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<p>Wisk Aero says it is on track to start flying the latest version of its four-seat autonomous eVTOL aircraft in 2024. At this week's NBAA-BACE business aviation show in Las Vegas, the company's chief marketing officer Rebecca Tanner said that the first prototype&nbsp;of what it refers to as its Generation 6 aircraft is now under construction.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Over the last decade, the first five generations of Wisk's flight-test vehicles have amassed 1,600 flight hours. The Generation 5 aircraft continues to be used for fully autonomous flight testing and public demonstration flights, including earlier this year at EAA AirVenture. During October it has been performing test flights in the Los Angeles area from Long Beach Airport and was participated in the Festival of Flight event there.</p>
<p>According to Wisk, which is now a subsidiary of Boeing, it has already&nbsp;applied for its FAA type certificate and was well on its way to completing the G1 and G2 requirements of that process. At the NBAA show, the company displayed a mock-up of the Generation 6 vehicle,&nbsp;fitted with a luggage compartment in the nose with room for four roller bags and passenger conveniences, including air conditioning and USB charging ports.</p>
<p>Tanner explained that performance goals for the all-electric aircraft include a range of 90 miles, a cruising speed of 100 to 120 mph, full fast charging in 15 minutes, and a service ceiling of 4,000 feet. While the aircraft will be IFR certified, it will not be approved for flights into known icing conditions.</p>
<p>The all-electric aircraft features 12 main rotors, including six on the forward section of the wing that tilt&nbsp;up and down for takeoff and landing. It is also equipped with skid gear, as opposed to wheels, to save weight. Unlike the Generation 5 aircraft, it does not feature an aft propulsor, with thrust coming from the forward rotors.</p>
<p>According to Tanner, the new eVTOL prototype will be flown by a ground-based “remote vehicle supervisor” and passengers would be able to proactively communicate with Wisk ground personnel during flights via a button and individual touchscreens at each seat location. Passengers would be assisted onto and off the aircraft, with Wisk itself planning to be the sole operator of the vehicle, at least in the early stages of commercial operation.</p>
<p>The aircraft itself features triple-redundant systems and advanced sensor technology, and it can fly with multiple motors inoperative.&nbsp;Tanner said Wisk is building its own air-cooled motors and drivetrain components for the aircraft, and its cabin would be rapidly reconfigurable with possible applications for cargo and air ambulance.</p>
<p>The Gen 6 prototype aircraft will be built at the company’s main facility in Mountain View, California. Tanner shared that Wisk would have an announcement regarding the location of a serial production facility within the coming months, but it will not be in Silicon Valley. She added that Wisk is aiming to begin commercial service within the decade and anticipated production volumes “in the thousands.”</p>
<p>In June, Wisk announced the aircraft&nbsp;will use Safran’s SkyNaute inertial navigation system. Safran based the SkyNaute system on its HRG Crystal Hemispherical Gyroscope, and the French company says it is the most compact system of its type, which is a significant attribute in the context of small eVTOL aircraft. Even when global navigation satellite systems are jammed, SkyNaute’s hybrid inertial navigation system ensures&nbsp;that the aircraft flies a precise trajectory during all phases of flight.</p>
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Mark Huber

Wisk Reports Generation 6 Autonomous eVTOL Aircraft is On Track For Flight Testing in 2024

