Future flight challenge phase 3: strand 2
Founders: -
Funding type: Grant
Total fund: £65 million
Award: £500,000 and £4 millions
Publication date: 11 October 2021
Period: Monday 6 September 2021 - 3 November 2021 11:00am
- Your project must focus on one or more of the following, to demonstrate the operation of vehicles in a representative environment whilst meeting a viable and challenging use case with:
- a real-world use case application which drives integration of the different aviation system elements for each of the three Future Flight vehicle classes
- AAM: Inter-town transport or Intracity Transport
- drone or AAM cargo delivery
- drone or AAM medical delivery
- hub and spoke drone delivery service
- AAM Infrastructure or Vertiport
- automated ground handling and charging systems
- operation of sub-regional electric aircraft
- air traffic management (ATM) and unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems
- digital and communications systems
Not funding projects that:
- are a development of systems or sub-systems for application to large civil passenger aircraft or are standalone aircraft developments
- have no plan for engagement with an end-user or operator
- are developing sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) for gas turbine or turboprop aircraft
- focus on defence or space applications of autonomous or electric flight
- are fundamental research or feasibility study projects
- are dependent on export performance - for example, giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it exports a certain quantity of bread to another country
- are dependent on domestic inputs usage - for example, giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it uses 50% UK flour in their product