Whisper Aero emerges from stealth to quiet drones and air taxis
The skies are on the cusp of getting busier– and louder– as drone delivery and electric vertical liftoff and landing passenger airplane startups move from moonshot to commercialization. One former NASA engineer and ex-director of Uber’s air taxi department is establishing tech to ensure that more air traffic does not equivalent more sound. Mark […] The U.S. Army recently undertook a research study confirming that eVTOL rotors produce more of a type of sound referred to as broadband, rather than tonal noise which is produced by helicopters. Image Credits: Whisper Aero( opens in a brand-new window)Helicopters have mostly been able to get away with their horrible noise profile because they are used so rarely. From there, the startup imagines launching in the small drone market around 2023, prior to scaling gradually up to air taxis. …
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