<p>Rival eVTOL air taxi developers Archer Aviation and Wisk Aero have reached a settlement in their two-year-long legal dispute over allegations of intellectual property theft. In a surprising turn of events, the two California-based competitors have agreed to collaborate on autonomous flight technology that could one day enable unpiloted, passenger-carrying air taxi operations.</p>
<p>In a call with investors on Thursday, Archer CEO Adam Goldstein said the company intends to produce an autonomous, unpiloted version of its Midnight eVTOL air taxi in the future, and that Wisk—a Boeing subsidiary—will be Archer’s exclusive provider of autonomous flight technology.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“Our collaboration with Boeing and its subsidiary Wisk will be focused on supporting the integration of Western autonomy technology in future variants of our aircraft,” Goldstein said. “This collaboration could bring for Archer the potential to access world-leading autonomy technology while substantially reducing the cost of developing it ourselves.”</p>
<p>While the full terms of the legal settlement have not been made public, according to Archer's financial filings&nbsp;the company is delivering just over 13 million of its shares&nbsp;to Wisk (nominally valued at $73 million). In a <a href="https://s27.q4cdn.com/936913558/files/doc_earnings/2023/q2/earnings-result/Shareholder-Letter-Q223.pdf">letter to shareholders</a> issued Thursday, Archer explained that this consists of “an initial $25 million charge for the portion of warrants that are immediately vested and a $48 million charge for the unvested portion that is subject to certain vesting criteria and may never be realized.”&nbsp; The settlement, explained as part of a <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1824502/000162828023028928/achr-20230810.htm">Securities and Exchange Commission filing</a>,&nbsp;was announced days before the case was due to be heard in a San Francisco federal court, starting on August 14.</p>
<h3 class="subheading"><strong>Boeing, Stellantis, United, and ARK Back New $215 Million Funding Round</strong></h3>
<p>Boeing, Wisk’s parent company, has also decided to invest an undisclosed amount in Archer. In a statement released Thursday, Archer reported a $215 million funding round with participation from Boeing and several prior investors, including $70 million from Stellantis and undisclosed amounts from United Airlines, ARK Investment Management, and others. The latest funding round brings Archer’s total funding to over $1.1 billion to date. In the shareholder letter, Archer reported having $407.6 million cash in hand.</p>
<p><strong>Related:</strong> <a href="https://futureflight.aero/news-article/2023-08-09/cash-reserve-reporting-reveals-haves-and-have-nots-among-evtol-aircraft">Cash Reserve Reporting Reveals Haves and Have-nots among eVTOL Aircraft Developers</a>&nbsp;</p>
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<h3 class="subheading"><strong>Wisk vs. Archer</strong></h3>
<p>Wisk, which was previously run as a joint venture between Boeing and <a href="https://futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-09-22/kittyhawk-signals-its-imminent-exit-evtol-aircraft-innovation">Kitty Hawk</a>, has been developing several generations of eVTOL technology demonstrators since 2015, with plans to certify a fully autonomous, four-seat eVTOL air taxi sometime in the next decade. Founded in 2018, Archer has been developing its own four-passenger eVTOL air taxi, but one that has a fifth seat for a pilot. Archer intends to have its piloted aircraft in service by 2025.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In April 2021, Wisk <a href="https://futureflight.aero/news-article/2021-04-06/wisk-sues-archer-alleging-theft-and-patent-infringement-over-evtol-aircraft">filed a lawsuit</a> against Archer in the U.S. federal court for the Northern District of California, accusing the latter of stealing its trade secrets. The lawsuit alleged that a disgruntled former Wisk employee who left the company to join Archer in January 2020 stole thousands of files containing proprietary and confidential information, including designs for aircraft and their various components and subsystems, as well as manufacturing and test data.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Wisk sought an injunction to stop Archer from using what it claimed was Wisk’s protected intellectual property in the development of its own eVTOL air taxi—specifically, its two-seat technology demonstrator. In June 2021, two months after Wisk filed the lawsuit, Archer unveiled its first eVTOL technology demonstrator: a two-seat aircraft called <a href="https://futureflight.aero/news-article/2021-06-10/archer-unveils-maker-evtol-technology-demonstrator">Maker</a>. Wisk’s own two-seat technology demonstrator, a fifth-generation aircraft called Cora, was revealed in 2018. Last October, Wisk revealed <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-10-02/wisk-aero-unveils-four-seat-autonomous-evtol-air-taxi">its sixth-generation aircraft</a>, and Archer <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-11-17/archer-aviation-reveals-full-sized-midnight-evtol-air-taxi">revealed its full-scale Midnight aircraft</a> just a few weeks later.</p>
<p>Both companies’ designs, including the two-seat technology demonstrators and subsequent full-scale models, feature a fixed wing with tilting propellers that provide both vertical lift and forward propulsion. This type of configuration is not exactly unique among eVTOL aircraft. However, Wisk argued that the design of Archer’s Maker aircraft looked suspiciously similar to the patented design of Wisk’s sixth-generation aircraft, which had not yet been publicly revealed.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Archer rebutted these allegations, claiming that Wisk filed its patent application for the “Gen 6” aircraft in January 2020 only <a href="https://futureflight.aero/news-article/2021-06-25/archer-says-wisk-filed-evtol-patent-only-after-hearing-about-its-design">after it had learned</a> of Archer’s tiltrotor design. According to a court filing made by Archer’s legal team, Wisk was made aware of Archer’s design by senior engineer Geoff Long following a recruitment meeting on Dec. 9, 2019.&nbsp;</p>
<h3 class="subheading"><strong>Not a Federal Case</strong></h3>
<p>Following an investigation by the FBI and the Department of Justice, federal prosecutors in February this year <a href="https://futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-02-03/archer-says-feds-decision-not-prosecute-employee-boosts-its-defense-wisk">decided not to pursue any charges</a> against the employee who allegedly brought Wisk’s trade secrets to Archer. While Archer touted this as a victory at the time, Wisk’s legal team asserted that this criminal investigation was separate from its civil litigation against Archer and that it would not affect the outcome of the case. The case of Wisk v. Archer was scheduled to go to trial on August 14, but now that the parties have settled, there will be no court appearances.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“We are pleased to have reached a mutually agreeable settlement with Archer that resolves our concerns while also eliminating the need for a costly and distracting trial,” a Wisk spokesperson told <strong>AIN</strong> in an email. “Wisk is committed to working collaboratively within the industry and leading in autonomous passenger flight.”&nbsp;<br><br>
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Hanneke Weitering

