Manchester, United Kingdom – April 6^th , 2021. Today, Flight Crowd and Varon Vehicles have announced a partnership aimed at positively shaping public perception and acceptance of the future flight industry. Flight Crowd is set to bring their expertise in outreach and educating the general community on the topic of UAM, specifically focusing on the Latin American region. This collaboration will complement Varon Vehicles’ progress of developing their “Infrastructure Networks”, a set of vertiports with virtual lanes over the low altitude city skies connecting them, and fleets of their electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) next generation, “green” aircraft for urban and sub urban use, servicing between them.

“At Flight Crowd we’re committed to advancing the public interest and perception of Urban Air Mobility”, says James Gill, Co-Founder. “In order to do this effectively, we need to develop strong relationships with the key stakeholders in the industry like Varon Vehicles. By doing so we can build a complete picture of the Urban Air Mobility sector, and our sustainable transport future.” Mariya Tarabanovska, Flight Crowd’s Co-Founder adds, “Public perception is still one of the biggest barriers to mass-scale UAM implementation. We wish to help address any fears or uncertainties the community may have when it comes to understanding the benefits that future flight industry may bring to Latin America.”

Varon Vehicles leads a global ecosystem of stakeholders from the Urban Air Mobility community with the goal of integrating the systems and infrastructure into Latin America and they are ahead in their implementation plans in Colombia as a first chosen country. Flight Crowd will continue to bridge the gap between the industry and the public, setting sights more internationally.

“Generating the proper public acceptance is paramount at this stage in our nascent industry, and we have the responsibility to plan for it for the coming years”, says Felipe Varon, CEO of Varon Vehicles. “We need to transmit the correct message to decision makers at many levels, from politicians to zoning officers, from civil aviation authority personnel to communities, about what it is that we’re really doing, why it’s safe and what the values are for socio-economic development. Flight Crowd makes an extremely valuable partner to tackle this purpose as they can bring forth the tools for successful communication and education strategies”.

Flight Crowd is an Urban Air Mobility Community. It aims to both educate and grow the wider public interest in the mobility industry through a variety of programs and projects. Contact James Gill, Co-Founder, james@flight-crowd.com, or Mariya Tarabanovska, Co-Founder, mariya@flight-crowd.com, www.flight-crowd.com.

Varon Vehicles Corporation is a disruptive mobility infrastructure company. It is implementing Urban Air Mobility with the new generation of electric aviation (eVTOLs) to provide radically new urban transportation services. Contact Felipe Varon, CEO, varon.felipe@varonvehicles.com, www.varonvehicles.com.

MONTREAL, QC, March 1^st 2021, Varon Vehicles and Paladin AI have announced today they have signed an MoU to incorporate Paladin AI’s aircraft pilot training capabilities for their fleets of Urban Air Mobility aircraft operators. Varon Vehicles is developing “Infrastructure Networks” which are company’s vertiports connected via virtual lanes over the low altitude city and suburb skies, and fleets of company operated electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) next generation aircraft for urban use, servicing between them. This is part of the next generation in aviation, necessitating an entirely new form of operators which will not be traditional pilots.

“Our aircraft will be an entirely new breed in aviation. They will be electric, highly automated, made for the urban environment, and our operators will need a completely new form of training”, says Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder. “Our collaboration with Paladin AI guarantees that we set the stage correctly to answer questions about the proper training strategies for these new types of operators. They will have much lighter tasks in the air than traditional pilots. Our operators will surely require less training than in traditional commercial aviation, and the process will be simulator intensive. Paladin AI’s proven record in aviation pilot training insures we plan properly for the training of our eVTOL aircraft operators as we enter implementation in the years to come.”

“Urban air mobility is the next frontier. It will fundamentally change the way we live and how we think about our cities. It is important that we leverage 21^st century technologies in our training methods. By the end of this decade, there will tens of thousands of air vehicle operators that will need to be trained.” Says Mikhail Klassen, Chief Technology Officer of Paladin AI. “We’re excited to partner with Varon Vehicles to help accelerate the advent of widespread urban air mobility.”

Paladin AI develops adaptive pilot training software to reduce total instruction time, improve safety outcomes, and drive savings for airlines and training organizations. By using artificial intelligence and operating on the data already being generated by flight simulators, Paladin AI’s software can detect and measure the core competencies that are predictive of proficiency. This allows for personalized training that is tailored to the needs of individual pilots.

 

Varon Vehicles Corporation is a disruptive mobility infrastructure company. It is implementing Urban Air Mobility with the new generation of electric aviation (eVTOLs) to provide radically new urban transportation services. www.varonvehicles.com. Contact Felipe Varon, varon.felipe@varonvehicles.com.

