To Transform Transportation Vertical Aerospace Partners with Honeywell QUICK FACTS

VERTICAL AEROSPACE PARTNERS WITH HONEYWELL TO TRANSFORM TRANSPORTATION Honeywell’s flight systems are helping make urban air mobility (UAM) a reality.

Case Study MICHAEL CERVENKA, CEO, VERTICAL AEROSPACE LTD. “Urban air mobility represents the biggest disruption aviation has seen since the dawn of the jet age in the 1960s. The combination of Honeywell’s compact fly-by-wire control systems and electrification is opening up a whole new opportunity for transportation.” OVERVIEW Founded in 2016 by Stephen Fitzpatrick, who runs the carbon-kicking energy supplier OVO, Vertical Aerospace is a British manufacturer of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. With a vision towards easing urban congestion and decarbonizing air travel, Vertical Aerospace is using the best technology from the aviation, energy and automotive industries to revolutionize how people fly.

Making air travel personal, on-demand and carbon-free requires partners with the know-how and can-do attitude to realize the future. Vertical Aerospace partnered with Honeywell Aerospace for its Compact Fly-By-Wire system, and its ability to achieve the standards and safety integrity levels required to certify aircraft for commercial use.

Since its inception in 2016, Vertical Aerospace has grown to more than 110 world-class engineers and technical experts. The company will fly its first passenger model in 2021, and hopes to certify a vehicle by late 2023 or early 2024.

BACKGROUND Energy entrepreneur Stephen Fitzpatrick “We want something that actually “In the technology we’re developing, got the idea for Vertical Aerospace can make a real impact on society,” the pilot really isn’t flying the vehicle,” when he was stuck in traffic one day. says Michael Cervenka, CEO at Cervenka says. “Instead, he’s telling Thinking that there had to be a better Vertical Aerospace. “For me, [that a series of computers what he wants way to get around, he decided to disrupt means] having a vehicle that is really the vehicle to do, where to go and what aviation by combining the pace and easy to fly and really easy to operate.” to avoid. The computer actually agility of auto racing with the rigor and controls all of the different systems safety-first culture of aerospace. To remove responsibility from the pilot – on the vehicle to make the pilot’s and to ultimately create a completely directions happen reliably and safely.” Vertical Aerospace was born in autonomous flying vehicle – company 2016, with the idea of producing executives knew they had to find a fly- Because fly-by-wire is a critical ingredient fully-electric aircraft for urban by-wire system – a system that replaces in the success of Vertical Aerospace’s environments to reduce ground manual flight controls with an electronic enterprise, company executives congestion and create a foundation interface – that was lightweight searched far and wide to find the right for the decarbonization of aviation. and technologically advanced. system. “We looked at all the different potential suppliers in the market,” recalls Cervenka. “We did extensive due diligence before selecting Honeywell.”

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Customer Customer Results Why Honeywell • Name: Vertical Aerospace Ltd. • Safety – Redundant • Outstanding reliability • Location: Bristol, United Kingdom systems smoothly adapt to and industry expertise changing conditions • Industry: Aerospace • Utilizes the latest in electronic • Website: vertical-aerospace.com • Stability – Automatically adjusts processing technology to for turbulence and winds, provide safety and enhance the Honeywell Installed Solution increasing passenger comfort and performance of UAM platforms ensuring precise takeoffs, cruise • Compact Fly-By-Wire Control System • Condensed Fly-By-Wire Control performance and landings System is lightweight and small, • Vehicle Management enabling greater design flexibility System / Avionics

SOLUTION “We were particularly impressed with According to Terry, “We’ve moved into the technology Honeywell already has, working with Honeywell on controllers as well as the kind of forward thinking because they bring some fantastic about how they’re going to upgrade expertise there. We’re also looking and keep their products competitive,” at them for the wider avionics suite Cervenka says. Vic Terry, Head of Digital and our display systems, and I hope Systems at Vertical Aerospace, says that moving forward that Honeywell seeing the pipeline of products to come can bring some good technology from Honeywell Aerospace, not just to the autonomy piece as well.” in the fly-by-wire but also in adjacent Vertical Aerospace is also relying on products, was when Vertical Aerospace Honeywell Aerospace for help meeting knew that Honeywell Aerospace was new eVTOL regulations established by going to be a really good partner. the European Union Aviation Safety Terry has also been impressed with Agency (EASA). “The regulations set a the Honeywell Aerospace solution for really high bar at ten to the minus nine, being small enough to place around which is what commercial transport the aircraft very easily. “The fly-by- currently works at,” Terry says. “I really wire is the brains of the aircraft,” he believe that this is where we should says. “It’s a nontrivial task to integrate be heading as an industry, so people the components into the full system can trust these aircraft to deliver them and make it work. Honeywell is working where they need to get to safely.” really closely with us and knocking down challenges as they come up.”

The rapport between the two teams has opened up new opportunities beyond fly-by-wire.

To Transform Transportation Vertical Aerospace Partners with Honeywell. | aerospace.honeywell.com | 4 BENEFITS Knowing that partnerships are critical Honeywell gives us a real opportunity to to its success, the Vertical Aerospace significantly speed up the development team couldn’t be happier with its cycle, de-risk the flight test program, Honeywell Aerospace relationship. “The and ultimately bring in things like F35 things we looked for in a partner were flight control technology to enable these the ability to hit aggressive weight, vehicles to be really, really simple to fly.” cost and safety targets,” Cervenka With big dreams of transforming says. “Honeywell’s really stood out for transportation as we know it, Cervenka me in hitting all of those criteria.” and his team know they’re getting closer Cervenka says that Vertical Aerospace’s to their goals with Honeywell Aerospace. partnership with Honeywell Aerospace He credits Honeywell Aerospace with has been a key differentiator in terms giving Vertical Aerospace “a system that of providing a rapid route to market at is significantly lighter and cheaper than scale. “By bringing in the best possible you’d see on a conventional aircraft technologies and the best minds, that will ultimately deliver the same levels of safety and reliability you’d expect on a big commercial vehicle.”