Archer and Wisk Reach Settlement Over Trade Secrets Lawsuit

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Wisk's Cora eVTOL made its public debut with a flight

Wisk Flies eVTOL Autonomously, Unmanned at AirVenture

<p>Wisk Aero will use Safran’s SkyNaute inertial navigation system for the four-passenger eVTOL air taxi it intends to operate fully autonomously, without a pilot on board. The companies announced the partnership this week at the Paris Airshow.</p>
<p>The Boeing-owned advanced air mobility company is displaying what calls its Generation 6 eVTOL aircraft at Le Bourget. According to the company, it has conducted more than 1,600 test flights in various earlier iterations of the vehicle. While the timeline for approving autonomous passenger-carrying flights remains unclear, Wisk has indicated it hopes to start commercial flights around the end of the 2020s.</p>
<p>The all-electric Generation 6 aircraft would&nbsp;fly up to 90 miles at a cruise speed of 120 knots and an altitude between 2,500 and 4,000 feet. The aircraft features 12 propellers, six of which can tilt, which allows the aircraft to take off and land vertically. During cruise, the aircraft transitions from vertical to wing-borne horizontal flight. Wisk says its batteries will take just 15 minutes to fully recharge.</p>
<p>Safran based the SkyNaute system on its HRG Crystal Hemispherical Gyroscope, and the French company says it is the most compact system of its type, a significant feature&nbsp;in the context of small eVTOL aircraft. Even when global navigation satellite systems are jammed, SkyNaute’s hybrid inertial navigation system ensures&nbsp;that the aircraft flies a precise trajectory during all phases of flight.</p>
<p>“Wisk is building and certifying the first commercial autonomous aircraft&nbsp;and the high-integrity avionics and software stack that enables it,” said Wisk Aero CEO Brian Yutko. “We are thrilled to be developing Safran’s HRG technology as part of this. Our initial testing has confirmed the SkyNaute technology is a step change in navigation system performance and we look forward to deploying it on our sixth-generation air taxi.”</p>