Paladin AI is an educational technology and training analytics company. It is enabling competency-based training in aviation by leveraging the power of data and machine learning. www.paladin.ai. For more information contact info@paladin.ai.

WARREN New Jersey, February 26, 2021 – PS&S Architecture and Engineering, PC, (PS&S) announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the firm and Varon Vehicles Corporation, a disruptive mobility infrastructure company based on a novel Urban Air Mobility (UAM) transportation services concept. Varon Vehicles is developing a unique and revolutionary type of aerial mobility system which it calls Infrastructure Networks, to generate new connectivity for cities without the need for physical per-mile construction.

This association will furnish Varon Vehicles with a collaborative framework utilizing the resources of PS&S’s multi-disciplined, integrated design team of experienced architects, engineers, and environmental scientists for the purpose of offering advisement, planning, conceptual design, site and building design, and other related services for Varon Vehicles’ vertiports requirements. Such vertiports will support Varon Vehicles’ operations in Latin America in a variety of transportation services.

PS&S, founded in 1962, created their Urban Air Mobility Task Force (UAM/TF) in May 2019 initially to pursue design opportunities within the aerial transport industry. Led by PS&S CEO John Sartor, the Task Force is managed by architects Ted Osborne and Jennifer Ganley, who together developed an award winning Vertiport solution at Uber Elevate Summit 2018, and by architect and pilot Charles (Chuck) Clauser, who brings years of aviation knowledge and insights to the Team. He serves on two NASA Transformative Working Group committees, was a panelist on Vertical Flight Society Infrastructure Workshops, and served as panelist on Varon Vehicles’ Skyscraper 2020 Think Tanks. Podcast interviews can be found at www.eVTOLInsights.com.

In addition to a staff comprised of architects, interior designers, and the engineering disciplines of civil, survey, structural, mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, and electrical personnel, the firm maintains strong working relationships with a variety of consultants including aerial infrastructure, heliport designers, acoustical engineering, cost estimating, preconstruction services, and related specialties.

“We are pleased to work with Varon Vehicles as they have developed unique and focused Urban Air Mobility eco-system solutions that will provide much needed community-centered aerial transportation services,” said Sartor. “Our extensive experience, project approach and capabilities will support Varon Vehicles’ vision of creating aerial passenger and cargo services across and within urban centers”

“PS&S’s fully integrated design processes provide us with targeted infrastructure solutions that meet the company’s aesthetic, functional and technical imperatives. We are focused on developing attractive, functional, sustainable, efficient, and cost-effective architecture in our communities that meets the needs and vision of our Urban Air Mobility flight operations”, said Felipe Varon, Founder and CEO of Varon Vehicles. “PS&S’s proven record in the nascent UAM industry and their understanding of urban aviation operations was a major factor in choosing them as a design partner, as we continue to grow our world-class network of partners to provide the highest level of safety and service.” He added: “We see Urban Air Mobility in its entirety as a new form of mobility infrastructure with which we’re focusing on solving urban problems”.

Varon Vehicles is developing this innovative transportation system with enabling technologies from the next generation of aviation and advanced air mobility, using currently untapped airspace. It consists of a series of vertiports connected to each other via well-defined low altitude virtual lanes through which their air vehicles will fly, without adding a burden on Air Traffic Control or mixing with traditional aviation. Varon Vehicles vertiports will be placed both inside and outside existing urban structures to alleviate pressure for city growth, providing transportation services to multiple customers like logistics companies, tourism companies, hospitals, law enforcement, and transportation network companies (TNC’s) for services like air taxi.

 

Contacts

Charles A. Clauser, AIA, PS&S

cclauser@psands.com

www.psands.com

 

Felipe Varon, Varon Vehicles Corp.

varon.felipe@varonvehicles.com

www.varonvehicles.com

Reston, VA, February 16^th, 2021. Varon Vehicles and TruWeather Solutions jointly announced today a strategic collaboration to integrate weather and micro-weather capabilities into Varon Vehicle’s Traffic Management Systems (TMS). Varon Vehicles is designing an inter-connected network of vertiports with on-ramp and off-ramps connected to virtual lanes over the low altitude city skies. Varon Vehicles is leading a consortium of global stakeholders and will fly next generation Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft for urban use to deliver transportation services between their vertiports and integrate with other transportation modes. Varon Vehicles’ blueprint for dynamic Infrastructure Networks is a new form of mobility infrastructure with the potential for demonstrating how to move people and cargo in congested urban environments.

“There are many components involved in our Infrastructure Networks and weather management will play a key role in our operation”, says Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder. “Being able to confidently anticipate and predict micro-weather is crucial for safety and efficiency of our operations. We’re relying on the best systems providers with proven technologies to implement our systems, and we’re really glad to be collaborating with TruWeather Solutions as we develop our novel transportation services.”

