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Monégasque aerial photography and drone show company McClic has successfully test-flown its MC One personal eVTOL, a simple but nice-looking coaxial octacopter with a pilot’s seat on top. Anyone can fly it, given about 10 minutes’ training.Continue Rea… Continue reading MC One personal eVTOL rocks a Monaco-grade price tag
Six months after revealing its production eVTOL air taxi design, Archer Aviation has shown off its first functional Midnight aircraft, with flight tests set to begin in the coming months – and manufacturing has already begun on a conforming prototype.C… Continue reading Archer’s first Midnight eVTOL is built and ready to fly
Fresh video shows that one of the most fascinating eVTOL aircraft designs we’ve seen is now flying at larger scale. The Transwing platform uses a unique dihedral folding wing system to move between hover and cruise modes, unlocking huge advantages.Cont… Continue reading Pterodyamics scales up its remarkable dihedral Transwing eVTOL
Lithium batteries started an avalanche of innovation when they became widely available, largely because they could hold significantly more energy by weight than other contemporary chemistries. Touchscreen smartphones, drones, all-day laptops, long-rang… Continue reading CATL launches ultra-high density 500-Wh/kg “condensed battery”
Beta Technologies has announced plans to take its CX300 electric aircraft, a fixed-wing version of the Alia eVTOL unveiled in 2020, through the certification process and into production for regional medical, cargo, defense and passenger applications.Co… Continue reading Fixed-wing electric plane clocks up 22,000 miles on flight to production
It’s our first look at the new aircraft, styled by auto-design guru Frank Stephenson – and it appears to run a notably different airframe than the prototypes the company has previously shown in cruise transition testing.
Tags: Autoflight, eVTOL, Air Taxis, World Records, World’s Longest, Electric Aircraft
Continue reading Autoflight breaks Joby’s world record for the longest eVTOL flight
Following more than 350 test flights and two demonstration races of its remotely piloted Airspeeder Mk3 eVTOL, Alauda Aeronautics has revealed the design for the first crewed racer – which boasts a top speed of 360 km/h and a range of 300 km.Continue R… Continue reading Airspeeder prepares for crewed eVTOL racing with Mk4 design reveal
The eVTOL space as a whole is definitely starting to look distinctly grown-up in 2023, transitioning from the crazy rush of concepts and ideas a few years ago into a broadly careful, measured and sensible sort of sector that’s going through the exhaust… Continue reading Long-range, box-wing eVTOL prototype begins flight testing down under
Remember the Terrafugia Transition flying car, out of Massachusetts? Terrafugia was acquired by Chinese giant Geely in 2017, after which it pivoted to designing transitioning eVTOLs, and then was more or less shut down and relocated to China in 2021. G… Continue reading Geely begins testing the largest eVTOL prototype ever flown in China
Transitioning electric VTOL aircraft designs have been everywhere for the last few years, but the majority are either simple lift and cruise designs, with separate horizontal and vertical thrust systems, or vectored-thrust designs that tilt their propu… Continue reading Modular eVTOL prototype shows off swappable pods and ground robot