AutoFlight, Groupe ADP Sign MOU for “Experimentation with Prosperity 1 eVTOL Flights” during 2024 Paris Olympics

Aut­oFlight and Groupe ADP, have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) to exper­i­ment with Pros­per­i­ty 1 eVTOL flights dur­ing the Paris Olympic Games 2024, reports a press release. This “explo­ration” will take place at Pon­toise Air­port.

Aut­oFlight intends to show­case the capa­bil­i­ties of its world-record hold­ing 250km-range Lift & Cruise eVTOLs, while Groupe ADP recon­firms its com­mit­ment to launch­ing inno­v­a­tive air mobil­i­ty.

The agree­ment sign­ing took place on Tues­day (June 20th) between Tian Yu (CEO of Aut­oFlight) and Edward Ark­wright (Deputy CEO of Groupe ADP). The col­lab­o­ra­tion aims to high­light AutoFlight’s poten­tial “in scal­ing up sus­tain­able urban logis­tics and pas­sen­ger trans­porta­tion,” explains the release, “under real-world con­di­tions.”

Aut­oFlight is to con­duct exper­i­men­tal pilot­ed flights from the Pon­toise Ver­ti­port which offers a “com­pre­hen­sive infra­struc­ture encom­pass­ing ded­i­cat­ed take-off and land­ing areas, a state-of-the-art pas­sen­ger ter­mi­nal, a ful­ly equipped main­te­nance hangar, and advanced con­trol areas.”

Edward Ark­wright (ADP), Tian Yu (Aut­oFlight CEO), Lukasz Gad­ows­ki (Team Glob­al Investor)

Mark Hen­ning, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Aut­oFlight Europe, com­ment­ed, “Through con­duct­ing exper­i­men­tal pilot­ed flights from the Pon­toise Ver­ti­port, our 250km-range eVTOLs will oper­ate in real-world con­di­tions, high­light­ing their capa­bil­i­ties in urban envi­ron­ments and their invalu­able con­tri­bu­tion to sus­tain­able logis­tics and mobil­i­ty.”

Edward Ark­wright, Deputy CEO of Groupe ADP, added, “This col­lab­o­ra­tion res­onates with our com­mit­ment to deliv­er­ing sus­tain­able and effi­cient air­craft infra­struc­ture as we con­tin­ue to pave the way for the future of avi­a­tion.”

Groupe ADP is spear­head­ing the devel­op­ment of eVTOL infra­struc­ture in the Paris Region with five addi­tion­al ver­ti­ports in the mak­ing:-

: Paris heli­port in Issy-les-Moulin­eaux.

: Paris Auster­litz.

: Paris Charles de Gaulle.

: Paris Le Bour­get.

: Saint-Cyr l’Ecole.

Pros­per­i­ty Fly­ing at Pon­toise

Aut­oFlight’s Pros­per­i­ty I fixed-wing air­craft “leads the pack with a world-record 250 km range and boasts ener­gy con­sump­tion lev­els com­pa­ra­ble to that of an elec­tric car.” The air­craft is one of only a few eVTOL OEMs to have mas­tered the chal­leng­ing ‘tran­si­tion phase’ from ver­ti­cal to hor­i­zon­tal flight, hav­ing done so hun­dreds of times.

This col­lab­o­ra­tion is part of a broad­er frame­work of air mobil­i­ty exper­i­ments that Groupe ADP has formed since 2020. It also con­tributes to the efforts of the Paris Region to posi­tion itself at the fore­front of urban mobil­i­ty.

Aut­oFlight invites atten­dees and indus­try stake­hold­ers to vis­it their Paris Air­show exhi­bi­tion stand at Chalet 200.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.autoflight.com

(Images: Aut­oFlight)