The Electric VTOL News™, Vol 7, No 8, Apr 12, 2022
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 (eVTOL) aircraft. The Electric VTOL News™ is a free newsletter published since 2016 by the Vertical Flight Society — distributed every other Tuesday!
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Forum 78 Hotel Deadline is April 14
The Vertical Flight Society is excited to return to an in-person Forum after two long years! The 78th Annual Forum & Technology Display is the world's leading international technical event on vertical flight technology. The conference will span three days and include 200+ technical papers on every discipline from Acoustics to Unmanned Systems, as well as invited presentations and discussions by leaders in the military, government agencies and industry.
With dozens of presentations on eVTOL and related technologies, Forum 78 is an exceptional opporunity to learn, network and recruit. Forum 78 features two bespoke technical sessions on eVTOL technology and four sessions of invited speakers, plus our signature Electric VTOL Technology Short Course.
Be sure also to book your hotel before the discounted rate hotel cutoff on April 14.
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Vertical Flight Society News
- Advanced Air Mobility Makes Waves at CES 2022, eVTOL.news, April 9
- Building Global Partnerships, eVTOL.news, April 9
- VFS continues record growth, exceeding 170 corporate members, Vertical Magazine, April 7
VFS announces 2022 Lichten Award winners, Vertical Magazine, April 6
- VFS eVTOL News Interview: Chuck Taylor, Kitty Hawk, YouTube, March 22
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Vertical Aerospace
- Malaysia's Capital A to launch flying taxis in Southeast Asia, NikkeiAsia, April 12
- Vertical Aerospace Has Sold 1,350 eVTOL Flying Taxis To Date, Simple Flying, April 4
- Vertical’s VX4 eVTOL aircraft could fly in Turkey by 2024, eVTOL.com, April 1
- Air Greenland to introduce electric flying taxis from Vertical Aerospace, GlobeTrender, March 31
- Avolon places final eVTOL aircraft from 500-unit Vertical Aerospace VX4 order, FlightGlobal, March 29
Other eVTOL Aircraft News
- Odys Aviation pitches unique VTOL as replacement for regional airliners, FlightGlobal, April 11
- Lift Aircraft Awarded USAF Contract For More eVTOL Test Flights, Aviation Week, April 7
- Swiss-based Dufour Aerospace to establish Canadian site in Montreal, eVTOL.com, April 7
- Canadian Business Leaders Calin Rovinescu and Mitch Garber Back Jaunt Air Mobility, businesswire, April 5
- SkyPak Flying Backpack Takes Off, an 80 Lb eVTOL With 12 Motors and 6 Pairs of Propellers, autoevolution, April 5
- NASA’s Pioneering Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Awarded Collier Trophy, NASA, April 5
- Jaunt Air Mobility Lands New Investors to Help Air Taxis Take Flight, Dallas Innovates, April 5
- Dufour Aerospace and Blueberry Aviation announce commercial partnership, Vertical Magazine, April 4
- Elroy Air teams up with FedEx to test cargo delivery service using Chaparral aircraft, eVTOL.com, March 31
- Company looks to bring electric airplanes to Vermont, myChamplainValley, March 29
General eVTOL/AAM News
- Amazon drone crashes hit Jeff Bezos’ delivery dreams, Air Cargo World, April 11
- Flying Cars Will Displace Helicopters. Just Hold Off on the Stocks for Now, Barrons, April 11
- Wisk, Xwing, Elroy Air Weigh In on Future Autonomy in Advanced Air Mobility, Aviation Today, April 8
- Electric Planes Taking Off, SemiConductor Engineering, April 7
- Israeli electric planes soon to land in Australia, Israel21, April 5
- Miami signs deal to develop Advanced Air Mobility, Miami Today, April 5
- CAAM and CARTAMS “to develop five year UAM roadmap for Canada”, UAM News, April 5
- eVTOL Recovery Parachute Systems Get Boost With Pioneer Acquisition, Aviation Week, April 4
- The New Spark in Aviation, AAHS Flightline, 1st Quarter 2022 (PDF)
Infrastructure & Operations
- DIFCO Begins Construction on Aero-Medical eVTOL Vertiport Facility, AviationPros, April 11
- Airport Gurus and Ferrovial team up to expand vertiport expansion, UAM News, April 11
- Oshkosh’s Wittman Airport to Build ‘first eVTOL Vertiport in the Americas’, Flying Magazine, April 8
- Skyportz’ CEO on why AAM support is so strong in Australia, eVTOL.com, April 7
- Second CORUS-XUAM workshop identifies challenges in defining detailed UTM and vertiport roles in UAM, UAM News, April 6
- Air Mobility center next step for Springfield airport, Springfield News-Sun, April 5
- How airports and FBOs are starting to upgrade their electrical infrastructure, Business Airport, April 5
- Skyportz and Sea World Helicopters team up to advance Gold Coast electric air taxi industry, MoodieDavitt Report, April 3
- Leeds Bradford Airport partners Urban-Air Port to develop aerial vehicle hub, The MoodieDavitt Report, March 30
Power & Energy
- A Hybrid Structural Battery, Sustainable Skies, April 10
- GE’s hybrid-electric propulsion systems to power U.S. Army’s future flights, InceptiveMnd, April 4
- Army Research Laboratory Awards GE $5.1 Million Contract to Advance Hybrid Electric Engine Technology, Aviation Pros, April 4
- How hybrid technology could be used in future helicopters, Vertical Magazine, April 4
- Solid State Batteries with a Liquid Chaser, Sustainable Skies, April 1
