SERVING THE BIG APPLE: The Kearny Heliport

摘要

The helicopter is the ultimate form of point-to-point transportation, but if there is no landing spot close to a passengers' origin or destination, the time-saving benefits are easily lost. The development of new vertical flight infrastructure is often discussed-especially in the context of advanced air mobility (AAM) - as essential for the growth of the industry, but there is often a lack of specificity about how this is actually going to be achieved. The discussion - often bordering on magical thinking - suggests that life would be much easier if local government and big real estate developers took on a large leadership role, but the truth is that most new commercially viable heliports today are built because someone working in the helicopter operating community, individually or as a group, had the vision and entrepreneurial drive to devote years of work (and lots of money) to overcoming a multitude of challenges - one at a time.