director of Aviation Engineering Mark Moore “moved the conversation away from building and certifying the all-new class of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and towards other challenges.” He said, “We’re entering the next phase of Elevate, which is all about the preparation of cities for these incredible vehicles which we’re all realizing are very real and well along the path of certification.” Uber Air is “slated to launch in Los Angeles, Dallas and Melbourne in 2023.” However, the “significant challenges” such as the need for FAA aircraft certification remain. FAA Aircraft Certification Office Director of Policy and Innovation Mike Romanowski said at the conference that the FAA has “about 70 different [certification] projects that we’re working at a reasonable level of rigor … of those, probably 15, maybe a dozen, are in the eVTOL regime. We’re actually physically laying out the pathway to certification requirements.”
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