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Transforming Mobility

Between cities, airports and suburbs

We plan to bring the world's first Modular eVTOL Aircraft to market. Join us in our mission to streamline urban mobility with zero operational emissions.

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The Sigma-6 is a flexible 2-phase electric VTOL capable of moving a variety of payloads based on the jobs to be done. This flexibility enables ASX to produce a standard flight module at scale that is simple in design and assembly, yet cost effective and accessible to fleet operators.

Interchangeable Payload

Easily change pods to serve different missions with the same flight module

Swappable Batteries

Instantly recharge or extend range by loading a pod full of charged batteries

Less Downtime

Loading a freshly-charged pod decreases time between flights, improving efficiency

Performance

Total installed power: 1,200 hp
Torque: >7,000 ft lbs
Cruise speed: 125 mph
top cruise speed: 150 mph
Empty Weight: 4,000 lb / 1,814 kg
Max Takeoff weight: 6,000 lb
Low noise: 73 db-a (100ft agl)
Cargo volume: <300 ft3
Hybrid range: 761 miles

dimensions

Length: 28.1 ft (8,560 mm)
Wingspan: 38.7 ft (11,800 mm)
Height: 11.9 ft (3,630 mm)

Performance

Lifting Capacity: > 2,000 lbs
Drive Type: for electric motors
Max Lifting Height: 9 in
Remote/autonomous
Omni-directional
360 rotation
Four-wheel steering
Self-leveling

dimensions

Length: 19.3 ft (5,883 mm)
Width (arms collapsed): 7.2 ft (2195 mm)
Width (arms outboard): 10.5 ft (3,200 mm)
Height: 2.4 ft (732 mm)

CLEAN

The Sigma 6 features an all-electric powertrain, which is operationally emission-free. Hybrid propulsion options will be available using environmentally friendly fuels, or hydrogen fuel cells.

QUIET

Noise is often overlooked when considering emissions, and we believe it is equally important. 

A key requirement for the Sigma 6 is to have a low noise signature. We designed our rotor system to operate with a 0.34 mach tip speed in a hover configuration to ensure the lowest possible noise signature.

CONNECTED

ASX is developing a short-range wireless communication system to facilitate collision avoidance between aircraft. Not only will we be able to prevent mid-air collisions, but our system will sequence and separate traffic to ensure safety for arriving and departing aircraft.

FLEXIBLE

To optimize utilization of our aircraft system, we’ve designed a flight module which is able to plug-and-play a variety of payloads to perform different jobs.

Target industries include cargo, mail, agriculture, defense, firefighting, first response, and ultimately passenger transport.

Interchangeable Payload

Easily change pods to serve different missions with the same light module

Swappable Batteries

Instantly recharge or extend range by loading a pod full of charged batteries

Less Downtime

Time spent between flights is significantly decreased resulting in highly efficient

HOW IT WORKS

A tilt-wing eVTOL aircraft, which features direct-drive electric motors, and a flexible payload bay. A ground skateboard plugs and plays a payload module with fresh batteries, reducing recharging downtime.

SPECIFICATIONS

Sigma-6
Skateboard

Omni-direction four-wheel drive ground vehicle for swapping payloads. Closed-circuit applications include Airports (aircraft towing, passenger shuttling), factories, medical and distribution centers.

Performance

Total installed power: 1,200 hp
Torque: >7,000 ft lbs
Cruise speed: 125 mph
top cruise speed: 150 mph
Empty Weight: 4,000 lb / 1,814 kg
Max Takeoff weight: 6,000 lb
Low noise: 73 db-a (100ft agl)
Cargo volume: <300 ft3
Hybrid range: 761 miles

dimensions

Length: 28.1 ft (8,560 mm)
Wingspan: 38.7 ft (11,800 mm)
Height: 11.9 ft (3,630 mm)

Performance

Lifting Capacity: > 2,000 lbs
Drive Type: for electric motors
Max Lifting Height: 9 in
Remote/autonomous
Omni-directional
360 rotation
Four-wheel steering
Self-leveling

dimensions

Length: 19.3 ft (xxx mm)
Wingspan: 10.5 ft (xxx mm)
Height: 2.4 ft (xxx mm)

First Response

The SIGMA-6 can leverage its flexibility to accelerate timely support, as well as autonomy for handling life-threatening jobs.
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DEFENSE

The SIGMA-6 will contribute to the efforts of our Armed Forces and troops by delivering efficient logistics that put people and mission-critical equipment where they need to be, fast.
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Cargo Mobility

Our mobility system offers the ability to streamline logistics, skip traffic, and 'plug and play' cargo modules designed for different customer needs.
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Jon Rimanelli

ASX Co-Founder and CEO

Jon is an electronics and aerospace entrepreneur with over three decades of experience designing and building complex electronics and robotics in prototype and production quantities. He is an instrument rated seaplane pilot with over 1,000 hours of flight time in a variety of aircraft. His passion for sharing flight led him to establish Airspace Experience Technologies (ASX), a company with a vison of creating electric aircraft designed to be clean, quiet and connected.

Prior to starting his aviation career, Jon founded Nextronix, a contract electronics design and manufacturing company. Jon’s team at Nextronix developed and tested the first Intelligent Transportation System (C-ITS) Antenna in partnership with Motorola. This technology now represents core Intellectual Property for digital airborne traffic management system, employed by ASX.

In 2011, Jon founded Detroit Aircraft Corp, partnering with Lockheed Martin to manufacture and distribute small electric VTOL aircraft for military, civil and commercial use worldwide. Detroit Aircraft has represented several public safety agencies to integrate unmanned aircraft systems in the national airspace system.

In 2017, Jon founded ASX to commercialize large scale eVTOL aircraft. After 6 iterations, ASX began flight testing the Sigma-6 aircraft, in summer 2022.

The Team at ASX

We are an international team of innovators and engineers who have come together to realize a new era of multi-modal transport.

ASX has assembled engineers and scientists committed to the singular vision of reinventing air and ground mobility, suited to the 21st Century needs of consumers, businesses and governments.

Collectively, as a team, we seek transport solutions that address urban mobility and global issues, such as climate change. Our team is also passionate about national security, and ASX believes it can make the US security and our international interests better via more effective and economic transport.

Working in Detroit

ASX operates out of Detroit’s Coleman A. Young International Airport. We are engaged in a public-private-partnership with the City of Detroit, and the airport offers the perfect environment to design, build, test and maintain ASX craft.

Building the Future in Detroit

Detroit will forever be associated with automotive innovation and excellence – the Legendary Motor City. The same spirit of excellence is reflected in the aerospace industry. ASX is set to follow in the footsteps of its forefathers, re-imagining car and aerospace technologies to forge a new future in Detroit.

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