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Charles Alcock

Wisk's eVTOL Air Taxi To Navigate with Safran's SkyNaute

<p><span><span><span>Boeing has assumed full ownership of eVTOL aircraft developer Wisk Aero, which has been run as a joint venture with Kitty Hawk, an advanced mobility start-up formed by Google co-founder Larry Page and Google executive Sebastian Thrun. Speaking at a media briefing in South Carolina on May 31, Wisk CEO Brian Yutko announced the change of ownership while not providing any details about financial terms for the transaction between Boeing and its former partners.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Kitty Hawk, which had been working on the Heaviside autonomous eVTOL vehicle, <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-09-22/kittyhawk-signals-its-imminent-exit-evtol-aircraft-innovation">closed down</a>&nbsp;in September 2022. At the time, Wisk said that the move did not impact its ownership and that Kitty Hawk’s backers would remain investors in its plans to bring a four-seat, passenger-carrying autonomous eVTOL vehicle to market later in this decade.</span></span></span></p>
<p>As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing group, Wisk&nbsp;will continue to operate as an independent company with oversight by the Boeing board. A spokesman told&nbsp;<strong>FutureFlight</strong> that Boeing will continue to provide additional support through access to talent and expertise.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Boeing is now focusing most of its efforts to break into the <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-09-21/boeing-and-wisk-issue-concept-operations-urban-air-mobility">advanced air mobility sector</a> on Wisk, having made a<a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-01-24/boeing-bets-big-evtols-450-million-funding-wisk-aero"> $450 million investment </a>in the company in early 2022. Its rival, Airbus, is developing its own four-passenger eVTOL aircraft called the CityAirbus NextGen.</p>
<p><span><span><span>In October 2022, Wisk unveiled what it describes as its <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-10-03/wisk-aero-unveils-four-seat-autonomous-evtol-air-taxi">sixth-generation eVTOL design</a> at its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The all-electric aircraft&nbsp;features 12 wing-mounted propellers, six of which tilt. Yutko told reporters that the projected range will be up to around 100 miles, which is slightly more than the 90 miles announced last year, with a cruise speed of 120 knots at altitudes between 2,500 and 4,000 feet.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>With earlier technology demonstrators, including the fifth-generation Cora vehicle, Wisk has made more than 1,600 test flights in California and New Zealand, where it has conducted some early development work. Yutko said the company now employs 700 people and collaborates closely with engineering teams from Boeing and its Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>In early May, <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2023-05-09/wisk-and-japan-airlines-partner-bring-autonomous-air-taxi-flights-japan">Japan Airlines (JAL) signed a memorandum of understanding </a>with Wisk to jointly work to&nbsp;introduce air taxi flights to Japan. The carrier, which is the first to publicly partner with Wisk, has not committed to buying any of its eVTOL vehicles but is providing support in areas such as operations and maintenance. JAL has previously committed to adding Vertical Aerospace’s VX-4 four-passenger, piloted eVTOL vehicle to its fleet.</span></span></span></p>
<h3 class="subheading"><span><span><span><strong>Autonomy or Bust Is Wisk's Path To Unlocking Advanced Air Mobility's Potential&nbsp;</strong></span></span></span></h3>
<p><span><span><span>Initially, Wisk intends to be the sole operator for its eVTOL aircraft as the company seeks to prove the <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-04-11/wisk-and-skyports-issue-concept-operations-autonomous-evtol-aircraft">viability of autonomous operations </a>for commercial passenger services. It has not yet set a timeline for type certification—in part, because the regulatory path to this is not yet fully defined—but Yutko indicated that the company expects to secure the required Part 135 operators certificate fairly soon.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>According to Wisk, autonomy is critical to scaling up advanced air mobility services to unlock the cost structures that it and other pioneers believe could transform air transport. “There’s a misnomer in the industry that this is about removing the pilot,” he told reporters. “It’s not about that. That’s not actually where the value of autonomy comes from. It comes from ‘unconstraining’ the aircraft from what it has to carry.”</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Giving the example of cargo operations, Yutko said that many aircraft are chronically underutilized. “They’ll fly out in the morning to a remote location and there they have to wait for an airworthy pilot and the cargo to be in the same place at the same time to bring it back to the hub,” he maintained. “If you were to unconstrain that system, you could move that aircraft around more to increase utilization, increase the flexibility of the network. So that’s what we see as the actual value in terms of scalability and improved economics of autonomy.”</span></span></span></p>


