**Description**
Certification of never before seen eVTOL taxi type systems is proving to be extremely expensive, time consuming, and may very well delay maturation of AAM ecosystem. Also, eVTOL takeoff and landing noise levels remain a concern for AAM's community acceptance. Additionally, no known eVTOL system is capable of accessing or driving on the automotive highway system, thus limiting their utility/mobility. The viable alternatives are eSTOL type systems. As a personal air vehicle (PAV), we have designed a proprietary type of parawing system that would catagorized as a Light Sport Aircraft (LSA). One propeller, lateral takeoff; extremely quiet. It's a fly/drive LSA with ASTM certification that is much faster and less expensive to bring to market vs. eVTOL. Except for vertical takeoff and landings, eSTOL performance vastly superior in all other phases. We also have a faster, heavier canard fixed-wing Part 23 flying motorcycle PAV for on-demand regional air mobility. For Part 135 public transport service we have larger multi-passenger Part 25 eSTOL designs, not featured on our website for The Flying Motorcycle Company . Addtionally, we have designed a dedicate family of air-cargo transport aircraft with XSTOL paerformance intended for the AAM ecosystem. Visit Trans Air Systems website.

**Author(s) - ranked in descending order of contribution / as it should appear when published**
Thomas McNally



**Description**
Certification of never before seen eVTOL taxi type systems is proving to be extremely expensive, time consuming, and may very well delay maturation of AAM ecosystem. Also, eVTOL takeoff and landing noise levels remain a concern for AAM's community acceptance. Additionally, no known eVTOL system is capable of accessing or driving on the automotive highway system, thus limiting their utility/mobility. The viable alternatives are eSTOL type systems. As a personal air vehicle (PAV), we have designed a proprietary type of parawing system that would catagorized as a Light Sport Aircraft (LSA). One propeller, lateral takeoff; extremely quiet. It's a fly/drive LSA with ASTM certification that is much faster and less expensive to bring to market vs. eVTOL. Except for vertical takeoff and landings, eSTOL performance vastly superior in all other phases. We also have a faster, heavier canard fixed-wing Part 23 flying motorcycle PAV for on-demand regional air mobility. For Part 135 public transport service we have larger multi-passenger Part 25 eSTOL designs, not featured on our website for [The Flying Motorcycle Company](http://www.flyingmotorcyclecompany.com) . Addtionally, we have designed a dedicate family of air-cargo transport aircraft with XSTOL paerformance intended for the AAM ecosystem. Visit [Trans Air Systems website](http://www.transairsystems.com).

**Author(s) - ranked in descending order of contribution / as it should appear when published**
Thomas McNally



Advantages of Parawing and Fixed Wing Type eSTOL Vehicle Systems vs. eVTOL for AAM Ecosystem

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