✅ Midnight has achieved transition flight! Next steps... 💨 Continuing to expand Midnight's speed and endurance flight envelope 🗺️ Execute commercial flight plans to demonstrate the aircraft’s operational readiness Watch the full, uncut version of the transition flight here: https://lnkd.in/gENUj7RW
or just buy a helicopter for 1/5th of the price and 6x the range
there are a lot of emerging EVTOL’s challenging for this space, but in my opinion; they are competing against the standards that Midnight will set. Congratulations!
Like to see the calcs showing a Mean-Time-Between-Catastrophic-Failure MTBF of 1X10 9 hours with that amount of mechanical hardware, motors and actuators. Like the aircraft and wish it success.
Looking forward to seeing these eVTOLs in action with each milestone being reached!
So exited watching this coming to life. Amazing aircraft I have been an investor for 2 years now. I really believe this will be the tesla of the sky. Keep up the good work Adam and team. Congrats on all your milestones.
Would have be kind to display the transition…
Cementing Archers position at the forefront of EVTOL race!
CEO at ARC Aerosystems
2wTransition flight is one of the first stages of an eVTOL development. You then have to increase the envelope for another year of testing with no accident. Another year for piloted flight tests. Then one more year to demonstrate this with the actual compliant aircraft. Three years of developing and after that two more years of production certificate for the aircraft you have certified if you can certify it and not run out of Steam. So it seems Archer needs at least 5 years of runway from now to survive the market launch in 2030.