Boeing Takes Full Control of Autonomous eVTOL Developer Wisk Aero

<p>Japan Airlines (JAL) has signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based eVTOL air taxi developer Wisk Aero to bring autonomous air taxi flights to Japan, the companies announced Tuesday. JAL is the first airline to partner with Wisk, which revealed its self-flying air taxi, called <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-10-03/wisk-aero-unveils-four-seat-autonomous-evtol-air-taxi">Gen 6,</a>&nbsp;in October.</p>
<p>As part of the agreement, Wisk will work closely with the airline’s maintenance subsidiary, JAL Engineering Co. (JALEC), to come up with plans for the operation&nbsp;and maintenance of Wisk’s autonomous air taxis in Japan. But JAL is not yet committing to purchasing any of Wisk’s aircraft.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“Wisk is in a strong financial position and isn’t focused on driving aircraft orders at this time," a company&nbsp;spokesman told <strong>FutureFlight</strong>. "Our partnership with Japan Airlines is focused on the introduction of autonomous aircraft into the Japanese national airspace system. We believe that partnering on these activities will bring incredible value to the Japanese market. When operations begin in Japan or another country, Wisk intends to initially operate its fleet.”</p>
<p>With firm backing from Boeing, Wisk is developing a fully electric and autonomous air taxi designed to carry four passengers on flights of up to around 90 miles (140 kilometers). In lieu of onboard pilots, <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/aircraft-program/wisk?model=wisk">Wisk’s eVTOL air taxi</a> flights will be remotely operated and monitored by personnel on the ground in a fleet operations center.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In addition to its certification efforts in the U.S., Wisk has been leading efforts to introduce eVTOL air taxi operations in New Zealand and <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-brief/2023-02-09/wisk-and-south-east-queensland-officials-envision-autonomous-evtol-operations">Australia</a>. The company has already been conducting <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2021-03-30/wisk-prepares-next-phase-cora-flight-trials-new-zealand">flight trials</a> with its fifth-generation prototype, called Cora, in Australia. Wisk has accrued more than 1,000 flight test hours with its earlier prototypes, but its newest Gen 6 aircraft has yet to take flight.&nbsp;</p>
<p>While several other eVTOL aircraft developers plan to have their piloted air taxis certified and in service by 2025, Wisk has not yet disclosed a timeline for when its self-flying air taxis will enter service. That’s because the path to certification is a bit more complicated for pilotless aircraft than it is for air taxis with onboard pilots.&nbsp;</p>
<p>To introduce self-flying air taxi services in Japan, Wisk and JALEC will work with the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) and other local authorities to consider regulatory requirements and safety measures. The partners will also develop technical plans for the integration of pilotless and autonomous aircraft into Japan’s national airspace system.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“We are very excited to be working with Japan Airlines, and also with the Boeing Japan team," Wisk's spokesman said. "Our work with these partners and other stakeholders will help us understand the process that we will use to bring self-flying, advanced air mobility to Japan. This will tell us when we need to be hiring and training local staff to support our future operations.”</p>
<p>JAL, Japan’s flag carrier and largest airline, plans to be an early adopter of eVTOL air taxi services in the country&nbsp;and has already partnered with several aircraft developers to help bring its urban air mobility vision to fruition. In 2020, JAL became a partner of and investor in German eVTOL developer <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2020-09-29/japan-airlines-teams-volocopter-prepare-launch-evtol-air-taxi-operations">Volocopter</a>, which is developing a two-seat air taxi called VoloCity as well as a cargo-carrying version called VoloDrone. A year later, the airline announced plans to lease or purchase up to 100 of Vertical Aerospace’s four-seat VA-X4 eVTOL air taxis <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2021-10-20/japan-airlines-could-take-100-evtol-aircraft-air-taxi-plans-2025-osaka">from leasing group Avolon</a>.</p>


