After opening the eFF the Forum started with some Chinese only sessions. in the European night. The first sessions International sessions with simultaneous translation will start at 8 :30 CET time – you can wach at
More info to follow.
The yearly e-flight-Forum will start tomorrow as an Hybrid event with a real session in Kushan (Shanghai Region) at 9 am China (Beijing time = 2 am CET) with the Chinese sessions.
The international sessions will start at 8:30 CET with speakers from around the world in a Zoom Session which is connected with the real session in China via large screen. You can watch for free in a you tube life stream under .
All sessions will be recorded and available over the web side later.
More info here on e-flight-Journal tomorrow and later in the next issue of the PDF journal.
At an official event as part of the EU funded Corus Xuam programm at the DLR test center in Magdeburg Cochsted. A Volodrone large UAS performed several automated Flights – for example an evasive manoeuvre in a planed flight to avoid an SAR Helicopter.
Florian Hermann Bavarian Minister of state opened the first AAM Forum in Oberpfaffenhofen. With many international players like Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Autoflight as well as leading Universities like TU Munich.
More images later today
Some images here more info from Willi Tacke
Some impressions from EASA’s EUROPEAN ROTORS SHOW where EASA presented the version 4 of the SC-VTOL certification rule.
At the Technology Day event of Xpeng Autos, one of the leading Chinese electric car manufacturers, the CEO of Xpeng Autos who is also the major shareholder of its aviation subsidy HT Aero, unveiled the final design of their roadable eVTOL flying car and the video of the first flight of the demonstrator.
The final design is a flying car with a multicopter eVTOL lift component on the roof. The multicopter lift component has eight folding propellors with 3.5 meter diameter.
The full-size demonstrator has a gross weight of 1936kg, two-seat, driving range in “a few hundreds km”, flight range in “dozens km”. According to Xpeng’s CEO, they plans to show a full-size prototype next year.
On 5 October 2022 Autoflight, the eVTOL startup headquartered in Shanghai, annouced that they launched the business and operation center in California, USA, and welcome Omer Bay-Yohay, the founder and former CEO of Eviation the electric airplane startup from Israel, and Chad Cashin, the former head of business development of Joby the eVTOL company, to join Autoflight.
Omer Bay-Yohay (right) is designated as the global president of Autoflight and Chad Cashin (left) the chief commercial officer.
Omer Bay-Yohay is a veteran in electric aviation. He founded Eviation in Israel which designed and produced “Alice” an 11-seat pure electric airplane prototype. Omer Bay-Yohay left the CEO position at Eviation while remaining on board before “Alice” prototype made the first flight last week.
In January this year Autoflight set up a research, development and certification center in Augsburg, Germany, and declared that they would apply for EASA certification of their V1500M 4-seat eVTOL. The former head of Airbus EC135 and H145 projects Mark Henning joined as the head of Autoflight Europe. For more details: https://news.e-flight-journal.com/?p=626
Autoflight is test flying V1500M 4-seat eVTOL as well as a unmanned cargo conversion. The company plans to start the EASA certification process of the V1500M in 2022, and to obtain the EASA type certification in 2025. They also plan to establish more demo flight sites and conduct more demo flights in Europe. for more deails: https://news.e-flight-journal.com/?p=811, https://news.e-flight-journal.com/?p=960
Last November German Investor Lukasz Gadowski invested $100 million USD in Autoflight. Mr. Gadowski is a serial entrepreneur and startup investor who invests with his Berlin-based company Team Global in startups with a focus on eMobility on the ground and in the air. In eVTOL domain Mr. Gadowski has also invested in Volocopter and Archer. for more details: https://news.e-flight-journal.com/?p=587
