Archer的动态

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Well cleared for takeoff, Archer Aviation bringing electric air taxis to Asia and deal with Japan Airlines could replace 90 minute drives between cities and airports with 10 to 15 minute flights. The firm is now working with regulators to get the necessary permissions and with orders worth more than $6 billion. Archers propelling its midnight aircraft towards the commercial launch at the end of next year. In the US, the companies teamed up with United and Southwest Airlines. Well, Adam Goldstein is the founder and CEO and joins us now. Great to have you with us. Thanks for having me on the show. Pleasure. So this is exciting. Archer, of course, a pioneering player in this emerging product category and you are making significant progress towards commercialization. Just talk to us about this contract in Japan. Yeah. So this was a really big deal for Archer and really for the industry as we're getting very mature in terms of developing these aircrafts and finding homes where we can actually develop the first routes to bring them to market and really start to take passengers and ultimately go change people's lives. So what we do is we try to look at cities that have congestion, that have no that are crowded where we can bring this new product and really offer people a great experience. And so we took a look at Japan and then from there we went and partnered with. One of the the great companies in Japan. So we start with Japan Airlines and then also partnered with Sumitomo in order to form this new JV in order to bring these aircraft to market there. Amazing. So Archers electric aircraft is called Midnight. Adam, can you just talk us through the design of this aircraft? I mean how much time people will save it and who the customer will be? Sure. So these are electric vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts. And so they're meant to take off and land like helicopters, but then transition and fly forward on the wing like an airplane. And so these vehicles are used to replace trips on the ground where when you drive, it might take 6090 or 120 minutes with flights that can take 5 to 10 minutes. So think airport to city center. That's a trip that I think we're all very familiar with. Those are trips that can be very tiresome and really just soul sucking as you sit there in traffic. Those are routes that we can fly in very short periods of time. And so we're now working with the regulators as we close the final stages here in order to bring these aircraft to markets. And that's what's so exciting about the time period we're in right now because we've been working on this for so long. All the regulations in place, we're going through the final tests and now we're just at that point where we can start building the production planes and then ultimately bring them to the customers. It's about getting the certification and working your way through the regulation. I know you've been working with the the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau. I mean, how long has that process going on and, and at what stage are you at right now? Yeah. So we've been working on this certification process for many, many years, and it started in the US with the FAA. So the FAA has really laid out all the rules in order how this industry is going to develop. And most recently, they just put a lot of the operational rules in place through what was called the S Bar. And that was a really big deal because it was the final piece of regulation that had to get put in place in order to operationalize the industry. Now regulators all around the world are using that as a framework in order to allow the companies to certify these aircraft and ultimately bring them to their local markets. And that's exactly what we're doing. Japan and so we have spent tons of times, hundreds and hundreds of of test flights really proving the safety of this aircraft. Now the beauty of this aircraft is that it's designed around safety. So in the videos you can see you'll notice there are multiple sets of propellers. So unlike a helicopter which just has one main rotor, we have 12 sets propellers. We also have multiple sets of engines. And so the redundancy built into this aircraft allows us to build a vehicle that is very, very safe. It could be commercialized at some of the highest safety standards of any aircraft out in the market. And so the regulators. Welcome that because it could be used to the replace or supplement some of the existing aircraft on the market today. Amazing. So it could be in Japan first, then potentially the UAE, then potentially here in the US are well done. Congratulations. We'll see how this rollout goes next year. Great to have you with us, Adam Goldstein, founder and CEO of Archer Aviation.