eCTOL / eSTOL
- An Electric 19-Seater With a 100% Bio-Based Cabin Is Gearing up for Regional Operation, autoevolution, April 11
- Icelandair Optimistic About Electric Flying, Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft, Aviation Week, April 11
- New electric-powered motor glider to take off soon, Innovation Origins, April 11
- Norwegian Startup Plans to Build Electric Seaplane for Coastal Routes, Maritime Executive, April 10
- Safran Starts Work on Propulsion for Aura Electric Aircraft, AIN Online, April 7
- US Navy Has A $14 Million Stealthy Solar Energy Electric Aircraft Up Its Sleeve, Clean Technica, April 7,
- NREL Gets Electric Off the Ground With R&D, Analysis on Battery-Powered Aircraft and Seacraft, NREL, April 4
- NRC supports the fight against climate change with hybrid-electric Cessna, Skies Magazine, April 4
- UK's Aerospace Technology Institute to Offer Up to £1 Billion In New Green Aviation Funding, FutureFlight, March 29
- Textron Acquires Pipistrel: A Good Thing?, Sustainable Skies, March 29
- Pipistrel and Textron: An Odd Marriage Indeed, AVweb, March 18
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April 12,14,19,21: ACMA Tech
AAM Composite Technology Days
Virtual
April 19: NASA AAM Working Group
V2V for Collision Avoidance
Virtual
Recordings of past events.
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 + virtual
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 newly added H2-Aero Team now includes all eVTOL, eCTOL and eSTOL H2-Aero applications. Sign up to join one or both of these two H2 working groups to help decarbonize aviation!
Here's a roundup of recent H2 articles:
- Piasecki outlines its path to the world’s first manned hydrogen helicopter flight, Global Circulate, April 8
- Piasecki Prepares To Step Up Testing Regime for Hydrogen-Powered Helicopter, FutureFlight, April 5
- US Defense Innovation Unit awards Skydweller $14m to continue development of hydrogen-powered aircraft, H2-View, April 5
- Hyundai explores hydrogen fuel cell technology for eSTOL aircraft, eVTOL.com, April 4
- ZeroAvia and ZEV Station sign MoU to Develop Hydrogen Refueling Ecosystem at California Airports, PR Newswire, April 4
- Aussie hypersonic venture builds reusable system with 3D printed scramjet, pitches to Pentagon, Breaking Defense, March 31
- HyPoint Extends Hydrogen Flight Range with New Ultralight Fuel Tanks, FutureFlight, March 29
- New HyPoint collaboration to triple liquid hydrogen flight range, H2-View, March 29
- The H2eVTOL Council's Pioneering Year, eVTOL.news, Jan. 4
VFS held its first H2-Aero Symposium & Workshop on March 29-31 in Long Beach, California. Go to www.vtol.org/H2workshop to learn more.
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H2-Aero Symposium & Workshop Recordings Are Now Available!
The 1st H2-Aero Symposium & Workshop, held on March 29-31 in Long Beach, California, featured two days of informative presentations and insightful discussions on the future of hydrogen fuel cells in aviation, as well as an exclusive tour of Shell's hydrogen and fuel cell heavy duty vehicle facilities.
VFS members and event attendees can now access video recordings of the more than 30 presentations at the symposium.
Check out the proceedings of this groundbreaking event here!
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VFS Recordings of Heli-Expo 2022
The Vertical Flight Society supported numerous events at HAI's Heli-Expo last week in Dallas, Texas. VFS events:
> The Future of Vertical Flight, VFS media briefing, March 7
> The ((Quiet)) Electric VTOL Revolution, VFS panel, March 9
- Jim Sherman, Director of Strategic Development, Vertical Flight Society (moderator)
- Juliet Page, Principal Engineer, Blue Ridge Research and Consulting
- Ben Goldman, Manager of Acoustics, Archer Aviation
- Mark Moore, Chief Executive Officer, Whisper Aero
- Rex Alexander, President, Five-Alpha
Exclusive VFS interviews and more:
> Marenco Swiss Helicopter CEO Martin Stucki
> Stella-Marissa Hughes, AAM Training, CAE
> Simon Briceno, Jaunt Air Mobility
> Jonathan Hartman, Sikorsky Innovations
The full playlist of VFS events and interviews on March 7-10 is available on YouTube.
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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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Save the Date! 16th Annual EAS
The 16th annual Electric Aircraft Symposium returns to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on Saturday and Sunday, July 23-24, the weekend before AirVenture. Join some of the world’s leading innovators and early adopters at the world’s longest running electric aircraft conference at UW Alumni Center for an in-person and virtual event covering eVTOL, eSTOL and eCTOL aircraft and battery-electric, hybrid-electric and H2 energy sources.
Plan to arrive in Oshkosh early to attend this exclusive industry event, or attend virtually from anywhere in the world.
The virtual events in 2020 and 2021 featured a record number of speakers and attendees and we expect strong participation at this year’s hybrid event! Follow this link to learn more.
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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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