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Chinese eVTOL Aircraft Directory, Part 2

Chinese eVTOL Aircraft Directory, Part 2

  • 19 Jun 2025 08:40 PM
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The past several issues have covered numerous aspects and developments of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in China. Part 1 of this directory included larger eVTOL aircraft, either three or more passengers or cargo aircraft of 1 metric ton (2,200 lb) or more. Here, Part 2 covers smaller passenger- and cargo-carrying designs.

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Chinese eVTOL Aircraft Directory, Part 1

Chinese eVTOL Aircraft Directory, Part 1

  • 02 May 2025 12:51 AM
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The past several issues have covered numerous aspects and developments of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL)aircraft in China. Here’s a directory of the most advanced developments of larger Chinese aircraft—passenger aircraft with more than two seats and cargo aircraft heavier than 1 metric ton (2,200lb).

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Harmony Advances Quiet Propeller Technology

Harmony Advances Quiet Propeller Technology

  • 28 Apr 2025 09:06 PM
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Vertiflite recently caught up with Moble Benedict, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University and founder of its Advanced Vertical Flight Laboratory (AVFL) with 20 years of experience in VTOL aircraft concepts.

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Sikorsky Innovations: Adding Up to Something Big

Sikorsky Innovations: Adding Up to Something Big

  • 28 Apr 2025 04:06 PM
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Sikorsky leverages additive manufacturing to prove the physics of its Rotor Blown Wing and make production rotorcraft lighter, cheaper and faster.

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eVTOL Leaders Continue

eVTOL Leaders Continue

  • 28 Apr 2025 04:04 PM
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Leading eVTOL companies in the US, UK and Asia continue their developments towards certification. 

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Design Build Vertical Flight 2025

Design Build Vertical Flight 2025

  • 28 Apr 2025 07:00 AM
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The Vertical Flight Society’s fifth annual Design-Build-Vertical Flight (DBVF) Student Competition returned to Churchville, Maryland, this spring with renewed energy, an urgent mission theme and a powerful demonstration of student ingenuity.

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Horizon Bets on Extended Range with Hybrid Cavorite X7

Horizon Bets on Extended Range with Hybrid Cavorite X7

  • 28 Apr 2025 02:49 AM
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Horizon Aircraft is betting that its Cavorite X7’s unique design and better range through hybrid propulsion will provide success in the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) market.

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GoAERO Awards $500,000 to Stage 1 Teams

GoAERO Awards $500,000 to Stage 1 Teams

  • 30 Mar 2025 08:35 AM
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The GoAERO Prize global competition to create emergency response flyers announced on Feb. 11 the award of $100,000 to 11 industry and university teams for their Stage 1 prototype designs, as well as $400,000 to 14 teams at US universities with support from NASA.

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Here Come the Hybrids! VerdeGo Aero Offers Three Hybrid-Electric Products

Here Come the Hybrids! VerdeGo Aero Offers Three Hybrid-Electric Products

  • 25 Mar 2025 08:00 PM
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The founders of VerdeGo Aero have long believed that hybrid-electric propulsion was going to be a key enabling technology for a new generation of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL), electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) and electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft to be commercially successful.

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VerdeGo Aero: The Founders

VerdeGo Aero: The Founders

  • 25 Mar 2025 05:48 PM
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Erik Lindbergh, the grandson of the famed trans-Atlantic aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, helped launch the XPRIZE Foundation in 1996, which offered a cash award for the first team that could build and launch a rocket into space, and do it again in two weeks.

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