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Leading UK eVTOL company Vertical Aerospace has suffered an expensive-looking setback just weeks into its off-tether flight test program. Its VX4 air taxi prototype reportedly hit the deck from about 20 ft up, snapping a wing and making quite a mess.Co… Continue reading Second high-profile test flight crash rocks eVTOL industry
UK-based Vertical Aerospace has started flight-testing its full-size electric air taxi, but is now targeting a 2026 debut. The tilt-rotor VX4 eVTOL seats up to five, and promises more than 100 miles (160 km) of range, at speeds up to 200 mph (322 km/h)… Continue reading Vertical Aerospace starts eVTOL flight tests, but pushes back dates
UK company Vertical Aerospace has celebrated the first flight of its spectacular full-scale VX4 eVTOL air taxi prototype, demonstrating its faith in the design by taking the unusual step of putting a pilot on board. It’s due to enter service in 2025.Co… Continue reading Vertical Aerospace begins eVTOL flight tests, with a pilot on board
Vertical Aerospace, operating out of Bristol, England, has announced more pre-sales than anyone else in the eVTOL industry – more than 1,350 aircraft to date, or US$5.4 billion dollars’ worth, and believes it will be one of the first companies to achie… Continue reading Vertical Aerospace targets 2024 certification on back of record pre-sales
UK company Vertical Aerospace (VA) is going public through a SPAC, with backing from Microsoft, American Airlines, Avolon, Honeywell and Rolls-Royce and a bulging US$4 billion-dollar preorder book for as many as 1,000 of its VA-X4 eVTOL air taxis.Conti… Continue reading Vertical Aerospace goes public, boasting record eVTOL pre-sales
Last week, British company Vertical Aerospace unveiled a new electric VTOL air taxi design, moving out of the realms of simple multicopters and into the efficient, complex, longer-range world of tilt-rotor aircraft.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, T… Continue reading Vertical Aerospace’s Tim Williams on the new VA-1X air taxi
Moving on from the squat, chunky Seraph and its basic manned multirotor design, Britain’s Vertical Aerospace has released designs for an upcoming five-seat tilt rotor air taxi it’s calling the VA-1X that can take advantage of efficient winged flight.Co… Continue reading Vertical Aerospace joins the tilt-rotor race with new VA-1X eVTOL