Wisk and Japan Airlines Partner To Bring Autonomous Air Taxi Flights to Japan

<p>California-based autonomous eVTOL air taxi developer Wisk Aero and the South East Queensland Council of Mayors (COMSEQ)&nbsp;have published a&nbsp;<a href="https://wisk.aero/news/whitepaper/">white paper</a> describing the opportunities and benefits that advanced air mobility (AAM) can bring to the Australian region.</p>
<p>COMSEQ and <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/aircraft-program/wisk">Wisk</a> have been working together to introduce AAM in Australia since July of 2022 when the two entities <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-06-08/wisk-expands-autonomous-evtol-operations-plans-australia">signed a memorandum of understanding</a> in which they pledged to collaborate&nbsp;in support of accessible, autonomous, and sustainable flight options in South East Queensland.</p>
<p>Brisbane, the capital of South East Queensland and the region's most populous city, has already been identified as <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2021-10-12/brisbane-set-open-australias-first-evtol-air-taxi-base-2023">a likely early adopter of eVTOL operations</a>, with some plans hinging on the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games that the city will host. Several companies, including Melbourne-based <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-01-13/agreement-parking-lot-group-offers-400-australian-vertiport-sites">Skyportz</a>, have been preparing&nbsp;to develop vertiports to support those air taxi operations.</p>
<p>South East Queensland is one of the fastest-growing areas in Australia. It covers about 35,248 sq&nbsp;km (13,609 sq mi) in the easternmost part of the country. It has a population of about 3.8 million, and that’s expected to grow to 5.4 million by 2041. A <a href="https://seqmayors.qld.gov.au/news/seq-people-mass-movement-study-one-year-on-20200123">study</a>&nbsp;by COMSEQ in 2019 found that the demand for transportation services in the region is expected to increase by 30 percent by 2031.&nbsp;</p>
<p>According to the new white paper, the geography of South East Queensland “presents significant opportunities for air taxi services,” with urban and regional centers spread across the state. Electric air taxi services would provide people in the region—which is largely underserved by aviation—with a low-cost, sustainable, and accessible mode of transportation. Of course, the adoption of AAM would also produce economic opportunities and plenty of new jobs for the area’s growing population.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“Our work with Wisk sends a clear message to the rest of the world that Brisbane and South East Queensland are open for business," said Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner.&nbsp;We’re a go-to market for global innovation and technology as the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games draw closer.</p>
<p>“We know technology is changing the way we live, and we want to ensure South East Queensland is at the forefront of opportunities that improve our region’s connectivity, our local environment, and our liveability. This technology will have an important role to play in an integrated regional transport network, complementing other services like rail and metro. It also presents an opportunity to unlock the South East’s tourism market by providing new connections between our coast, island, and rural destinations.”&nbsp;</p>
<p>Founded in 2019 as a partnership between Boeing and Kittyhawk, Wisk is developing a fully electric and autonomous eVTOL air taxi designed to carry four passengers on short trips of up to 25 miles (40 kilometers) without a pilot on board. The company has conducted extensive flight tests with an unpiloted, two-seat prototype called Cora, and it <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-10-03/wisk-aero-unveils-four-seat-autonomous-evtol-air-taxi">revealed its first production aircraft</a>, called the Generation 6,&nbsp;in October 2022. In September, the company published another white paper on its <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-09-21/boeing-and-wisk-issue-concept-operations-urban-air-mobility">concept of operations</a>, which details how it envisions an urban air mobility ecosystem with pilotless air taxis.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Wisk and COMSEQ imagine an AAM ecosystem in South East Queensland where eVTOL air taxis would complement existing transportation options as well as infrastructure still under development, such as Brisbane Metro’s new fleet of electric buses and subways, and the Cross River Rail, an&nbsp;underground rail system in Brisbane that's scheduled to be completed by 2025. Air taxi services can also enable shorter commute times for people in regional communities with less robust transportation infrastructure in place, such as Scenic Rim, Somerset, Toowoomba, and Lockyer Valley.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“Queensland has an incredible opportunity to be at the forefront of AAM,” said Catherine MacGowan, Wisk’s Asia Pacific regional director. “The region is experiencing unprecedented growth, and establishing a thriving AAM sector will create important economic opportunities and transportation linkages that will help the region develop in a sustainable way.”</p>


Wisk and South East Queensland Officials Envision Autonomous eVTOL Operations in Australia

<p><span><span><span>Two leading eVTOL aircraft developers, Wisk Aero and Lilium, have announced changes to their senior leadership teams. The moves come at the start of a year that industry observers say could prove critical to the ability of the advanced air mobility sector’s front-runners to meet their ambitious timelines. Both companies are seeking to&nbsp;bring&nbsp;products to market at a time when accessing&nbsp;new sources of funding could be more challenging.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>On January 17, U.S. company Wisk named Boeing executive Brian Yutko as its next CEO. He will take over from Gary Gysin, who is retiring&nbsp;on February 1. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Gysin has led Wisk since 2019 when the company was established with the backing of leading shareholders Kitty Hawk and Boeing. He has led the development of the sixth-generation eVTOL aircraft, which&nbsp;the company <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-10-02/wisk-aero-unveils-four-seat-autonomous-evtol-air-taxi">unveiled last year</a>, and&nbsp;was instrumental in securing an additional <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-01-24/boeing-bets-big-evtols-450-million-funding-wisk-aero">$450 million investment</a> from Boeing in January 2022.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Yutko is currently Boeing's vice president and chief engineer of sustainability and future mobility. He was previously chief technologist for the U.S. aerospace group's Boeing NeXt business unit and prior to that served as senior vice president of programs at its Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><strong>Lilium Steps Up Industrialization Plan</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Germany’s Lilium this week announced internal appointments that will see Oliver Vogelgesang taking over as CFO from Geoffrey Richardson, while Sebastien Borel will become&nbsp;chief commercial officer. Vogelgesang joined the company in July 2021 as senior vice president for finance and controlling, while Borel has been senior vice president commercial since April 2022, and was previously vice president business.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Richardson has been with Lilium since November 2020. As CFO, he was instrumental in securing the start-up’s <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2021-09-15/lilium-and-archer-head-wall-street-share-flotations">Nasdaq listing</a> in September 2021 and then in raising $119 million in a <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-11-18/lilium-raises-119-million-evtol-aircraft-program-new-share-issue">funding round</a> completed in November 2022. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>According to the company, the next phase of its plans to bring the six-seat <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/aircraft-program/lilium-jet">Lilium Jet</a> into commercial service will require its senior leadership team to be co-located in Germany, reporting to newly appointed CEO Klaus Roewe.&nbsp;Richardson is based in California.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Lilium recently completed the third of four audits for its application to secure an EASA design organization approval, with the final audit expected to happen during the first half of this year. The approval is an important prerequisite for <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-03-31/lilium-pushes-projected-evtol-aircraft-type-certification-2025">obtaining type certification</a>. The company intends to build a production-conforming prototype this year that will be&nbsp;ready to start flight testing.</span></span></span></p>
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Autonomous eVTOL developer Wisk Aero recently publicly revealed its new sixth-generation aircraft.

