The Electric VTOL News™, Vol 4, No 15, Aug 30, 2019
Welcome to our latest eVTOL eNewsletter! These emails are intended to keep you up to date with important news and events on electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The Electric VTOL News™ is published twice monthly by the Vertical Flight Society. Not a member? Join today to enjoy the many benefits of being part of the world's largest international vertical flight technology community.
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The Sept/Oct issue of Vertiflite is now online!
VFS members can log in and read the current and back-issues of Vertiflite; non-members can read these eVTOL-related articles for free. If you aren't a VFS member, join today to get the world's leading magazine on VTOL technology!
Check out the latest issue of Vertiflite!
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- NASA Holds UAM Grand Challenge Virtual Meeting, FedBizOpps, Aug 14 (slides coming soon)
- Can Uber Elevate Commit to $700/hr eVTOL Flight by 2023?, CleanTechnica, Aug 14
- Startups Bet Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are Ready For Takeoff In Aviation, Forbes.com, Aug 14
- Embraer Unveils Fixed-Wing Electric Demonstrator, Aug 16
- Revisiting Kitty Hawk’s Flyer: The Aircraft Now With Over 25,000 Flights, TransportUP, Aug 17
- Malaysia’s first flying car 85 per cent complete, FrontDesk, Aug 20
- Q-and-A with HopFlyt’s Rory Feely, EVTOL.com, Aug 21
- Will the Global Urban Air Mobility Market Justify the Investment?, Skyport, Aug 22
- Helicopter operators attract interest from eVTOL investors, EVTOL.com, Aug 21
- Russian Begaero air taxi shown at MAKS-2019 air show, (auto translated) TASS, Aug 23
- Uber selects Dallas, Elevate pilot city, for major expansion, EVTOL.com, Aug 25
- Urban Air Mobility Investments to Pass $318B by 2040, TransportUP, Aug 26
- Elroy Air’s massive cargo drone completes its first test flight, The Verge, Aug 28
- Boeing petitions FAA to fly Cargo Air Vehicle autonomously, Aug 28
- Bell and Yamato’s Autonomous Aerial Logistics Solution ‘APT’ Takes Flight, Skyport, Aug 30
- Volocopter flies at Helsinki airport in air traffic management demo, EVTOL.com, Aug 30
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Mark Your Calendars!
Sept 10-12, 2019 @ Washington, DC
VFS Defining Challenges Workshop
Covering air vehicle design for certification, infrastructure and airspace management, this will be the first in a new series of workshops on the defining challenges of electric VTOL developments. Early bird deadline Aug. 30.
Sept 23-24, 2019 @ San Francisco
Revolution.Aero
Oct 7-8, 2019 @ Berkeley, CA
Sustainable Aviation Symposium 2019 in conjunction with UC Berkeley
Oct 29-30, 2019 @ Hampton, VA
VFS Propulsion Technical Meeting
The conference will highlight research and development efforts related to manned and unmanned rotorcraft, as well as electric and hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft.
Is an important eVTOL event missing? Let us know!
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Workshop on eVTOL Defining Challenges for Urban Air Mobility:
Infrastructure, Airspace Management and System Safety
The Vertical Flight Society is hosting a workshop on the "defining challenges" of electric VTOL aircraft, Sept. 10-12, at the US Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C. This three-day workshop is focused on the biggest barriers that need to be solved to realize the potential of eVTOL for urban air mobility (UAM), including what key organizations are working on and looking for any gaps or overlaps in standards developments.
Registration is now open! All registration rates will increase by $50 on August 31. Note: since this is a working meeting, members of the press cannot attend.
There are a limited number of sponsorships available. Go to www.vtol.org/DC for more information.
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AeroMobil Announces Technical Services Unit
AeroMobil — the Bratislava, Slovakia-based company with an actual flying car — has expanded its business to offer specialist technical consulting services for VTOL and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) aircraft.
Aeromobil’s Technical Consulting Services division will provide services in three areas: technical advisory, engineering consulting and concept development on offer for existing organisations and new entrants aiming to solve engineering challenges and create safe, certifiable VTOL aircraft. The company plans to make a formal announcement on during the inaugural Global Air Mobility Summit 2019 in Farnborough, UK, on Tuesday, Sept. 3.
eVTOL.news has the exclusive story. Read more!
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In Case You Missed It
ICYMI: key stories from last issue of the eVTOL eNewsletter:
- Two dozen of the world’s leading electric aircraft developers and technology experts spoke at the CAFE Foundation 13th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium (EAS) at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, on July 20-21. The two-day event is now available for free viewing in 26 videos on the VFS YouTube Channel. In addition, we've summarized the key points for each speaker. Some 10 hours of videos and 10,000 words of content are available — check it out!
- NEXA Advisors completed a comprehensive year-long study, Urban Air Mobility—Economics and Global Markets. The groundbreaking NEXA report, undertaken in a partnership with VFS, contains forecasts for 74 metropolitan areas over the period of 2020 – 2040. The online databases include thousands of geocoded data features and characteristics of each city, as well as the study’s findings on their potential market for urban air mobility (UAM). Subscription rates are posted and the public can explore the deep city-level analysis available, using New York City as an example, at www.nexa-uam.com.
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VFS has partners with the eVTOL Community Forum on Slack. If you are on Slack.com and/or interested in having robust discussions on electric VTOL and Urban Air Mobility, go to www.twitter.com/EvtolC to request account access.
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Plan Now to Attend the VFS Transformative Vertical Flight Meeting
The Transformative Vertical Flight 2020 will take place in San Jose, California from Jan. 21-23, 2020. A record number of abstracts were received for what promises to be an action-packed 3-day event! It includes the following meetings:
- Aeromechanics For Advanced Vertical Flight Technical Meeting: A forum for discussions of emerging aeromechanics challenges and solution methods for future VTOL aircraft. Abstract topics are invited in all areas related to rotorcraft aeromechanics.
- International Powered Lift Conference (IPLC): The premier event for engineers, technologists and managers to discuss the developments in jet, prop and rotor-powered vertical and/or short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft research, concepts and programs. IPLC 2020 will focus on three primary areas: advanced rotorcraft, jet-lift concepts and technologies and progress in propulsion applications such as electric VTOL.
- 7th Annual Electric VTOL Symposium: Invited speakers discussing the latest plans and progress in electric and hybrid-electric VTOL!
For more information: www.vtol.org/transformative
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GoFly Prize Phase III Deadline
The GoFly Prize has issued its challenge to innovators around the world to create a personal flyer. New teams are being accepted until Oct 1. Join GoFly to win nearly $2M and change the world.
The Challenge: Design and build a safe, quiet, ultra-compact, near-VTOL personal flying device capable of flying 20 miles while carrying a single person.
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eVTOL.News™ Website
Have you checked out our eVTOL.news™ website lately? Learn about the different eVTOL aircraft now under development and check out our latest news stories. Past editions of The Electric VTOL News™ are also available.
We now have 200+ eVTOL designs and 200+ articles listed in the World eVTOL Aircraft Directory, and the number continues to grow! Check out our:
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Vertically yours,
Mike.
Mike Hirschberg, Executive Director
The Vertical Flight Society
www.vtol.org
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