Archer hires top engineering talent from Aerion Supersonic as it continues to work towards certification

Archer has brought in more than 20 engi­neers from Aeri­on Super­son­ic as the com­pa­ny looks to bol­ster its work­force ahead of its air­craft design and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion roadmap.

Aeri­on had planned to build a super­son­ic busi­ness jet capa­ble of fly­ing near­ly twice as fast as a com­mer­cial air­craft, but announced it was clos­ing down last month.

Among those join­ing Archer from Aeri­on include Alessan­dra D’Am­brosia-Fur­man, Head of Inte­ri­ors, Ed Barnes, Elec­tro­mag­net­ic Effects Lead, and Jon­hyeob (JY) Shin, Prin­ci­ple Flight Con­trols Engi­neer. Also join­ing Archer are Pedro Car­leial, Head of Sys­tems Engi­neer­ing and Sys­tems Safe­ty, and Mike Ker­ho, Aero­dy­nam­ics Test Engi­neer.

Togeth­er, they have more than 350 col­lec­tive years of indus­try expe­ri­ence, from major OEMs includ­ing Gulf­stream, Bom­bardier, Embraer, Hon­ey­well, Boe­ing and Air­bus.

These hires will bring cru­cial expe­ri­ence to Archer as it works towards FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, in areas such as aero­dy­nam­ics, flight con­trols, avion­ics, struc­tures, sys­tem engi­neer­ing and sys­tem safe­ty and pro­gramme man­age­ment.

Brett Adcock, Archer co-founder and co-CEO, said: “At Archer, we are always search­ing for the best tal­ent in the indus­try to join our team and help us towards our goal of cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and com­mer­cial flight. The newest addi­tions to our engi­neer­ing team bring a deep under­stand­ing of aero­space engi­neer­ing and will serve to keep Archer at the fore­front of the indus­try when it comes to eVTOL devel­op­ment and flight.”

After Archer’s recent unveil­ing of its demon­stra­tion air­craft Mak­er, the com­pa­ny has said its focus mov­ing for­ward is to work towards cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and com­mer­cial launch in 2024. Mak­er will serve as a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion test­bed to also keep push­ing key enabling tech­nolo­gies, with the first flights expect­ed to begin in Q4 2021 and man­u­fac­tur­ing start­ing in 2022.

Already this year, it has announced two city part­ner­ships in Los Ange­les and Mia­mi, a strate­gic part­ner­ship with Stel­lan­tis, as well as a pur­chase order from Unit­ed, and a joint merg­er with Atlas Crest Invest­ment Cor­po­ra­tion.

Adam Gold­stein, Archer co-founder and co-CEO, added: “We are thrilled to wel­come these tal­ent­ed engi­neers to our team to ush­er in the future of cities and sus­tain­able trans­porta­tion. Archer will move peo­ple through­out the world in a quick, safe, sus­tain­able, and cost-effec­tive man­ner.

“We are eager to watch these gift­ed minds blend with our tal­ent­ed team and con­tin­ue pur­su­ing their ambi­tions around trav­el at Archer.”