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Air taxis hold the promise to revolutionize air transportation. NASA is working to make this vision a reality, collaborating with industry to reduce aircraft noise in our communities.<\/p>\n
Quiet flight will be especially important when air taxis and drones take off and land in future airports called vertiports that can be integrated into both rural and urban communities. So, NASA is providing industry with the tools they need to predict noise as they\u2019re designing their vehicles, well before they would apply for certification with the Federal Aviation Administration to fly in the national airspace.<\/p>\n
In summer 2023, researchers from NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland traveled to Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport in Ohio to test an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) taxi produced by Moog. NASA\u2019s team acquired data from the eVTOL during departure, landing, and while it hovered at 60 feet. A Moog operator remotely piloted the aircraft from a nearby ground station.<\/p>\n
This was NASA\u2019s second round of testing with Moog. In 2022, NASA researchers acquired noise data during an initial round of piloted testing, during which the Moog vehicle hovered in one location.<\/p>\n
NASA will use the data from both tests to improve and validate noise prediction tools. The agency will provide both the tools and the dataset to U.S. industry to help with the design of quiet air taxis and drones.<\/p>\n
This research is conducted by NASA\u2019s Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology (RVLT) project of the agency\u2019s Advanced Air Vehicles Program. RVLT supports NASA\u2019s Advanced Air Mobility \u200bMission, which is delivering data to guide the industry\u2019s development of electric air taxis and drones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n