Awesome Tips United Airlines First Air Taxi Revealed: Archer Midnight eVTOL
Archer Aviation introduced its first production model eVTOL that’s called Midnight, an electric air taxi designed for high-demand urban flights. United Airlines has put down a deposit for 100 Midnights to begin passenger service in 2025.
Archer Aviation introduced its first production model eVTOL that’s called Midnight, an electric air taxi designed for high-demand urban flights. United Airlines has put down a deposit for 100 Midnights to begin passenger service in 2025.
0:00 Intro
0:55 Midnight eVTOL
1:54 Maker Prototype Test Flight
2:29 Archer x United
3:26 Conclusion
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So much to say, but so little time. Iโll then summarize: Redonkulous.
What if you could take a train to the airport? No traffic. No stupid plane to die in during a storm.
Just hope you're not living under their flight path ๐
I somehow cannot imagine these aircraft having no incidents which is what might create FUD around this project.
What about freerly flying birds. It's dangerous to fly among birds.
A huge drone taxi for public transport!!!!!!!!!!.๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐
So you mean a helicopter? ๐
er helicopters?
I like Joby aviationโs version much better so far
So much propeller drag it's not even funny!
Helicopter with extra steps
NO! If we allow this it will grow and the noise will be terrible and constant. They might be a little less noisy than helicopters but still VERY noisy.
Airlines need a public bailout because they're "too big to fail" yet they can afford these for the elite
or… get this… build a train route. or subway. or… anything else that's infinitely more efficient.
Will it have the same maintenance issues as the marines ospreys?
Lets be real, when they say "you could" they are talking to the people that make more than 300k a year and can afford the ride…
No, I want decent public transportation
The noise benchmark should not be, the louder, helicopters but small prop aircraft. Also do these things have parachutes?
Besides noise, what are the advantages over helicopters? It must be cost, but they didn't say? I feel like this product needs to address " why this instead of a helicopter"?
0:56 Business class commuters flying between buildings? I'll vote against that!
Joby aviation's S4 eVTOL seems like it's a much more promising venture since they have more heavy investors behind it.
Cool, but likely a pie in the sky scam to draw in investor money.
How do I get the sound track to this video?
Never getting me on 1 of these Kobecopter death traps
Arenโt all airplanes air taxis? ๐๐
What if public taxes paid for Public transport not private transport via public roads?
So let me get this straight: your target demographic is people arriving at an airport, with a destination of the city center. So start point, end piint, and the path between them are all ptetty much set in stone. So why would you invest all of this money into designing, building, permiting, testing, insurance, etc, etc, for a whole new product, when you could just build a high speed railway?… this seems like reinventing the wheel, but intentionally making it overly complex and prohibitively expensive just so you can claim that you're "innovating"
America would rather create flying cars than fix it's public transport infrastructure.
I saw one of these last week, and thought I was losing my mind.
In the same way we survived the move to automotive traffic and heavy-body air traffic, we will survive this evolution too. In between the FAA, the DOT, and market demand, this is an adaptable and scalable resource that potentially will have great benefits to the environment.
Awesome stuff! ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐
woooow an electric helicopter 0o0
So a flying coffin between and above tall buildings transporting one-to-two people max. As opposed to on-the-ground solutions that can transport many more households at onceโฆ while costing a fraction of this. Hmmm
Dump shares in United Airlines.
4 passengers means 400 dollars per trip. With cost of aircraft, pilots, airport fees is that enough revenue?
No way in F these will be affordable.
03:37 how are you going to end this promising video by saying that the aircraft hasnโt even flown yet. Is there no proven concept yet?
The premise of this video is laughable.
Edit:
Why is it not made clear to the viewer that this is an advertorial?