Wisk Aero Explains How Its New Four-Seat Autonomous eVTOL Air Taxi Will Work

<p>Autonomous eVTOL developer Wisk Aero today publicly revealed its new sixth-generation aircraft. The company's unpiloted Generation 6 aircraft is designed to carry passengers up to 90 miles, flying at a cruise speed of 120 knots and an altitude between 2,500 feet and 4,000 feet.</p>
<p>The aircraft features 12 propellers, six of which can tilt, which allows the aircraft to take off and land vertically. During cruise, the aircraft transitions to wingborne horizontal flight. Wisk says its batteries will take just 15 minutes to fully recharge.</p>
<p>The California-based company has already flown more than 1,600 test flights with earlier technology demonstrators, mostly with its fifth-generation model called <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/aircraft-program/cora">Cora</a>, which Wisk will continue to fly for research and development purposes while working to certify the Gen 6 aircraft. It has not said when it intends to start flying the first examples of its planned production aircraft, and also has not announced a name for it.</p>
<p>“We're introducing the most technically advanced aircraft and system in this marketplace,” Wisk CEO Gary Gysin told reporters last month during an exclusive preview of the new Gen 6 aircraft. “We think this is going to change transportation.”</p>
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<h3 class="subheading"><strong>From Cora to Gen 6: Design Changes</strong></h3>
<p>Wisk’s Gen 6 aircraft features several design upgrades from its two-seat Cora aircraft. In addition to a more spacious cabin designed to comfortably accommodate twice as many passengers, the Gen 6 also features a raised wing and a longer wingspan of 50 feet, compared to Cora’s 36-foot wing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“By raising the wing, we've increased the aircraft's stability, and that brings more passenger comfort,” said Wisk senior vice president Sebastien Vigneron. “By extending the booms, we've moved the propellers away from the passenger, which improves safety both off the ground and in the air. We've also introduced a new propeller design to improve performance and reduce noise.”</p>
<p>The tail of the Gen 6 aircraft has also been redesigned. While Cora has a boxy, twin-boom tail, the Gen 6 features a simpler cross tail. This reduces the aircraft’s weight and optimizes the location of its center of gravity, which leads to better range and overall performance, Vigneron said.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“We've put a ton of focus on … reducing the number of moving parts because fewer moving parts means fewer points of failure, less wear and tear, more robustness, more reliability, less maintenance, more availability, and ultimately better safety,” Vigneron said.</p>
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<h3 class="subheading"><strong>Wisk’s Air Taxis Flies Autonomously</strong></h3>
<p>Rather than have pilots on board controlling the aircraft, all flight operations will be conducted autonomously with the help of multi-vehicle operators, who will monitor up to three simultaneous flights from a fleet operations center on the ground. In case of an emergency, passengers can press a button inside the aircraft to be connected with remote hospitality personnel. If necessary, a multi-vehicle operator can remotely command the aircraft to divert or land early.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Wisk’s head of autonomy, Jonathan Lovegren, told <strong>FutureFlight</strong> that because all flight routes will be predetermined, the aircraft doesn’t rely on artificial intelligence to fly and navigate. In other words, the aircraft will be programmed to operate under predictable circumstances and to deal with all scenarios and contingencies without having to do any real-time problem-solving using artificial intelligence. Any and all decisions the aircraft makes will be the result of pre-programmed algorithms.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>“Ninety-three percent of the functions on a commercial airliner today are actually performed by a computer, and so autonomy for us is really about taking that a step further,” Lovegren said. “We're starting with those same proven existing technologies—like navigation systems, autopilots, and flight management systems that enable today's commercial flight—and we're adding to that proprietary decision-making logic and algorithms and additional sensing capabilities to create an even more automated system with predictable deterministic outcomes.”</p>
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<h3 class="subheading"><strong>Passenger Experience</strong></h3>
