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Discussion Groups
Join a vibrant community of professionals, innovators, and enthusiasts shaping the future of aviation. VFS discussion groups meet monthly to discuss electric aircraft and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, exploring facets of next-generation aviation and advanced air mobility (AAM).
With hundreds of members in each group, the forums offers a engaging spaces for conversation, networking, collaboration, and team recruiting across the AAM ecosystem. Whether you're focused on safety, energy storage, community integration, design innovation, or flight testing, these free-to-join groups are your monthly gateways to staying informed and connected. Please join us, and help shape the skies of tomorrow!
Electric Aircraft Discussion Groups
In 2014, the Vertical Flight Society (then known as AHS International) held the world's first technical meeting on electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. This first Transformative Vertical Flight (TVF) Workshop brought together leading innovators and visionaries from industry, academia and government. The annual workshops were renamed the VFS Electric VTOL Symposiums in 2019, and remained the largest annual gathering of the eVTOL community.
Founded at the third TVF Workshop in 2017, a community of aerospace professionals that includes technical, regulatory, and business elements have been coming together to support the potential for new forms of air transportation systems, with a focus on systems that embody distributed electric propulsion and vertiport capabilities. This community has been pursuing its interest through what was first known as the TVF Working Groups — and now the Electric Aircraft Discussion Groups — and have been organized around these primary TVF missions identified by participants and organizers of previous TVF workshops:
- Commercial Air Transport — On-demand air taxi, regional scheduled flight service, and cargo distribution and package delivery.
- Public Services — Search and rescue, law enforcement, medevac, emergency, humanitarian and military applications.
Interested in joining one of these discussion groups? Contact Andrew Mearns: andy@multicopter.aero
E-VTOL Flight Test Council
In addition, separate from the Electric Aircraft Discussion Groups, VFS — in conjunction with the Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE) — has hosted the E-VTOL Flight Test Council for discussion on electric and VTOL aircraft since 2020.
The Council also has separate meetings run by the Electric Flight Test Committee and the Automated Flying Qualities Committee. Learn more!
Interested in joining these discussion groups? Contact Al Lawless: sfte@alawless.com
Updated July 6, 2025