Aerion Supersonic partners with Electra.aero to develop ‘global mobility ecosystem’

eSTOL air­craft devel­op­er Electra.aero has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing with Aeri­on Super­son­ic, which will see both com­pa­nies work togeth­er to devel­op a ‘glob­al mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem’.

By com­bin­ing Electra.aero’s eSTOL air­craft with Aerion’s AS2 super­son­ic busi­ness jet, the two com­pa­nies aim to advance devel­op­ment of urban and region­al trans­porta­tion net­works, enabling a faster end-to-end jour­ney and deliv­ered in a seam­less lux­u­ry expe­ri­ence through Aeri­on Con­nect.

Sup­port­ed by lead­ing glob­al part­ners, Aeri­on says that the ecosys­tem will inte­grate and con­nects the point of depar­ture to the point of des­ti­na­tion, opti­mised for high-speed trav­el with dif­fer­ent, inno­v­a­tive modes of trans­porta­tion.

Aeri­on CEO, Pres­i­dent & Chair­man, Tom Vice said: “Our intent at Aeri­on is not just to rede­fine speed and the expe­ri­ence of glob­al trav­el but to build an entire ecosys­tem for point to point mobil­i­ty.”

“We’re also clear that enabling this rein­vent­ed, faster ecosys­tem will require world-class part­ners to achieve suc­cess. Accord­ing­ly, I’m delight­ed to launch this part­ner­ship with Elec­tra and their new gen­er­a­tion of eSTOLs which with their large cab­in, opti­mal range, speed and emis­sions capa­bil­i­ties, will inte­grate seam­less­ly into our vision of the future.”

“Aeri­on and Elec­tra offer the per­fect com­bi­na­tion of speed and con­ve­nience” added Elec­tra CEO John Lang­ford. “Electra’s pow­ered-lift air­craft can bring air ser­vice to areas of less than 100 feet. This will open new oppor­tu­ni­ties to con­nect urban, sub­ur­ban, and remote areas.”

In a press release, it says the two com­pa­nies are unit­ed in a belief that air trav­el should be ‘an enjoy­able, time-effi­cient and lux­u­ri­ous expe­ri­ence again – one that answers cus­tomers’ needs and lifestyles.’

Aeri­on is cur­rent­ly work­ing on its AS2 super­son­ic busi­ness jet, the first one to be designed to be pow­ered by 100 per­cent syn­thet­ic fuel and will be capa­ble of super­son­ic speeds of around 1000mph (Mach 1.4).

The AS2 will be the first air­craft to be assem­bled at Aerion’s new glob­al head­quar­ters in Mel­bourne, Flori­da – Aeri­on Park. The state-of-the-art devel­op­ment, pow­ered by clean ener­gy, will incor­po­rate head­quar­ters oper­a­tions plus an inte­grat­ed cam­pus for research, design, build and sup­port of the company’s new super­son­ic air­craft.

Electra.aero is devel­op­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of elec­tric short take­off and land­ing (eSTOL) air­craft that promise to help shape the future of region­al mobil­i­ty air­craft.

The company’s inno­v­a­tive “pow­ered lift” con­cept will enable Elec­tra air­craft to oper­ate in and out of space cur­rent­ly used for park­ing garages, heli­copter ter­mi­nals, docks, or barges.