By Bruce Justice, Mingo Messenger
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — The Mingo County Redevelopment Authority joined several of the agency’s collaborating partners at Mingo Central High School on Sept. 18 to give school officials, students and other interested parties a live demonstration of a four-year-in-the-making and first-in-the-state mobile AAM Command & Control Low Altitude Airspace Management Unit.
A project funded in 2023 through a NASA Congressional Direct Spending award of $2.9 million secured by the state’s Congressional representatives, officials said the mobile unit will, in turn, initiate the launch of an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Education Program and be available and used at high schools like Mingo Central to train students for the rapidly growing industry.
Officials are additionally hoping the project will ultimately and ideally help further economic diversification in areas of the state where a once multi-billion dollar coal industry no longer reigns supreme and drives the economy.
Along with MCRA officials, representatives from Vertx Partners, Azimuth, Inc., Sinclair Community College, Marshall University, CalAnalytics and Parallax Advanced Research were on hand for the debut of the technologically-advanced AAM unit and to officially launch the education program.
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