The Electric VTOL News™, Vol 7, No 5, Mar 1, 2022
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H2-Aero Symposium & Workshop is March 29-31
The 1st H2-Aero Symposium & Workshop will be held on March 29-31 in Long Beach, California. Following up on the successful programs on hydrogen for aviation produced by the VFS Hydrogen eVTOL Council in 2020-2021, VFS is bringing leading experts to discuss the promise, progress and barriers of implementing hydrogen fuel cells for eVTOL and other types of propeller aircraft. This is part of a new effort called H2-Aero to help accelerate development and scale on both the hydrogen infrastructure as well as the fuel cell aircraft.
The event will feature two days (March 29–30) of informative presentations and insightful discussions (the Symposium), as well as the Workshop for H2-Aero. Topics to be covered include aviation-relevant hydrogen storage, fuel cells in aerospace, and synergies with ground infrastructure, among many others. As a plus, there will be a tour of Toyota's hydrogen and fuel cell heavy duty vehicle facilities at the Port of Long Beach, California, on Thursday, March 31.
Learn more or register today!
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March/April Vertiflite Now Online!
Featured eVTOL articles in this issue:
VFS members can download the current and all past issues of Vertiflite!
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Archer
EHang
EVE
Joby
Lilium
Vertical
Volocopter
Wisk
Other eVTOL Aircraft News
- Urban Aeronautics study analyzes eVTOL operations in EMS response, eVTOL.com, Feb. 25
- Tech Mahindra Joins Engineering Team To Bring Aska Flying SUV to Market, FutureFlight, Feb. 23
- AutoFlight Promises an Air Mobility Cost Revolution with Its Prosperity I eVTOL Aircraft, FutureFlight, Feb. 22
- Ascendance’s Atea eVTOL aircraft joins Singapore private air mobility platform, eVTOL.com, Feb. 22
- The technology behind ZEVA’s plan to put an eVTOL in every garage, eVTOL.com, Feb. 21
- Air Taxi Achieves Proof of Concept Transition, TechRound, Feb. 21
- MightyFly advances to next stage of flight tests, eVTOL.com, Feb. 17
- Odys Aircraft raises USD12.4 million in seed funding round, UAM News, Feb. 17
- Co-founder James Dorris explains Odys Aviation's unique VTOL design, New Atlas, Feb. 15
- Blade Air Mobility reports positive earnings in Q4 2021, eVTOL.com, Feb. 11
General eVTOL/AAM News
- Vertiport design: Register for FAA “special industry virtual day”, UAM News, Mar. 1
- With Billions In Funding, Electric Flight Space Still Waits To Soar, crunchbase news, Feb. 28
- Weather-cancelled heli ride raises questions about eVTOL expectations, Runway Girl Network, Feb. 27
- Aviation Week Podcast: Will the UAM market grow to USD50 billion a year?, UAM News, Feb. 24
- Putting the customer at the center of advanced air mobility, McKinsey, Feb. 22
- EVTOL Companies Are Worth Billions—Who Are the Key Players?, IEEE Spectrum, Feb. 22
- LCI's Jaspal Jandu on recent acquisitions and the future role of eVTOLs, Asian Skycast, Feb. 21
- Future Urban Mobility: eVTOL, an Economic Reality?, Energy Industry Review, Feb. 21
- Electric Flying Cars Are Just Dirty Old Helicopters, Rebranded, Washington Post, Feb. 21
- Rolls-Royce Teams with Embraer and Wideroe on New Green Regional Airliner Plan, FutureFlight, Feb. 18
- Removing the Effects of Noise Pollution with Electric Propulsion Systems, AZO CleanTech, Feb. 17
- Flying cars take off: How air taxis are about to revolutionise how we travel, BBC Science Focus, Feb. 16
Infrastructure & Operations
- UK's Future Flight Challenge Pushes for Green and Inclusive Air Transport, FutureFlight, Feb. 24
- ITPS Canada to launch new eVTOL flight test simulator, eVTOL.com, Feb. 24
- Skyports and Eve Start Work on eVTOL Concept of Operations for Japan, FutureFlight, Feb. 18
- Producing Japanese Vertiports, Akihabara News, Feb. 18
- Seletar Could Be Advanced Air Mobility Hub For Singapore, AIN Online, Feb. 15
- Urban-Air Port starts construction of its Air One infrastructure hub ahead of April launch event in Coventry, eVTOL Insights, Feb. 15
- USAF targets first crewed operations on board an eVTOL aircraft this year, eVTOL.com, Feb. 14
- Hop to it: Vertiports as an asset class, Legal Flight Deck, Feb. 14
Energy & Power
eCTOL / eSTOL
- Natilus Claims Blended Wing Autonomous Freighters Will Transform Air Freight Business, FutureFlight, Feb. 24
- Electra.aero works with Yugo to open up new destinations in Asia for private air travel using its eSTOL aircraft, eVTOL Insights, Feb. 21
- First-of-its-kind hybrid-electric aircraft takes to the skies, Smart Energy International, Feb. 20
- Electron’s 2024 Round the World Plans, Sustainable Skies, Feb 15.
