Taxi volant Volocopter conquiert Paris pour convaincre

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Volocopter, une entreprise allemande, prévoit de voler au-dessus de Paris en toute sécurité et sans causer de nuisances sonores. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 Volocopter, a German company, plans to fly over Paris safely and without causing any

00:05 sound damage.

00:06 Despite the opposition of the Parisian elected officials, the company intends to take advantage

00:11 of the opportunity offered by the Olympic Games to fly in the French capital for two

00:14 years in order to convince of the interest of flying taxis.

00:17 "Noise, safety and durability are the most important criteria for flying over

00:22 a city," explains its owner Durkoc in an interview with AFP.

00:27 "And with strict regulation regulating air traffic above the French capital, if

00:32 you can fly in Paris, you can fly in any city in the world," he says.

00:37 Its Volocity, an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (EVTOL), is a two-seater

00:43 aircraft with the look of a big insect crowned by 18 rotors.

00:46 Volocopter intends to be the first in the world to be certified by the ASA and the FA,

00:52 the European and American air security agencies.

00:54 The goal is to be certified to fly this summer in Paris, according to Durkoc.

01:00 For this, test flights are being carried out, the documentation is being accumulated in

01:04 order to demonstrate that the aircraft has the same level of safety as a straight-line

01:08 aircraft, 100 times superior to that of a helicopter.

01:10 In collaboration with the management of Aéroports Group ADP, the RATP and the Île-de-France

01:16 region, Volocopter intends to fly it on five routes, two tourist loops around

01:20 Ici-les-Moulinots and the Bourget airport, and links linking Ici-les-Moulinots to Saint-Cyr-les-Camps.

01:24 In the school area, near Versailles, the Bourget at the Roicy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport and

01:28 Ici-les-Moulinots at a barge on the Seine located near the Austerlitz station in Paris.

01:33 Count a dozen minutes for a flight of 20 km.

01:36 Gain confidence.

01:38 Will the precious sesame be discerned in time?

01:41 We don't know, because we're the first, what we know.

01:45 By default, Volocopter can hope to obtain a special permit from the ASA to allow it

01:50 to fly demonstration flights without passengers paying during the games.

01:53 But beyond the Olympic showcase, the important thing for the leader is the two years of

01:58 experimentation of a handful of VoloCity in Paris that will follow the certification.

02:02 A learning phase intended to demonstrate that these systems are not fiction in order

02:08 to gain the confidence of the population.

02:10 Early September, the French environmental authority had deemed incomplete the study

02:15 of the impact of the future experimental taxi base planned on the Seine, called Vertiport,

02:20 causing sound and visual pollution.

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