Mission Statement

Quantum Mobility (QM)

Rooted in our real world experience, we offer broad spectrum guidance and management in all aspects of the coming urban air mobility revolution, which is the integration of electric vertical take off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) in the urban space. Our focus spans the hardware, software, operations, and communications needed for best outcomes in housing, labor, education, health, and commerce. Autonomous flying vehicles will change everything, and have the experience to help with those changes.

 

Project and Consulting Areas

Hardware

Quantum Mobility (QM) has designed, built, and flown specialized eVTOL vehicles in multiple states to achieve a variety of goals. With backgrounds and training in material science, aeronautics, and power systems, QM can advise clients on the rewards and risks of fleet purchase, construction, and modification.

 

Software

Developers of the patented GoldN platform, which maps thousands of real-time safe paths through urban skies, and AlchemyRE, which manages both media assets created by drone flys and data about the buildings utilizing these assets, QM can deliver software solutions for a variety of industries in diverse frameworks, and provide help with software selections and customization.

 

Operations

In 2025, QM navigated the vast complexity of the FAA and the NYPD Drone Unit, DOT and DOB, to fly almost weekly missions in the five boroughs, over and around landmarks, infrastructure, bodies of water, crowds, buildings, and construction sites, at maximum heights in narrow time windows. Each fly may take 2-3 months to schedule, permit, and deliver, but we communicate with officials at both the Federal and City level to produce the best possible outcomes. We provide flys for clients, advise them how to do so in their own organizations, and consult on future take-off and landing area design.

 

Communications

QM is highly informed about all aspects of the eVTOL revolution globally. We share our up-to-the-moment knowledge of trends that will affect local implementation, as well as develop our own content, writing white papers for electeds, appointeds, and private businesses. We also create explainer and teaser presentations using our work products, and anticipate being deeply involved with efforts to educate the public about the impacts, safely protocols, and benefits of urban air mobility.

 

Team Leadership

Gordon Eriksen

Principal, Waverly Hicks LLC, Digital Solutions Manager

Gordon Eriksen (Principal), graduate of Harvard in Visual and Environmental Studies, began producing business multimedia and websites in 1995 as a Web Producer at Portogallo Digital. He was an early student of both Lou Rosenfeld (Information Architecture for the World Wide Web - data design) and Jakob Nielson (Nielson/Norman Group - user experience). He was a senior consultant with NYC's Growth Strategy Group before becoming Director of Information Architecture at the Austin-based e-business consultancy EpicEdge, V.P. of User Experience at Synergnic LLC, and Director of the Design Studio at Andrews Consulting Group. He has been flying drones as a cinematographer since 2019.

James Haig

Lt. Col USAF (Ret.), Principal FPV Global LLC

Principal James Haig is a retired USAF officer with 35 years of experience flying military and commercial jet aircraft around the world. Also a flight instructor in the Air Force, he was a member of the Hurricane Hunters, which flys C-130s into the eyes of hurricanes for scientific research.  He is a FAA licensed Part 107 Drone Pilot and all things aviation expert. He holds an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) license and is rated in the Boeing 777, MD-11, C130, and Airbus A300 aircraft. He is a Gulf War Veteran, an Air Force tactician, and has held multiple positions where as chief of air operations he routinely managed $80 million dollar budgets.

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