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Advanced Air Mobility Report, November 3, 2021

VOL. 1 NO. 22 November 03, 2021
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Infrastructure

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Cities Begin Setting Protocols For Advanced Air Mobility

Nov 01, 2021
As firm orders for advanced air mobility aircraft begin to grow—to more than 200 this week as indicated in our October orders count—metropolitan areas around the globe are setting up frameworks to help establish and grow AAM capabilities.
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Archer Chooses Miami As Launch City

Nov 02, 2021
West Coast-based Archer Aviation plans to head East to set up a network in Miami, powered by Archer’s electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, and in parallel to its efforts to establish a network in Los Angeles.
Lllium vertiport
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Lilium Expands German eVTOL Network, Eyes UK

Oct 28, 2021
Lilium has added Stuttgart Airport to its planned network of regional air mobility hubs in southern Germany. 
UAM vertiport concept form Rome airport
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Airports Form Company To Develop UAM Vertiports In Europe

Oct 26, 2021
Italian and French airport operators have formed a company, Urban Blue, with international ambitions to design, build and manage the vertiport infrastructure for urban air mobility.
Virgin Atlantic air-taxi concept
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Ferrovial Agrees To Develop UK Vertiports With Vertical

Oct 28, 2021
With target dates for the launch of electric air taxi services drawing closer, more manufacturers are striking deals aimed at ensuring infrastructure will be in place when their aircraft are ready.

Weekly Debrief

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Weekly Debrief: Orders Hit 6,500 For Electric Vehicles

Nov 01, 2021
There are oh-so-many technological challenges remaining for the creators of the electric motors, engines and vehicles that will begin to fly under the banner of advanced air mobility.

Investor Updates

Vertical Aerospace VX-A4
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Vertical Secures More Funds For VA-X4 eVTOL Development

Oct 27, 2021
UK electric air taxi startup Vertical Aerospace has secured additional funding tied to its planned going-public merger with blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition.
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Skyryse Signs Fly-By-Wire Deals With Five OEMs

Oct 27, 2021
Automated flight control system startup Skyryse has raised $200 million in funding and signed partnerships with five fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft manufacturers, including Robinson Helicopter.

Operations

Eve Air UAM helicopter
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Brazil, Japan To Stage Simulated UAM Trials

Oct 26, 2021
Embraer subsidiary Eve Air Mobility will launch a month-long simulated urban-air-mobility (UAM) trial in Brazil on Nov. 8, connecting the affluent coastal suburb of Barra de Tijuca with Rio de Janeiro’s Galeão International Airport.
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Wing Drone Delivery Moves Into Dallas-Fort Worth Area

Oct 26, 2021
Wing is expanding its drone delivery operations from smaller towns into more complex urban areas with plans to begin on-demand store-to-door deliveries in metropolitan Dallas-Fort Worth.
ZeroAvia
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MHI’s CRJ Unit Teams With ZeroAvia On Hydrogen Propulsion

Oct 25, 2021
Startup ZeroAvia has partnered with Mitsubishi’s CRJ support division, MHI RJ Aviation, to develop hydrogen-electric propulsion for regional jets, aiming for market availability in 2028.
Scilly Isles hydrogen tank design
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UK’s Scilly Isles Plan Zero-Emission Hydrogen Air Links

Oct 29, 2021
The Isles of Scilly Steamship Group, an operator of air and sea links to the archipelago off the coast of southwest England, has forged an agreement to bring zero-emission hydrogen flights to the islands.
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U.S. Air Force Establishes eVTOL Training Unit

Oct 29, 2021
The U.S. Air Force has established a detachment to develop training methods and standards for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.

Technology Developments

Umiles air taxi
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Spain’s Umiles Plans Domestic eVTOL Air Taxi

Oct 26, 2021
In July 2019, research and development center Tecnalia in Spain’s Basque region conducted tethered indoor test flights of the prototype of an unusual “drone of drones” design for an autonomous air taxi. Now Spanish unmanned aircraft services provider Umiles has acquired the design from Tecnalia with the goal of producing the first 100% domestically developed electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle.
ZeroAvia Alaska Airlines
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Alaska Air Group, ZeroAvia Team On Hydrogen-Electric Dash 8-400s

Oct 26, 2021
Alaska Air Group and startup ZeroAvia have partnered to develop a liquid-hydrogen fuel-cell power train capable of up to 5 megawatts to power part of Alaska Airlines’ fleet of 76-seat De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 regional turboprops.

Business

ZeroAvia Dornier 228
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ZeroAvia, Rotterdam Airport Partner On Hydrogen Passenger Flights

Oct 27, 2021
Hydrogen-propulsion startup ZeroAvia has partnered with the Royal Schiphol Group to launch zero-emission commercial passenger flights between Rotterdam The Hague Airport and London with a 19-seat aircraft in 2024.

Industry Data