The commercial passenger market for the civil tiltrotor was examined in phase 2. A market responsive commercial tiltrotor was found to be technically feasible, and a significant worldwide market potential was found to exist for such an aircraft, especially for relieving congestion in urban area-to-urban area service and for providing cost effective hub airport feeder service. Potential technical obstacles of community noise, vertiport area navigation, surveillance, and control, and the pilot/aircraft interface were determined to be surmountable. Nontechnical obstacles relating to national commitment and leadership and development of ground and air infrastructure were determined to be more difficult to resolve; an innovative public/private partnership is suggested to allow coordinated development of an initial commercial tiltrotor network to relieve congestion in the crowded US Northeast corridor by the year 2000.
Civil Tiltrotor Missions and Applications. Phase 2: The Commercial Passenger Market
1991
59 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Air Transportation , Air traffic , Air transportation , Airline operations , Market research , Passenger aircraft , Tilt rotor aircraft , Transportation networks , Aircraft configurations , Airports , Area navigation , Congestion , Cost effectiveness , Noise intensity , Noise pollution , Operating costs
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