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Advanced Air Mobility Report, June 30, 2021

VOL. 1 NO. 4 June 30, 2021
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Business

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Interview With Adam Grosser, UP.Partners Chairman

Jun 25, 2021
UP.Partners is an early-stage venture capital company focused on funding startups developing enabling technologies for advanced mobility. UP was established in January 2020 by Ben Marcus and Cyrus Sigari, co-founders of private jet dealer jetAVIVA and drone airspace services provider AirMap.
Maker
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Archer Retaliates In eVTOL Legal Dispute With Wisk

Jun 25, 2021
The dispute between eVTOL-developers Wisk and Archer Aviation over intellectual property escalated on June 23 as Archer filed a counterclaim.
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Boeing’s Calhoun On AAM

Jun 25, 2021
In an exclusive interview with Aviation Week, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun commented on a variety of strategic initiatives, including advanced air mobility.  “Wisk is probably the highest on our list as a program I want to do and double down on,” Calhoun says. “It’s electric. It displaces an incredibly inefficient market on urban mobility. Its real big win is noise—this virtually takes noise out of the equation.
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Agility Prime Selects Electra To Further eSTOL Capability

Jun 25, 2021
The U.S. Air Force and its Agility Prime team have signed a contract with Electra to further advance the company’s development of hybrid-electric propulsion systems for electric ultrashort takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft. 
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Qarbon To Manufacture Lift’s Hexa eVTOL

Jun 21, 2021
Qarbon Aerospace, formerly Triumph Aerospace Structures, is to produce Lift Aircraft’s Hexa single-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
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Jet It, JetClub Become eFlyer 800 Turboprop Launch Customers

Jun 21, 2021
Fractional ownership companies Jet It and JetClub are the launch customers for Bye Aerospace’s eight-seat, all-electric twin turboprop aircraft, the eFlyer 800.

Weekly Debrief

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Weekly Debrief: Automotive Or Aerospace: Who Will Take The Battery Lead?

Jun 25, 2021
Are the aerospace and automotive industries approaching a parting of the ways on battery technology?

Infrastructure

Skyports
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Eve Expands UAM Vertiport Relationship With Skyports

Jun 23, 2021
Infrastructure alliances are forming as the launch of advanced air mobility draws nearer.
Paris
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Volocopter Takes First Step Toward Paris UAM

Jun 21, 2021
Volocopter conducted a remotely controlled flight of its 2X prototype at Le Bourget Airport outside Paris on June 21, the first in France by an eVTOL vehicle.

Operations

Blade
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Embraer’s Eve To Provide eVTOLs For Blade UAM

Jun 24, 2021
Embraer subsidiary Eve Urban Air Mobility has agreed to supply Blade with 60,000 flight hours a year of service in Southern California and the West Coast beginning in 2026.
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Dufour Aerospace, AirMobility To Enter Japanese eVTOL Market

Jun 25, 2021
Dufour Aerospace has signed on with AirMobility Inc. to enter the Japanese electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) market in time for the 2025 Osaka Expo.

Who's Where

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Who’s Where

Jun 25, 2021
Former Airbus CEO joins Lilium; Archer hires former Aerion engineers

Technology Development

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EP Systems Targets Certification In 2022 For Propulsion Batteries

Jun 22, 2021
For a five-year-old startup, EP Systems has already accumulated unrivaled experience in designing energy storage systems for electric aircraft.
GM
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Liebherr, GM To Demo Fuel-Cell Power Generation For Aircraft

Jun 21, 2021
The integrated demonstrator, customized to the performance and economic requirements of commercial aircraft, will be built at a Liebherr system integration testing laboratory in Toulouse.

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Industry Data