The new five-passenger Midnight made a demo flight at its public unveiling yesterday in California.
, is aiming to ease urban congestion by taking to the skies. Using zero emissions aircraft that resemble flying drones, these startups leverage tech that enables compact craft to negotiate tight city spaces and provide door-to-door transportation high above earthbound traffic jams.
Based on Maker, an Archer prototype engineered for feasibility testing, the production-spec Midnight is built around one pilot and four passengers and is fully powered by batteries. With a payload capacity over 1,000 pounds, Midnight is intended to fly 20-mile back-to-back trips interspersed with 10-minute charging sessions.
Unlike conventional small aircraft, Archer says these airborne EVs possess no single critical point of failure, claiming enough redundancy to make them exceptionally safe and trouble-free. The 12-rotor electric aircraft will do back-to-back trips of 20 miles each, with ten-minute charges between flights.When moving along at its cruising altitude of 2,000 feet, Midnight’s noise levels are measured at only 45 dBA on the ground, which is 1,000 times quieter than a conventional helicopter.
It may sound like a Blade Runner-inspired flight of fantasy, but the eVTOL movement has made considerable strides towards making these sci-fi-like aircraft a reality. Archer says it will tackle the Manhattan-to-New-Jersey route through its
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