Archer Surpasses 400 Test Flights This Year, Achieving Company Milestone Four Months Ahead Of Schedule
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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
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.
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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
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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.
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