"We're essentially nine months away from testing an electric cargo plane, and then from there, we're hopefully a year and a half away from flying passengers on the plane," Louis Saint-Cyr, the president of Surf Air Mobility, stated.
It's particularly special for us because you know, it's in our backyard, right? We've been able to demonstrate this aircraft around the world, and now here's an opportunity for us to do it you know in our backyard,
Archer Aviation expects defense-related sales to become the largest segment of its business, surpassing passenger services in the near term, according to CEO Adam Goldstein.
A question that folks have asked is, how are you going to monetize, and how quickly is that going to happen? I think what this shows is that with direct sales, there is a way to get to scale earlier for lower cost by thinking about distributor partners in given geographies.