Archer Hosts Federal AAM Interagency Working Group, Showcases Live Flight Test

Archer Avi­a­tion host­ed a U.S Fed­er­al Inter­a­gency Work­ing Group on Mon­day (July 3rd) at its flight Test Facil­i­ty in Sali­nas, Cal­i­for­nia, reports 50skyshades.com.

As part of the vis­it, the atten­dees wit­nessed a live flight tri­al of Archer’s first eVTOL Mak­er and learned more about the company’s approach to air­craft design, safe­ty and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. The del­e­ga­tion of fed­er­al stake­hold­ers fea­tured more than 70 rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the DOT, White House, FAA, NASA, FCC, DOD, NTIA and oth­er agen­cies who met with over 20 Archer exec­u­tives. 

The Biden Admin­is­tra­tion formed the Fed­er­al AAM Inter­a­gency Work­ing Group to meet the require­ments of the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Coor­di­na­tion and Lead­er­ship Act, passed by Con­gress and signed into law last Octo­ber.

The arti­cle states, “The work­ing group sup­ports the goal of achiev­ing safe inte­gra­tion of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty into the nation­al air­space and ensur­ing that the U.S. main­tains its glob­al lead­er­ship posi­tion in the aero­space indus­try. This is being done in order to grow new trans­porta­tion options, ampli­fy eco­nom­ic activ­i­ty and jobs, advance envi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and new tech­nolo­gies and sup­port emer­gency pre­pared­ness and com­pet­i­tive­ness.”

The Sali­nas Gath­er­ing

The group’s pri­ma­ry objec­tive is to devel­op a com­pre­hen­sive nation­al strat­e­gy that aligns with the FAA’s goal of achiev­ing the safe inte­gra­tion of AAM into the nation­al air­space by 2025.

Adam Gold­stein, co-Founder and CEO of Archer, com­ment­ed, “It was inspir­ing to see the lev­el of sup­port from across the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment focused on ensur­ing the safe entry of eVTOL air­craft into the U.S mar­ket in 2025. For many of our guests, this was the first time they’ve been able to wit­ness an eVTOL air­craft flight in per­son.” He added, “Our show­case empha­sised just how far along we are, and demon­strat­ed the safe­ty and low noise advan­tages of eVTOL air­craft.”

Watch Video of the Event

https://spaces.hightail.com/space/edUaQHOrDa

Archer has set ambi­tious goals for itself, aim­ing to deploy an impres­sive fleet of 6,000 air­craft by the year 2030, helped by its part­ner­ship with Unit­ed Air­lines, who has already com­mit­ted to pur­chas­ing 100 eVTOL air­craft with, no doubt, many more sales in the future. Togeth­er, they plan to launch “trunk” routes from air­ports to city cen­tres.

Mean­while, Archer’s con­fi­dence with its tech­nolo­gies and vision was high­light­ed at the recent Paris Air­show. Its Mid­night eVTOL Air­craft was a resound­ing hit with both the indus­try atten­dees and, more impor­tant­ly, the pub­lic. The tweet below sums up the com­pa­ny acco­lades and suc­cess it enjoyed.

Mid­night is steal­ing the show in Paris.

Celebri­ties, politi­cians, indus­try lead­ers and influ­encers are all com­ing through in droves to expe­ri­ence Mid­night in its Euro­pean debut as it takes cen­ter stage at the Paris Air Show (@salondebourget). #Pari­sAir­Show pic.twitter.com/UnDKqZQS15

— Archer (@ArcherAviation) June 22, 2023

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.archer.com/midnight

(News Source: 50skyshades.com)

(Images: Archer Avi­a­tion)