The big news in electric aviation this week in aviation of course is Joby flying in Manhattan (for instance this 5 minute flight from West 34th street heliport to the Downtown Skyport that also did a loop around Governor’s island for fun), and the Hydrogen powered JAI30 flying in Arizona. It’s not often I get to link to Good Morning America for video of electric aircraft.
In other news, SkyZero launched a new eIPP article series. If you’re trying to figure out what all this might mean, how it might accelerate things, what its limits are, how it will impact different OEMs differently, well, this is what we’re trying to untangle.
The first article, about the history of eIPP and the programs that came before it came out last week, the next one on the history of the “Other Transactions Authorization” structure comes out this week. We’ll cover the four programs in detail a bit later.
Link to the first article in the series
EVTOL Weekly
As usual, we’ll cover Archer, BETA, Joby and Vertical. We’ll start with analysis, then the flight lots, then the low precision update.
Analysis
0️⃣ Archer
No flight week, ground activity did include FAR static pitot testing for N704AX
↗️ BETA TECHNOLOGIES
BETA touring all over Philadelphia and the east coast USA in addition to Japan and Sweden pushed them up. Good to see they kept up the VTOL flying also even if minutes and kms were down on VTOL, flight counts remained solid.
↗️ Joby
Up in flight count, down in kms and hours - but I’m giving them an “up” for the live flying and landing in heliports on the island of Manhattan, plus the Arizona Hydrogen JAI was pretty cool. We’ll include the N547JX registration watch in the flight logs in addition to the Hydrogen and hybrid tech demonstrators this week.
0️⃣ Vertical Aerospace
Nothing on our radar this week, though they delivered some beautiful footage of the transition flight they flew recently.
Flight Logs
Archer (CTOL)
No flying this week.