- Tecnam P2010 H3PS Hybrid Aircraft Takes First Flight, Flying Magazine, Feb. 15
- Desaer ATL-100H hybrid aircraft mixes electric motors with turboprops, New Atlas, Feb. 10
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March 7-10: AAM at HAI
VFS & eVTOL events at Heli-Expo
Dallas, Texas, USA
March 22-24: NASA AAM Working Group
AAM Ecosystem Working Groups (AEWG) Workshop
Virtual
March 29: FAA Industry Day
Vertiport Design Engineering Brief Industry Day
Virtual
March 29-31: VFS Meeting
Hydrogen Aero Workshop
Long Beach, California, USA
Register today!
April 7-8: OSU Symposium
Ohio Air Mobility Symposium
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA
April 19-20: eVTOL Insights
London Conference 2022
London, UK
April 26: VFS at AUVSI
VFS panel at XPONENTIAL 2022
Orlando, Florida, USA
May 9: VFS Short Course
Electric VTOL Technology
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Register today!
May 9: VFS Short Course
Model Based System Engineering
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Register today!
May 10-12: VFS 78th Annual Forum & Technology Display
The Future of Vertical Flight
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Register today!
July 23-24: CAFE-VFS Meeting
16th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium
Oshkosh, WI, USA & hybrid
Save the date!
Sept. 20-22: VFS Meeting
6th eVTOL Infrastructure Workshop
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Save the date!
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VFS founded its H2eVTOL Council in May 2020 and has been holding monthly webinars since January 2021. The new H2-Aero Team now includes all eVTOL, eCTOL and eSTOL H2-Aero applications.
Here's a roundup of recent H2 articles.
- Norway to build new facility that uses electrolysers to create e-fuels for aircraft, H2-View, Feb. 28
- Pratt & Whitney HySIITE Hydrogen and Steam Engine, Sustainable Skies, Feb. 28
- Universal Hydrogen, Elix Aviation continue to peruse decarbonised flight ambitions, H2-View, Feb. 24
- Airbus and CFM: Flying on Hydrogen Power by 2035, Sustainable Skies, Feb. 24
- Hydrogen-powered Airbus A380 to take flight this decade, H2-View, Feb. 23
- The AOS-H2 Hydrogen-powered Motor Glider, Sustainable Skies, Feb. 21
- H2Fly Is Ready for the Next Leg of Its Flight Path to Hydrogen-powered Commercial Aviation, FutureFlight, Feb. 18
- easyJet: Hydrogen flights can’t come soon enough, H2-View, Feb. 17
- HyPoint cuts ribbon to new state-of-the-art facility in the UK and plans to advance zero-emissions hydrogen aviation, eVTOL Insights, Feb. 14
- The H2eVTOL Council's Pioneering Year, eVTOL.news, Jan. 4
VFS is holding its first H2-Aero Symposium & Workshop on March 29-31 in Long Beach, California. Go to www.vtol.org/H2workshop to learn more and register!
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University Student Activities
VFS has a lot of student activities underway!
The VFS Student Design Competition challenges students to design an electric VTOL aircraft that accommodates passengers with a broad spectrum of mobility difficulties or other disabilities for urban air mobility (UAM) missions. The competition, entitled, “eVTOL Air Taxi for Passengers with Reduced Mobility (PRM),” is sponsored this year by Bell, and is open to students at universities worldwide. We had some 20 university teams from around the world apply by the deadline! Stay tuned for more news.
The 8 university teams participating in the VFS Design-Build-Vertical Flight (DBVF) Student Competition passed their next milestone. Congratulations to the following teams who received awards for having the best Preliminary Design Reports:
- 1st Place – Pennsylvania State
- 2nd Place – Michigan
- 3rd Place – Ohio State
VFS announced its DiversiFlite program last year to promote diversity, inclusion and equity in the vertical flight workforce. In January, we launched our DiversiFlite Podcast and our DiversiFlite Scholars program, which seeks to provide opportunities for underrepresented university students who have an interest in vertical flight. The program selects engineering students at any US-recognized Minority Serving Institution (MSI) for an all-expenses-paid trip to the Society's 78th Annual Forum & Technology Display in May in Ft. Worth, Texas.
The deadline to apply as a VFS DiversiFlite Scholar is March 15.
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Upcoming VFS eVTOL Short Courses
Need an introduction to eVTOL or need to become an expert? Attend one of our upcoming eVTOL short courses:
- May 9: Short Course on Electric VTOL Technology: Organized by the VFS eVTOL Technical Committee for the VFS 78th Annual Forum in Ft. Worth, Texas, this multi-presenter course provides in-depth coverage of industry-standard battery systems development (BAE Systems), advanced high-power hybrid-electric hardware (LaunchPoint), PEM fuel cells and hydrogen propulsion and as always, the fundamentals of vertical lift and rotor aeromechanics from design to state-of-the-art in acoustics (University of Maryland). See here for more information.
