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Transformative Vertical Flight Working Groups

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TVF Workshops and Working Groups

In 2014, the Vertical Flight Society began leading a series of workshops — initially with NASA, AIAA and SAE as well — on Transformative Vertical Flight (TVF), and built a community of aerospace professionals that included technical, regulatory and business elements, exploring the potential for new forms of air transportation systems with innovative propulsion systems. The focus has been on systems that embody combinations of on-demand, electric and hybrid-electric propulsion, and vertiport-capable configurations and designs.

The third workshop in 2016, collocated with the SAE AeroTech, built on the work of the previous two by soliciting expert opinions from the participants on the work and timeframes needed to transform air transportation consistent with the TVF vision. These inputs served as a starting point for the development of an advocacy roadmap needed to generate support for TVF transportation systems, technology, and markets. The TVF roadmap continued to be advanced, but required further refinement and vetting before it could be a credible advocacy tool. To accomplish this, VFS created small, focused TVF Working Groups, to enable volunteers to join and contribute in their areas of expertise.

Since 2018, originally with the NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI), VFS has been leading several joint TVF Working Groups:

In 2019, NASA formed what are now known as its Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Ecosystems Working Groups, bringing together the community to advance AAM. VFS supported these working groups as well until their conclusion in 2023.