Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office to hold eVTOL exhibition at Haneda Airport

The Tokyo Met­ro­pol­i­tan Gov­ern­ment Office will hold an eVTOL exhi­bi­tion event from 22 to 25 Sep­tem­ber at Hane­da Air­port, one of the largest air­ports in Japan, and also plans to exhib­it mod­els of Japan­ese start­up Sky­Drive.

As well as mod­els and videos by Japan­ese air­lines ANA and JAL, there will be a vir­tu­al real­i­ty (VR) expe­ri­ence and Japan’s aero­space research insti­tute JAXA is also plan­ning an eVTOL work­shop for chil­dren, in addi­tion to an exhi­bi­tion of the mod­el EH216.

The VR Sim­u­la­tor will include a dis­play-type aimed at chil­dren six years old and over for about five min­utes for up to two peo­ple per group, and a gog­gle vehi­cle board­ing type for sin­gle 13 years old and over for about 10 min­utes.

Anoth­er gog­gle type for up to two 13 years old and over for about five min­utes, and
Image VR Sim­u­la­tors by Mit­subishi Elec­tric and Dream On, in coop­er­a­tion with Vol­un­teer organ­i­sa­tions includ­ing Dream On, Deloitte Tohmat­su Con­sult­ing LLC and Mit­subishi Elec­tric Cor­po­ra­tion.

Junior high school stu­dents and above, or ele­men­tary school stu­dents and younger accom­pa­nied by a guardian, can expe­ri­ence a test dri­ve and take a com­mem­o­ra­tive pho­to of a fly­ing car dis­play for about 10 min­utes with up to two peo­ple per group in coop­er­a­tion with Gen­er­al Asso­ci­a­tion MASC. Exhi­bi­tion type con­tent will be dis­played in coop­er­a­tion with ANA Hold­ings, Kane­mat­su, Sky­Drive, Chodai, Sky­ports and Japan Air­lines among oth­ers.

A pan­el exhi­bi­tion on fly­ing cars will also be held in coop­er­a­tion with Hane­da Future Research Insti­tute, Keio Uni­ver­si­ty Fly­ing Car Research Lab­o­ra­to­ry and Japan Aero­space Explo­ration Agency (JAXA) among oth­ers.

There will be a work­shop for third to sixth grade ele­men­tary school stu­dents enti­tled ‘Think of JAXA and fly in the future of air mobil­i­ty’ where they can also expe­ri­ence a test dri­ve of the actu­al machine and a VR sim­u­la­tor for about one-and-a-half hours for up to 32 stu­dents — 16 in the morn­ing ses­sion and 16 in the after­noon ses­sion. The lec­tur­er in charge will be aer­o­bat­ic flight pilot Ms Tomoko Iiji­ma, senior researcher at the Japan Aero­space Explo­ration Agency.