Who we are
Bee Fleet is an aerospace startup company founded by aerospace engineers each with solid experience in some of the most important aerospace and tech companies in the market.
Bee Fleet is actively looking for funding to kick-off its vertical take off and landing (VTOL) vehicle project for the regional air mobility service.
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The Challenge
(1) Currently 1.6% of all trips between 50 to 500 miles are taken by air and 0.6% of US airports currently support 70% of domestic air travel.
(2) Big US cities are topping their capabilities to provide opportunities for an increasing population.
(3) Transportation infrastructure is inefficient, old, and has high maintenance costs. Also population is settling in faraway locations from big cities not covered by the current public transportation network.
(4) Levels of GHG emissions are alarming and the world, just recently, became sick by the COVID-19 pandemic with global economic impacts.
The latter is influencing people’s behavior to change and we need to understand how.
(5) Communities want community-compatible vehicles operating in their domestic airports: with low noise and less to no-emissions.
The world is in a continuous flow of changes accelerated by the latest developments in all fields of science and technology.
Enabling technologies are available to support the kick-off of the regional air mobility service segment.
The Solution
The solution is aligned with customer’s needs and wants.
A set of benefits as lowering carbon emissions, and therefore being environmentally mindful of our responsibilities to the world’s health, lowering the noise generated within cities to healthy levels, offering better performance than current transport solutions, and lowering operational costs are the answers in alignment with the perceived needs.
Bee Fleet converged all those benefits into a future product coined as Q‑Bee.
Q‑Bee is a hybrid-powered “vertical take-off and landing” (hVTOL) vehicle with future autonomous capabilities. (See artistic concept below)
Its cabin can be configured for 1+4 or 1+6 passengers or a payload of 1500 lb. This flexibility allows its platform to be applied in different segments or types of missions, from transporting people to things.


Q‑Bee’s benefits
- Q‑Bee lowers emissions because it has a hybrid power generation system
- It lowers noise, because it is electric
- It offers cabin comfort because of its size
- It allows for regional integration
- It lowers operational costs and saves time because of its performance
- It allows a varied type of applications due to its reconfigurable cabin
The Opportunities
Business Analysists from different companies agree on the high growth potential of the advanced air mobility market.
(1) Porsche Consulting forecasts a TAM of $230 Billion by 2035 in its 2017’s report “The future of Vertical Mobility”

(2) Roland Berger estimates revenues for UAM of $90 Billion by 2050 in its 2020’s report “Focus: Urban Air Mobility”. Note that even though this focus on UAM, still indicates a high growth potential expected to spill over into the regional air mobility segment as well.

(3) Morgan Stanley estimates a total addressable market of $9 Trillion in its 2021’s report “eVTOL/Urban Air Mobility TAM update: A slow take-Off, but sky’s is the limit”. We inferred a $1 Trillion of TAM for transportation of goods and people by 2040.

(4) NASA in its 2021’s report on “Regional Air Mobility” Explains the opportunity for the development of the regional air mobility segment considering an unused existing infra-structure of 5050 available local/domestic airports. It also lists a series of requirements to make it possible for the development of this segment. Low-emissions, low-noise, and low-operational costs are the main targets for any vehicle project that wants to explore this new market.

How?
Bee Fleet is building a team of multidisciplinary skilled engineers from the US, Brazil, and abroad with an average experience of more than 15 years who worked for a number of different aircraft development programs in several airplane manufacturers and suppliers companies like Gulfstream, Boeing, Bell, Embraer, Bombardier, and Airbus.
Bee Fleet has offices in the US and in Brazil. The Q‑Bee project will be developed in both locations with the first certification from the FAA.
When?
Bee Fleet will start the design phase shortly and plans to enter into service six years after.
Bee Fleet will be hiring for its US and Brazilian offices.
UAM vs RAM?
The urban air mobility and regional air mobility are two different market segments that differ in the technology solutions adopted and demographics targeted. The video in the link provided explain how each technology enables the business models each segment adopts and indicates the possibility of collaboration to offer an end-to-end solution. Self-driving cars can also be part of this mix for the last mile within the urban ecosystem.
From the above it is easy to conclude that the solutions to each one do not compete. Therefore:
- Companies developing product and services for UAM compete amongst themselves and small helicopters.
- Companies developing products and services for RAM compete against mid-size helicopters.
Q‑Bee has the competitive advantages to position itself as the platform for the development of the regional air mobility segment since it meets the following requirements:
- Better performance: speed and range
- Lower operational costs
- Community-friendly compliant

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