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TexasUP eVTOL Investor Summit

  • 06 Jan 2020 12:43 PM
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Vertiflite contributor Elan Head was one of a select few journalists to attend TexasUP, held Nov. 19-21, on Ross Perot, Jr.’s Circle T Ranch near Fort Worth, Texas. This third annual summit of investors and developers was organized by JetAviva co-founders Cyrus Sigari and Ben Marcus, who is also the co-founder and chairman of drone traffic management company, AirMap. With about 160 attendees, Sigari estimated that they represented over $100B of investable capital.

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Bell APT 70 Lifts 60 lb

Bell APT 70 Lifts 60 lb

  • 06 Jan 2020 12:40 PM
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On Nov. 18, Bell announced that its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) 70 had conducted additional envelope expansion, with a 60-lb (27.2-kg) payload in tow. 

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Airbus Completes Vahana Testing

Airbus Completes Vahana Testing

  • 05 Jan 2020 12:49 PM
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The Vahana unmanned eVTOL demonstrator made its last flight on Nov. 14. The aircraft completed 138 flights totaling almost 500 nm (925 km) and over 13 hours of flight time at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport in Pendleton, Oregon. Airbus’s Silicon Valley business unit A3 made the first test flight on Jan. 31, 2018. The Vahana is a full-scale prototype, self-piloting, eight-prop tilt wing, all-electric VTOL vehicle. 

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Luminati Creates Vertically Integrated VTOL Development Business

Luminati Creates Vertically Integrated VTOL Development Business

  • 04 Jan 2020 12:51 PM
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In May 2019, Luminati Aerospace exhibited a vintage Gyrodyne XRON-1 Rotorcycle coaxial helicopter at the VFS Forum 75 in Philadelphia equipped with a small electric motor to power the pair of 20-ft (6-m) diameter rotor blades.

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HopFlyt Hops to the Future

HopFlyt Hops to the Future

  • 03 Jan 2020 11:11 AM
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A Maryland startup has combined a 90-year-old aircraft design that was ahead of its time with the latest breakthroughs in composite materials, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and an innovative tilt-wing configuration to develop an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) flying taxi that could navigate high-rise urban landscapes.

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Lilium Goes Its Own Way

Lilium Goes Its Own Way

  • 03 Jan 2020 09:35 AM
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If German electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer Lilium GmbH had a theme song, it might be the Fleetwood Mac classic, “Go Your Own Way.” More than 150 companies worldwide, most of them startups, are pursuing the tantalizing vision of a multibillion-dollar eVTOL market, but Lilium’s aircraft design and business model go in drastically different directions from most of the rest.

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Honeywell Goes “All In” on Urban Air Mobility

Honeywell Goes “All In” on Urban Air Mobility

  • 02 Jan 2020 09:18 PM
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On June 18, 1914, Lawrence Sperry of the Sperry Corporation performed a spectacular demonstration of his new invention, the gyroscopic autopilot, before a crowd assembled on the banks of the Seine River in France. Not content to simply lift his hands off the controls, Sperry actually left his pilot seat and crawled onto the wing of his Curtiss C-2 biplane to display his confidence in the device, launching a new era of automatic flight control.

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Hyundai to Develop Air Taxi Service

  • 02 Jan 2020 07:03 PM
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Chung Euisun, executive vice chairman at Hyundai Motor Group, revealed that the automaker planned to develop an air taxi service. According to the Pulse, Chung said: “Our plan is to introduce UAM vehicles in 2023 and to provide its commercial service in 2029 after ironing out regulation issues.”

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EHang Goes Public

EHang Goes Public

  • 02 Jan 2020 07:01 PM
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On Oct. 30, drone manufacturer and eVTOL developer EHang filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its $100M initial public offering (IPO) on the US Nasdaq stock exchange. The paperwork for the Guangzhou-based company noted that it had delivered 38 “passenger-grade” autonomous aerial vehicle (AAVs) to customers “for testing, training, and demonstration purposes and developed two command-and-control centers for smart city management.”

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NTSB Reports on Aurora PAV Crash

  • 02 Jan 2020 12:52 PM
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In October, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) updated its Aviation Accident Preliminary Report on the June 4 crash of the Aurora Flight Sciences “Pegasus” Passenger Air Vehicle (PAV) demonstrator. The unmanned aircraft (N83AU), sized for two seats, was destroyed on its fifth flight.

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