{"id":24231,"date":"2022-12-05T23:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T23:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=24231"},"modified":"2022-12-05T23:17:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T23:17:05","slug":"archer-completes-makers-first-full-transition-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/evtol\/archer-completes-makers-first-full-transition-flight\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Archer Completes Maker\u2019s First Full Transition Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Archer Aviation Inc. announced that Maker successfully\ncompleted its first transition to full wing-borne flight on November 29, 2022.\nMaker has 12 propellers attached to six booms on a fixed wing. All 12\npropellers provide vertical lift during take-off and landing. The forward 6\npropellers tilt forward to cruise position to provide propulsion during forward\nflight, with the wing providing aerodynamic lift like a conventional airplane.\nDuring this flight, Maker\u2019s tilt propellers were locked in cruise position for\nthe first time and the aircraft flew at a calibrated airspeed of 91 knots (105\nmph).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Achieving this full transition milestone is critical to\nvalidating the flight physics of Archer\u2019s proprietary 12-tilt-6 propeller\nconfiguration that it uses on Maker as well as Midnight, which is the aircraft Archer\nrecently unveiled at its Open House on November 16th and is working to certify\nwith the FAA in late 2024. The success of the Maker flight testing program also\ndemonstrates a number of the key enabling technologies for Midnight, such as\nthe aircraft\u2019s flight control system. The Maker flight test program has\ngenerated invaluable data that Archer has leveraged in the development and\ncertification process for Midnight. Archer has made rapid progress on Maker\u2019s flight-testing\nprogram, completing this transition to fully wing-borne flight in less than 12\nmonths after its first hover flight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom day one, Archer\u2019s strategy has always been about\nfinding the most efficient path to commercializing eVTOL aircraft,\u201d said Adam\nGoldstein, Archer\u2019s Founder and CEO. \u201cThe data and experience we\u2019ve gathered\nfrom Maker\u2019s rigorous flight-testing program has been invaluable to the\ndevelopment and certification path of Midnight and lends further confidence to\nour belief that Archer will be the first company to certify an eVTOL aircraft\nin the US with the FAA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis significant achievement is a testament to the countless hours of design, simulation and wind tunnel testing that our team has conducted behind-the-scenes,\u201d said Dr. Geoff Bower, Archer\u2019s Chief Engineer responsible for overseeing Maker\u2019s flight test campaign. Dr. Bower has over a decade of experience in the eVTOL aircraft industry, during which he has helped design and build four full-scale eVTOL aircraft that have successfully completed flight test campaigns. More technical details from the flight can be found in his recent blog here<\/a>. \u201cLooking forward to the commercialization of Midnight, we\u2019ll continue to draw upon the incredible findings and lessons learned from Maker\u2019s flight-testing program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archer Aviation Inc. announced that Maker successfully completed its first transition to full wing-borne flight on November 29, 2022. Maker has 12 propellers attached to six booms on a fixed wing. All 12 propellers provide vertical lift during take-off and landing. The forward 6 propellers tilt forward to cruise position to provide propulsion during forward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evtol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maker-In-Flight_1-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24236,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24231\/revisions\/24236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}