Electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) aircraft are anything but conventional, but include many of the same challenges as electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, most especially, of course, with the power systems.
Jaunt Air Mobility is an oddball in the sea of 350-plus electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft concepts catalogued on the VFS World eVTOL Aircraft Directory (www.eVTOL.news/aircraft). It is one of the only electric gyrodyne aircraft being developed for the urban air mobility (UAM) market, and many of those who understand autorotative rotorcraft are impressed.
When flight tests of a heavy-lift helicopter revealed undesirable vibration, coupled computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational structural dynamics (CSD) tools helped model and fix the problem. Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc. (ART) in Sunnyvale, California, has built its business developing software tools that create comprehensive models for rotorcraft engineers, support flight testing and improve flight simulators.
At the Association of the United States Army’s (AUSA) virtual trade show in mid-October, Bell revealed that it is working on a larger variant of its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT).
According to eVTOL.com Hari Venkitaraman, a student at Cranfield University, posted a video on Reddit of a large-scale electric tiltwing testbed at Cranfield Airport on Oct. 13.
Brazilian aerospace giant Embraer announced on Oct. 15 that it was spinning out Eve Urban Air Mobility Solutions, Inc. from its Melbourne, Florida-based EmbraerX subsidiary.
Kitty Hawk released a 14-minute video on Oct. 14, chronicling the 10-year achievements of the company.
On Sept. 29, Sabrewing Aircraft Company announced an exclusive representation agreement with Arabian Development & Marketing Co., headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Newly founded Eco Helicopters announced plans to start an on-demand UAM service in early 2021.
Volocopter GmbH held a roll-out ceremony of its first VoloCity production aircraft on Sept. 30 at its Bruchsal, Germany, facility.
