Middle East: NextNorth Air Mobility Signs MOU with FlyNow Aviation “to Advance UAM Solutions in MidEast Region”

NextNorth Air Mobil­i­ty, an air­line spe­cial­is­ing in air taxis, and Fly­Now Avi­a­tion, an inno­v­a­tive devel­op­er of mod­u­lar elec­tric eCopters, recent­ly announced a sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) to joint­ly advance Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) solu­tions, with the focus on the Mid­dle East­ern region, reports a press release.

The MOU is a direct out­come of col­lab­o­ra­tive dis­cus­sions and engage­ments at the recent Autonomous e‑Mobility (AEMOB) event held in Doha, Qatar (April 30th to May 2nd).

NextNorth, aside from its role as an air­line look­ing to oper­ate air taxis in the near future, is also com­mit­ted to design­ing, devel­op­ing and oper­at­ing UAM sys­tems and tech­nolo­gies.

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Mean­while, Fly­Now spe­cialis­es in devel­op­ing autonomous fly­ing eCopters for car­ry­ing car­go and pas­sen­gers. “The air­craft aims for qui­et trav­el, ener­gy effi­cien­cy, ergonom­ics, and cost-effec­tive­ness, with plans for a hydro­gen-pow­ered ver­sion in the future,” con­tin­ues the release.

Gema Fer­rero Rubiera, CEO of NextNorth, com­ment­ed, “This MOU marks a sig­nif­i­cant step for­ward in our mis­sion to rede­fine urban trans­porta­tion. By com­bin­ing our exper­tise with Fly­Now’s inno­v­a­tive eCopter tech­nol­o­gy, we are poised to make urban air mobil­i­ty a real­i­ty, espe­cial­ly in the Mid­dle East.”

The col­lab­o­ra­tion aims to devel­op turnkey solu­tions and estab­lish a com­mon under­stand­ing of future inter­ac­tions between air­craft, air traf­fic man­age­ment (ATM), UAM tech­nol­o­gy plat­forms and infra­struc­ture. This is to be car­ried out along­side reg­u­la­tors, ser­vice providers and Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) end-users.

Jür­gen Greil, CEO of Fly­Now Avi­a­tion, added, “We are thrilled to part­ner with Nextnorth to push the bound­aries of urban air mobil­i­ty. Our shared vision will dri­ve the devel­op­ment of effi­cient, sus­tain­able, and scal­able UAM solu­tions, with a spe­cial focus on car­go appli­ca­tions.”

Found­ed in 2021, FlyNow’s eCopter has a flight range of 50 km plus a fur­ther 25 km for secu­ri­ty rea­sons; can trav­el at up to 80 mph and offers sci­ence-fic­tion-look­ing trav­el that oper­ates “at a sound lev­el com­pa­ra­ble to a dish­wash­er.” Both a sin­gle and twin seater craft will become avail­able. The pro­duc­tion of a car­go ver­sion (able to car­ry up to 200kg of weight) should be com­plet­ed with­in 28 months. A pas­sen­ger vari­ant will fol­low soon after.

Yvonne Win­ter, co-Founder and COO of Fly­Now, remarked, “We took inspi­ra­tion from NASA’s Mars Heli­copter, Inge­nu­ity. The eVTOL’s high­ly effi­cient rotor sys­tem enables flight in atmos­pheres with low­er den­si­ty.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://blog.nextnorth.io

https://www.flynow-aviation.com/

(Top image: Yvonne Win­ter and Gema Fer­rero Rubiera Sign­ing the MOU)

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