“Smart weather infrastructure and micro-weather hazard detect and avoid services for a smooth-running air-based transport system is critical to increase aircraft revenue generation and for clients to feel comfortable knowing that their ride will show up when needed” says Don Berchoff, CEO of TruWeather Solutions. “Building weather resiliency into the transportation system must start in the planning phase to ensure weather resilient placement of vertiports and virtual highways to account for building induced wake turbulence and building induced wind funneling effects. Varon Vehicles is a thought-leader in Urban Air Mobility and understands the importance of urban micro-weather considerations. We are thrilled about our collaboration with Varon Vehicles to demonstrate smart weather infrastructure placement and urban weather strategy as a force-multiplier in executing a predictable and well-functioning TMS.”

TruWeather is leader in Advanced Air Mobility micro-weather solutions and decision systems today.  Their TruFlite V360 micro-weather data and analytic software-as-a-service intelligent weather platform focuses on addressing weather pain points. TruWeather has a government grant to present a framework for optimizing weather sensor placement in urban environments to produce an “MRI” of wind hazards that will impact weather sensitive Advanced Air Mobility operations. TruWeather is focused on identifying and communicating dynamic changes in wind that impacts operational decisions for airspace managers and operators, and the air worthiness of airframes themselves. This future service is designed to keep VTOL air vehicles flying safely while optimizing operations and client satisfaction.

Varon Vehicles Corporation is a disruptive mobility infrastructure company. It is implementing Urban Air Mobility with the next generation of electric aviation (eVTOLs) between their Vertiports to provide radically new transportation services. www.varonvehicles.com. Contact Felipe Varon, varon.felipe@varonvehicles.com.

TruWeather Solutions Inc is a leading provider of weather data analytics and innovative weather risk management products with a focus on low level aviation and ground transportation systems.  Founded on over 35 years’ experience across the aviation, logistics and weather industries, and acknowledged as experts in setting standards for the safe operation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems, the company provides the highest quality insights alongside excellent technical and operational forecasting support services. TruWeather’s customized translation of real-time and predictive weather data into discreet workflow decision insights sharpens resource scheduling, planning and mission execution resulting in safer, more productive operations and business success. www.truweathersolutions.com.  Contact:  Lisa Tinnesz, lisa.tinnesz@truweathersolutions.com.

Varon Vehicles Corporation and its Founder & CEO, Felipe Varon, have been featured in eVTOL Insights’ Power Book 2021, “Recognizing Excellence and Achievement in the Electrical Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft Industry”. It is a great honor for Felipe Varon and the entire Varon Vehicles team to be considered as part of this compendium alongside such reputable leaders and companies from all over the world. It inspires the team to continue working on the hard but exciting development of the nascent Urban Air Mobility industry.

Power Book 2021 is a thorough and interesting read which is recommended for all those who wish to be up to date on the current status of the key players shaping Urban Air Mobility globally. You can download a free copy of Power Book 2021 using the link below.

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Varon Vehicles Corporation launched its first company summit Skyscraper 2020 on November 20th of 2020. It brings together UAM stakeholders from around the world. This Varon Vehicles ecosystem of partner and collaborating companies, universities, entities, governments, civil aviation authorities, investors and individuals present their developments and ideas in Skyscraper 2020 with a focus on their collaboration with Varon Vehicles. The summit showcases ample content about implementation efforts in Latin America with a special place for the case in Colombia where the company has decided to implement its first systems, making it an attractive testbed for its partner companies.

As a result from Skyscraper 2020, many conversations are being currently held and design work has been propelled forward, as Varon Vehicles solidifies partnerships and collaboration entering 2021. Work is currently underway with its partner companies and with the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority to further develop the details of its Infrastructure Networks and implementation details. The company has very interesting plans in its roadmap ahead.

You can attend Skyscraper 2020 and all its content at any time in the Skyscraper section or using the link below.

Varon Vehicles Corporation launched today its first company summit Skyscraper 2020. It brings together UAM stakeholders from around the world to discuss the implementation of Urban Air Mobility in Latin America. This Varon Vehicles ecosystem of partner and collaborating companies, universities, entities, governments, civil aviation authorities, investors and individuals present their developments and ideas with a focus on their collaboration with Varon Vehicles. The summit showcases ample content about implementation efforts in Latin America with a special place for the case in Colombia where the company has decided to implement its first systems, making it an attractive testbed for its partner companies.

 

Skyscraper 2020 will be available from today onwards, permanently. There is no need to register, it has no cost and can be accessed by all people without a schedule, permanently. The company invites all interested people to engage with questions to all presenters, this feature will be available until December 15th 2020.

 

Enter Skyscraper 2020 in the Skyscraper section or using the link below.

Varon Vehicles Corporation: Urban Air Mobility