Legacy Aviation's New Best Friend

UP.Summit features outlandish designs alongside traditional aircraft.

Jack Daleo

Friday, February 14, 2025 at 09:00 AM ET

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Archer Aviation’s Midnight eVTOL air taxi sits on display at the 2024 UP.Summit. [Courtesy: Jack Daleo]

Key Takeaways:

The UP.Summit, hosted by the Walton family, brought together leaders and innovators to showcase Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) designs, including electric, hydrogen, and VTOL aircraft.
UP.Labs, a venture lab, emphasizes that AAM is a complementary force for aviation, actively fostering its development by creating startups that align large companies with entrepreneurs to solve industry-wide problems.
AAM is projected to revitalize general aviation (GA) by bringing quieter, more cost-effective air traffic ("cheap volume") to struggling airports, helping to keep them open and stimulating new infrastructure around them.

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Spaceships, jetpacks, electric, hydrogen, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicles, and more fantastical aircraft took center stage at the UP.Summit in October, hosted by Walmart moguls the Walton family.

The annual gathering—which alternates between Bentonville, Arkansas, and Dallas—brought together some 300 movers and shakers in the transportation industry, including manufacturers of the outlandish.