One of Florida’s busiest general aviation airports is dedicating a chunk of airspace to study the operation of eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) air taxis, autonomous drones, and other novel aviation technologies.
Miami Executive Airport (KTMB) has one of the nation’s first agreements to host demonstrations of these aircraft. It will begin testing the integration of small drones within a cordoned off section of the airport, away from active runways. Ultimately, large eVTOL aircraft will join the effort.
“The technology is here,” Darrell Bell, CEO of Bell-Dancy Industries (BDI), told FLYING. “It’s just the testing, the certification, and then the safety aspects that we want to really establish and solidify.”…