Recent eVTOL short courses video recordings:
- Short Course on Electric VTOL Design: Video-on-demand (10.2 hours of instruction) includes 1,000 presentation slides in PDF format — held Feb. 2022 New!
- Short Course on Electric VTOL Technology: Video-on-demand (10.5 hours of instruction) includes hundreds of presentation slides in PDF format — held June 2021
- Short Course on Electric VTOL Design (Introduction): Video-on-demand for this 9-hour eVTOL short course — with more than 500 presentation slides provided in PDF format — Sept. 2020
- Short Course on Electric VTOL Design (Intermediate): Video-on-demand for this 9-hour eVTOL short course — with more than 500 presentation slides provided in PDF format — Feb. 2021
Check out all of our short courses available for purchase. The cost for each course is US$325.
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eVTOL Video Library
Need educational information and market intelligence on eVTOL? VFS has an extensive library of hundreds of rotorcraft and eVTOL educational videos. Take a look at some of these recent videos, or find hundreds of videos (most are free for members) in the VFS Video Library.
- VFS Chapter Webinar: Insect Scale Flapping Wing Aerial Robots Powered by Soft Artificial Muscles. Hosted by the VFS East New England Chapter, Dec. 1.
- eVTOL Chapter Webinar: Hydrogen Powered Vertical Aviation, The $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Act & Other Recent Legislation, Nov. 29.
- eVTOL Chapter Webinar: GoFly and the Development of Aria, a Compact, Ultra-Quiet Personal Electric Helicopter. Hosted by the VFS Southwest Chapter, Nov. 9.
- eVTOL Chapter Webinar: Next Generation Pilots: Training and Certification, with speakers from Bell, International Test Pilots School, and CAE. Hosted by the VFS Montreal-Ottawa Chapter, Oct 20
- VFS Workshop: 5th Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure, 16 hours of recorded webinars for sale as video-on-demand. Check out the agenda and see what is available! Sept. 20-21
- VFS Workshop: Successfully Transitioning to Autonomous Vertical Flight, (video on demand, $100), Sep. 15
- eVTOL Writers Group: Overair Unveils Much Anticipated Butterfly eVTOL Design, Ben Tigner, Overair, Aug. 11
- eVTOL Writers Group: An Innovative & Data-Driven Approach to Building the Aviation Workforce of Tomorrow in Advanced Air Mobility, Chris Courtney and Tim Schoenauer, CAE, July 7
- eVTOL Webinar: eVTOL Certification, David Webber, FAA, presented by VFS/SFTE/SETP/AIAA Flight Test Council, June 29
- eVTOL Chapter Webinar: BETA Technologies, Herman Wiegman, BETA, VFS East New England Chapter, June 28
- eVTOL Webinar: NASA Aeronautics Contributions to the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, VFS Arizona / Philadelphia / Redstone Chapters, Susan Gorton, NASA, June 17
- eVTOL Writers Group: Electric Power Systems: EPiC battery family, Nathan Millecam, Randy Dunn and Michael Armstrong, EP Systems, June 8
- eVTOL Webinars: Raising $tartup Capital: eVTOL Financing 101 webinar series
- Forum 77: Video recordings of nearly 300 presentations (approx. 150 hours) from Forum 77 can be purchased and watched. Register to gain all the same access as the live event, except the networking/chat functions and the Exhibitor Technical Briefings.
- Forum 77: Welcome video, May 9
- Forum 77: Grand Awards Ceremony, May 5
- Forum 77: 41st Annual Nikolsky Lecture: “Rotorcraft Design: The Crucial Influence of Safety from Concept to Fleet Support,” May 5
- VFS Chapter Webinar: Robotic Exploration of Titan with Dragonfly, a Multi-rotor Relocatable Lander, Apr. 28
- VFS Chapter Webinar: NASA's new Advanced Air Mobility Mission, Apr. 23
- VFS Chapter Webinar: Recent Vertical Lift Research at the National Research Council of Canada, Apr. 23
- eVTOL Webinar: Raising $tartup Capital: eVTOL Financing 101, Dana Jensen, Gemini, Rafferty Jackson, Jack Industries and Kirsten Bartok Touw, New Vista, April 8
- VFS Chapter Webinar: Unmanned Aerial Systems / Urban Air Mobility, Hector Garcia, Honeywell, Apr. 1
- eVTOL Writers Group: Real-Time Innovations: Using Industry Standards to Drive the Production of Next Generation Autonomous Platforms, March. 24
- eVTOL Flight Test Council: System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) for Flight Testers, Nancy Leveson, MIT, March 9
- 4th Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure, March 2-4, with 16 hours of recorded webinars for sale as video-on-demand. Or check out the agenda and see what is available!
- eVTOL Writers Group: Embention, Javier Espuch, Feb. 17
- eVTOL Writers Group: Volocopter, Florian Reuter & Oliver Reinhardt, Volocopter, Feb. 10
- eVTOL Flight Test Council: Austin Meyer - How X-Plane can be used for eVTOL Flight, presented by the eVTOL Flight Test Council, Austin Meyer, X-Plane, Jan. 19
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Mike Hirschberg, Executive Director
The Vertical Flight Society
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