Archer Surpasses 400 Test Flights This Year, Achieving Company Milestone Four Months Ahead Of Schedule
September 03 2024 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Today Archer Aviation announced that it has completed 402 test
flights so far this year, surpassing the 400 test flight goal it
set for 2024 approximately four months ahead of schedule.
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Today Archer Aviation announced that it
has completed 402 test flights so far this year, surpassing the 400
test flight goal it set for 2024 approximately four months ahead of
schedule. (Photo: Business Wire)
The 400 plus flights were conducted over the last eight months
as the company ramps flight test operations in advance of
for-credit flight testing with the FAA.
Adam Goldstein, CEO and founder of Archer said, “When we first
set our goal for 400 flights this year it was viewed as aggressive,
but here we are in August already knocking it out. I’m proud of the
Archer flight test team and the supporting groups that made it
happen.”
Each flight produces critical data that Archer’s teams use to
evaluate and refine aircraft loads, vibrations, performance and
handling qualities.
Most recently, the Archer flight test team has focused on five
key testing areas:
- Transition Flights: Continuing to conduct
longer-distance and higher-speed transition flights to gather data,
extend endurance and ensure maximum safety.
- High-Rate Operations: Increasing per-day flights to
simulate the high cadence of Archer’s anticipated commercial
operations and test Midnight’s durability.
- Advancing Landing Profiles: Completing a series of hover
landings in various wind conditions with different rates of descent
and flare heights to expand Midnight’s wind envelope and further
optimize its landing profile.
- Enhancing Acoustic Measurement: Conducting a series of
hover operations with various microphone arrays to collect
supplemental data for the FAA and to further evaluate and tune
Midnight’s noise signature.
- Optimizing Control Laws: Regressing through the envelope
with a series of optimizations made to the control laws which will
extend Midnight’s endurance.
This announcement follows Archer’s planned network in Los
Angeles and its recently announced developments with Southwest
Airlines and United Airlines. It also follows major milestones,
such as certification to begin operating as a commercial airline
and the recent delivery of Archer’s first aircraft to the United
States Air Force.
About Archer
Archer is a leader in the electrification of aviation. We are
designing and developing the key enabling technologies and aircraft
that are necessary to power the next great transportation
revolution. Our goal is for our proprietary technology to deliver
unprecedented connectivity to the people and places across the most
congested cities in the world. To learn more, visit
www.archer.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward looking statements regarding
Archer’s future business plans and goals. These forward-looking
statements are only predictions and may differ materially from
actual results due to a variety of factors. The risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from the
results predicted are more fully detailed in Archer’s filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent
Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q,
available at www.sec.gov. In addition, please note that any
forward-looking statements contained herein are based on
assumptions that Archer believes to be reasonable as of the date of
this press release. Archer undertakes no obligation to update these
statements as a result of new information or future events.
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