
A VTOL AirVenture
- 28 Aug 2023 04:48 PM
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This year’s AirVenture had more vertical flight content than ever before.
This year’s AirVenture had more vertical flight content than ever before.
Archer is likely to be among the finalists in the race to provide electric-powered aircraft for civil and military sectors.
In a multi-day event on Aug. 1–3, officials from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) assured attendees that the agency would be ready for the introduction of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and other types of advanced air mobility (AAM) vehicles.
ASKA conducted a series of tethered flight tests with its A5 eVTOL aircraft.
Transcend Air is developing an evolution of its Vy 400 turbine-powered VTOL aircraft, the Vy 421, the company revealed in early August.
Limosa, the Quebec, Canada-based eVTOL developer, unveiled the LimoConnect V2 on July 22 in a presentation at the VFS Electric Aircraft Symposium in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (see “Electric Aircraft Symposium Highlights AAM Progress,” Vertiflite, Sept/Oct 2023).
AutoFlight conducted a test flight involving three prototypes of its Prosperity I eVTOL aircraft, the China-based company formally announced on July 27 (though it was briefed at the VFS Electric Aircraft Symposium, see “Electric Aircraft Symposium Highlights AAM Progress,” Vertiflite, Sept/Oct 2023).
Inpixon, a California-based company specializing in real-time location systems, announced in a July 25 press release that it had entered into a definitive merger agreement with XTI Aircraft Company, a Colorado-based firm that is developing the hybrid-electric TriFan 600 VTOL aircraft.
On July 21, SkyDrive announced that it had received a preorder for up to 100 SkyDrive eVTOL aircraft from Vietnam’s CT UAV JSC.
Ampaire announced on July 20 that it had acquired all of the assets of eVTOL developer Talyn Air.