Meeting another milestone in the drive towards a drone-friendly UK

A future airspace filled with drones could become a crucial part of the UK economy, boosting the nations wealth by billions of pounds and employing thousands of staff.

However, for this to become a reality, public acceptance must be overwhelming and backed up by examples of societal and economic benefit in both the short and longer term as a future airspace enables airspace optimization and advanced air mobility. It will also be necessary to develop and institutionalise a regulatory, safety and airspace management framework.

This would allow uncrewed, and highly automated aircraft to operate safely in a coordinated, mixed airspace, alongside traditional aircraft and in the vicinity of people, buildings and infrastructure.

For the past 21 months, experts from across UK industry and academia have been working as part of a Future Flight Challenge project called Airspace of the Future (AOF), which is a multi-skilled, cross-sector consortium, created to explore the practicalities and draft a blueprint for making this future vision possible.

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