They're almost here: the Flying Car/Taxi META Thread

The FAA has set out the requirements for the evtol pilots and aircraft certification. 1,000 hours of flight time are needed for potential pilots. At $200/hour, that means a looooot of money ($200k ish) for any civvie who is earning their wings for flying commercial evtols:

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Eve is announcing their suppliers as their aircraft design matures:

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Cyclotech has demonstrated how noisy their tech is:

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Joby thinks there is a large market for their evtol:

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are evtol cabins the next big market for suppliers?

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Lilium's Daniel Wiegand gets interviewed:

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And whisper aerospace claims to have a breakthrough:

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Japan's skydrive has a bigger bird and aims for a 2026 certification:

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The summer olympics in Los Angeles may have a flyby showcase of evtols:

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Supernal has IDed its key suppliers:

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Eve has IDed more suppliers:

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Lilium has signed agreements in China:

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Archer's Midnight is going to be "safe:"

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Flying cars/taxis or advanced air mobility will be sorted out...with time and money:

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Suzuki and SkyDrive will start jointly producing their flying car in 2024:

www.japantimes.co.jp...

SkyDrive's Evtol taxi has a design revision:

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Volocopter is aiming for a 2024 air cert from Europe:

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Horizon is taking a hybrid engine approach to evtols:

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Maglev Aero has unveiled its new propulsion system:

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GKN will produce the thermoplastic for Joby's evtol:

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Eve gets 120 (probable) orders for their evtols:

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Here we go!

Paris will start allowing EVTOLs next year:

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Joby has been cleared by the FAA for its first test flights of its production evtol:

www.engadget.com...
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SK telecom invested $100M in Joby:

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Alef got permission to fly its weird flying car as a prototype:

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Skydrive has picked Thales for their controls:

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The Aska A5 got FAA permission for flight tests.



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I'd think the Caltech robot would be a better basis tho:



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Vertical does their first untethered flight but has delays:

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Japan's SkyDrive has their first American preorder:

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Archer's Midnight will fly in days:

www.flightglobal.com...

The FAA expects to support air taxis 'at scale' by 2028:

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EHang is rolling out their service in Shenzen:

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Archer adds a former Uber Elevate exec:

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Ampaire bought Talyn Air:

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Embraer and Eve to produce air taxis at site close to Sao Jose dos Campos

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USAF just bought 6 Midnight Evtols from Archer for $142M:

www.flightglobal.com...
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Eve has a new CEO:

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Wisk flew at a public event:
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Supernal opened its engineering HQ in Los Angeles:
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The Ask 5 is now street legal and FAA legal:

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Joby has successfully flown its production version of its aircraft, but no video online afaict:

www.flightglobal.com...

Joby also lost $268M in the last quarter and has $1.2B on hand. At their current burn rate, they have 5 quarters worth of cash and would probably conduct layoffs in 3 quarters unless they raise more money.

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Vertical Aerospace was testing the VX4 in a rotor failure situation, and bent it.

a reply to: Zaphod58

What did they expect with a tail name like that? yeesh.

Archer wants to take the lead (*cough* EHang *cough*) in the evtol race but is burning cash fast:

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Archer and Wisk have settled their lawsuit and Boeing has now also invested in Archer (they already had in Wisk):

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The USMC is interested in Archer's evtol:

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As noted by Zaph, Vertical's evtol crashed:

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Fluff first:



Air taxi developer XTI Aircraft plans to create public company with Inpixon
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Air taxi developers see significant hurdles in FAA’s proposed rules
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Air taxi developer Horizon embarks on path to become publicly traded
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more on the vertical evtol crash:
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Eve reports a $31.4M loss:

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Mag Lev talks about their tech:

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Zapata's evtol is really a hybrid:

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eHang has completed its flight testing and is awaiting certification in China:

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Some US based aviation groups are concerned about evtols:

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The VX4 was doing engine out testing, and one of the other engines suffered a prop separation.

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Europeans have settled on a regulatory framework for evtols:

www.flightglobal.com...

More on the Vertical crash. We need more details! They seem very a-prop-priate!

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Some journalists "learned" to fly the Lilium evtol:

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Jump Aero reveals design of ambulance-beating JA1 Pulse eVTOL

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Bristow could take up to 80 VoloCity aircraft under latest eVTOL agreement

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