Urban Air Mobility challenge set up by Varon Vehicles and Flight Crowd to choose names for eVTOLs and operators

Varon Vehi­cles has cre­at­ed an Urban Air Mobil­i­ty Names Chal­lenge, which is accept­ing entries for key ele­ments in the grow­ing indus­try which has­n’t yet been wide­ly adopt­ed.

The chal­lenge has been pow­ered by Flight Crowd and is seek­ing names for the air­craft and their on-board oper­a­tors. Any­one can pro­pose names and vote for favourites, with no dead­line in place until a win­ner is declared.

Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder of Varon Vehi­cles, said: “Urban Air Mobil­i­ty is a nascent indus­try and it is in need for rad­i­cal new names that define it, that become uni­ver­sal and that stick in per­pe­tu­ity.

“Names gen­er­ate indus­tri­al cohe­sion, under­stand­ing and ori­ent pub­lic imag­i­na­tion in the same direc­tion. Our com­pa­ny is expec­tant about what these new ubiq­ui­tous names will be — the next air­plane, the next auto­mo­bile.”

Com­ment­ing on Varon Vehi­cles’ part­ner­ship with Flight Crowd, he added: “Their wide knowl­edge of aero­space indus­try, its his­to­ry and their mul­ti­ple edu­ca­tion­al tools and resources are instru­men­tal in the eval­u­a­tion of Names for the UAM Names Chal­lenge. They will aid in deter­min­ing eli­gi­bil­i­ty, pre-selec­tion and back­ground of pro­posed names. Flight Crowd also con­tributes to the struc­tur­ing of the spe­cif­ic chal­lenges.”

There is no lim­it to the amount of names any­body can enter, and pre-selec­tion will hap­pen when­ev­er there are out­stand­ing Names pro­posed. Pre-selec­tion will be based on the fol­low­ing cri­te­ria:

• Orig­i­nal­i­ty
• Sound­ness, Rel­e­vance and Long-Term Applic­a­bil­i­ty
• Pro­nun­ci­a­tion in many lan­guages and musi­cal­i­ty
• Pub­lic Vote

Pre-select­ed names will be run by actu­al advanced air mobil­i­ty indus­try part­ners to sense their over­all attrac­tion and accep­tance to firm­ly adopt the Name. Once cho­sen, the win­ning name will also be adopt­ed for use by Varon Vehi­cles and pro­posed to their broad indus­try part­ners ecosys­tem, media and stake­hold­ers, for wide and gen­er­al­ized adop­tion.

Win­ning names will also be includ­ed in Flight Crowd’s Urban Air Mobil­i­ty Glos­sary, a grow­ing indus­try effort to com­pile key Urban Air Mobil­i­ty terms.

To sub­mit your entries and for more infor­ma­tion about the rules and selec­tion cri­te­ria, vis­it www.varonvehicles.com/names-challenge.

You can also access the links on Flight Crowd’s web­site, which is www.flight-crowd.com