The aircraft is designed to fly one pilot and four passengers on 20-mile back-to-back trips.
After almost half a decade of work, the California company reached another key milestone in its test program on Wednesday as the) aircraft took flight.
Midnight is fully powered by batteries and equipped with 12 rotors. It can carry one pilot and four passengers, with a payload capacity of more than 1,000 pounds. The aircraft is designed to fly 20-mile back-to-back trips, with 10-minute charging sessions in between. Cruising at an altitude of 2,000 feet, the eVTOL makes only 45 decibels of noise, making it 1,000 times quieter than a conventional helicopter.Midnight is expected to progress from hover to full flight in the coming months.
“The next year and a half will be focused on continuing to rapidly advance our flight test program and Archer’s electric air taxi operations as we prepare to bring Midnight to market in 2025,” Goldstein adds.It’s not only Archer’s test program that is progressing, either; the company’s partnerships are taking off, too. The company says it plans to develop a Manhattan-to-New-Jersey route through a $10 million partnership with United Airlines.
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