<p>To provide the most optimal customer experience, Wisk has and will continue to conduct in-depth consumer research studies. “We put potential fliers through an ever-evolving lineup of mockups and simulators, both real life and in [virtual reality],’ said Uri Tzarnotzky, director of product design at Wisk. “This approach helps to keep the voice of the customer at the heart of our engineering traits and decisions.”</p>
<p>The aircraft is designed to be accessible for people with disabilities, with room to accommodate wheelchairs and walkers. On each passenger’s personal display screen, safety instructions are offered in multiple languages, including American Sign Language. On-screen text can also be enlarged or bolded for easier reading, and the colors of the display are amenable to most forms of colorblindness, Tzarnotzky said.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Each seat on the Gen 6 has enough headroom and legroom to comfortably fit passengers as tall as about 6 feet 4 inches (2 meters). Tzarnotzky added that Wisk won’t implement a height limit for its passengers, so taller people can still fly on the Gen 6, albeit a little less comfortably. The company will require passengers to self-report their weight and that of their luggage before boarding the aircraft. Larger luggage items will be stored in what the Wisk team calls the “frunk”—a trunk located in the front of the aircraft—while smaller carry-on items, such as backpacks and purses, can be stored safely inside the cabin.&nbsp;</p>
<p>To further enhance the customer experience, Wisk’s aircraft will provide free on-board wifi, multiple charging ports and even wireless charging pads for smartphones. Using the personal touch-screen displays, each passenger can also control some aspects of the cabin’s environment, such as the temperature and lighting. The display will also provide real-time flight information and a map, much like the flight tracking screens provided on many of today’s commercial planes.&nbsp;</p>
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<h3 class="subheading"><strong>Path to Operations</strong></h3>
<p>Wisk may be ahead of the pack when it comes to certifying a fully autonomous eVTOL air taxi, but it likely won’t be the first eVTOL air taxi provider to begin operations. That’s because the autonomous nature of the aircraft makes it more complicated to certify than other eVTOLs that have pilots on board.&nbsp;</p>
<p>While other eVTOL air taxi developers aim to have their piloted fleets up and running from 2024, Wisk’s autonomous aircraft could take several years longer to get certified for commercial operations. The company has not yet announced a timeframe in which it aims to have its self-flying air taxis certified, and Gysin declined to say when the Gen 6 might make attempt its first flight tests.</p>
<p>“This aircraft will be the first-ever candidate for certification of an all electric self-flying, four-seat, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, and we've already made good progress with the FAA,” Vigneron said. He added that Wisk has submitted its G-1 certification basis to the FAA earlier this year, and that Wisk is “heavily engaged” with the FAA on its G-2 issue paper.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Last month, Wisk and its primary investor Boeing jointly published a <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-09-21/boeing-and-wisk-issue-concept-operations-urban-air-mobility">concept of operations</a>. This document spells out a path to introducing uncrewed urban air mobility services in the context of the U.S. National Airspace System.</p>
<p>Wisk Aero was <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2019-12-03/boeing-and-kitty-hawk-launch-evtol-joint-venture-wisk">founded in 2019</a> as a joint venture between Boeing and Google co-founder Larry Page's Kittyhawk, an eVTOL aircraft innovator that recently announced its intent to <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-09-22/kittyhawk-signals-its-imminent-exit-evtol-aircraft-innovation">“wind down” its operations</a>. A Wisk spokesman told <strong>FutureFlight</strong> that Kittyhawk’s closing will not impact Wisk.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Although Wisk itself is only about three years old, the company’s autonomous eVTOL technologies have been under development for more than a decade, dating back to 2011, when a company called Zee Aero flew its first-generation eVTOL technology demonstrator. Zee Aero merged with Kittyhawk in 2018, four years after Zee’s first prototype successfully demonstrated a transition from hover to wingborne flight.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Shortly after the merger, Boeing got involved, and the company has since become Wisk’s biggest investor. Wisk has not revealed exactly how much funding it has raised so far from Boeing and other sources, but earlier this year Boeing announced a <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-01-24/boeing-bets-big-evtols-450-million-funding-wisk-aero">$450 million investment</a> in Wisk.&nbsp;</p>
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