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Quantum XYZ Will Test Using Electric Fixed-Wing Aircraft for L.A.-Based Air Taxi Service



 
 
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Default Quantum XYZ Will Test Using Electric Fixed-Wing Aircraft for L.A.-Based Air Taxi Service



This seems like a very appropriate role for today's electric aircraft:


https://www.aviationtoday.com/2020/0...-taxi-service/

Quantum XYZ Will Test Using Electric Fixed-Wing Aircraft for L.A.-Based Air
Taxi Service

By Brian Garrett-Glaser | April 14, 2020


Bye Aerospace:
https://www.aviationtoday.com/?s=&facets[taxonomy_post_tag][]=bye+aerospace
electric aircraf:
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Quantum XYZ:
https://www.aviationtoday.com/?s=&facets[taxonomy_post_tag][]=quantum+xyz

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Quantum XYZ is planning to launch a mostly-electric commercial airline in
the Los Angeles, California area in 2021, using a number of eFlyer aircraft,
such as the single engine eFlyer pictured here, from Bye Aerospace before
eventually adding eVTOLs. Photo: Bye Aerospace.

Quantum XYZ is planning to launch a mostly-electric commercial airline in
the Los Angeles, California area in 2021, linking LAX to other regional
airports to serve intra-city travelers. The company has made purchase
deposits with Bye Aerospace for at least 24 of their two- and four-seat
conventional takeoff eFlyer aircraft, as well as $2 million in purchase
orders with WorkHorse for its SureFly hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft,
according to eVTOL.com.

Quantum Air, the group’s airline subsidiary, also began procuring a Part 135
operating certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration more than
five years ago.

The global coronavirus outbreak is likely to disrupt Quantum’s timeline; the
eFlyer 2, which Bye Aerospace previously expected would achieve
certification in late 2021, will likely be delayed.

“The Bye Aerospace team of engineers and [designated engineering
representative] DERs is working hard with the FAA, and the certification
effort continues to make solid progress,” a representative for the company
told Avionics International. “It is too early to determine the depth of the
virus-related impacts; certainly one quarter, or perhaps two quarters
schedule delay.”

According to Bye’s website, its employees are fully remote at this time,
meaning flight tests are almost certainly suspended. California and UK-based
ZeroAvia, which is developing six- and 19-seat hydrogen-powered electric
aircraft, told Avionics last week on the Connected Aircraft Podcast it had
suspended flight testing as well.

The company hopes to receive its production certificate “nearly simultaneous
with eFlyer 2 type certification” and produce 50 eFLyer 2’s in the following
12 months at its facility at Centennial Airport, south of Denver, Colorado.

Bye’s primary intention with its eFlyer project is to address to coming
pilot shortage by providing training aircraft with drastically lower
operating cost than legacy options; the company estimates the eFlyer 2 will
cost $23 per flight hour, compared to $110 per hour for the Cessna 172.

“Bye Aerospace has surpassed 300 paid purchase deposits for both the eFlyer
2 and the eFlyer 4,” said George E. Bye, CEO of Bye Aerospace. Those
deposits are not refundable, the company clarified to Avionics. George Bye
is also on Quantum XYZ’s board of advisors.


The Quantum XYZ team, including co-founders Tony Thompson, Zeeshan Moha,
Napp Da and Scott Akina. Photo: Quantum XYZ

In an interview with eVTOL.com, Quantum CEO Tony Thompson said the company
is open to working with Uber, which plans to begin commercial eVTOL
operations in LA in 2023, but “our strategy does not depend on what Uber
does … and one of the big reasons why is [because] Uber is just not
considering fixed-wing whatsoever.”

Quantum XYZ believes it can use these aircraft for regional air taxi
services as well, saving travelers travel time in the highly-congested LA
area, but — depending on customers’ final destinations — that may prove
difficult to do with conventional aircraft, departing and landing at
airports rather than rooftops. Current and former members of Uber’s Elevate
team have stressed to Avionics the difficulty of building efficient
multi-modal transit systems and minimizing time spend not in flight, based
on their modeling and experience with Uber Copter.

On its website, Quantum XYZ declares itself the “1st VTOL Airline,” despite
the existence of many helicopter airlines in prior decades and the fact that
Bye Aerospace’s eFlyers are not VTOL. Quantum declined to elaborate on its
purchases, its plans or provide clarifying information in response to an
inquiry from Avionics.
 




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