Adam Goldstein
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Founder & CEO of @FlyArcher
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Today, we announced a watershed deal to acquire three companies from The Boeing Company, Wisk , Insitu, and SkyGrid, in exchange for Boeing taking a strategic equity stake in Archer and collaborating with us. After closing, our product portfolio will span piloted air taxis, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in Groups 2 through 5, purpose-built AI for aviation, and the vertical technology stack for autonomous flight. The mission is even bigger now. It’s time to build.
Adam Goldstein1,058,193 views • 2 months ago
Despite being founded more than a decade after others in the industry, we've moved at a pace that is unmatched. The latest example of this being that the FAA has now accepted 100% of our Means of Compliance, making us the first eVTOL company to achieve this milestone and marking an important advancement in our Type Certification program. Here’s a quick recap of the rest of the updates we shared on our earnings call in case you missed it.
Adam Goldstein492,054 views • 7 months ago
Over the past few months, our Midnight program has consistently delivered strong results. We're now routinely flying longer, faster & higher as we expand the aircraft’s operational envelope. Recent flights have exceeded 55 miles, more than 30 minutes of flight time, altitudes up to our 10,000-foot service ceiling, and speeds in excess of 150 miles per hour. These missions are providing valuable certification data, while closely mirroring the majority of mission profiles we expect in early urban deployment environments. Our next flight test phase with Midnight will be piloted VTOL, including full transition flights with our type certification intent four-blade aft propellers. Unlike the CTOL envelope that we are now close to completing testing on, the VTOL and transition flight regimes are not new for Midnight, as we have previously completed an extensive flight test campaign with Midnight without a pilot onboard. Our progression from non-piloted VTOL to piloted CTOL to piloted VTOL & CTOL campaigns is optimized for safety and disciplined execution that builds our readiness for commercial operations. The momentum continues to grow, and the team continues to deliver.
Adam Goldstein590,542 views • 11 months ago
Just hopped off with Tim Stenovec & Carol Massar on Bloomberg. Lots of acronyms flying around with EIPP etc but the basic way to think about it is this is the industry’s Waymo moment. No one had any idea what those cars were when they arrived in cities, but they rolled out methodically and showed everyone they were safe/quiet/convenient/etc. Now they’re just a part of normal life. Air taxi flights will begin via eIPP later this year in a similar way (just a few, no passengers). Good chance to bring the public and cities along for the journey and build the muscle needed to operate at scale.
Adam Goldstein195,918 views • 9 months ago
Two years ago at the Paris Airshow, we were sharing a vision. Today, we’re executing on it. From piloted flight tests, multiple full-scale aircraft built and flown and $1B+ in new funding to the roll out of planned air taxi networks and becoming the exclusive air taxi provider of the LA28 Olympics, we’ve made bold progress since we last visited Le Bourget. At this year’s Paris Air Show, leaders like U.S. Secretary of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau highlighted what we’ve long believed: AAM is the future and it’s arriving fast - both in the U.S. and abroad. At the next Paris Air Show in 2027, we expect to be back with something even more powerful: a product in service, passengers in the air, and cities that are starting to move differently.
Adam Goldstein224,244 views • 1 year ago
Here are my key filters when evaluating the near-term, commercial potential of an eVTOL: - Needs to be piloted - Needs to be able to handle VTOL & CTOL in ordinary day-to-day operations to maximize functional flexibility, efficiency and increase safety - Needs to be ~6,000 lbs to handle four passengers - Needs to use battery cells that have a proven safe architecture, demonstrated reliability, decades of volume manufacturing and are sourced from a trusted manufacturer Delivering an aircraft that hits on all of those is our core focus. With our prior Midnight aircraft we completed the full VTOL envelope. Now we're working through the CTOL envelope with the new aircraft to ensure Midnight can reliably, efficiently and safely operate in and out of both traditional runways and vertical take off and landing locations.
Adam Goldstein53,563 views • 1 year ago
A few years ago Kyle Clark told me charging would be critical to the future of air taxis. He was right. This month we partnered up to think not just about this year's charging requirements or even next year's, but what is required for this industry over the next decade. The result was America's Consortium for Electric Skyways aka ACES. Thanks to Dan Edwards from the FAA and Matt Byrd from Hillwood Aviation for joining Kyle and me at Farnborough to talk through how we make this happen.
Adam Goldstein14,569 views • 3 months ago