Vertical Aerospace Achieves Historic Piloted Thrustborne Transition

Vertical Aerospace Achieves Historic Piloted Thrustborne Transition

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Vertical completes piloted thrustborne transition of eVTOL aircraft

Valo uses a combination of tilting propellers for forward flight and fixed vertical lift units, concentrating complexity in the transition phase

VX-4 achieves piloted transition in pre-Easter sortie - RotorHub International

Vertical Aerospace have announced that the company’s VX-4 development aircraft has achieved piloted thrust to wing born transition flight in a sortie that took place on 2 April at the company’s Kemble test facility. Making it the third of the big name eVTOL developers to achieve the milestone. At the same time, it is the first eVTOL to do so under the aegis of the UK CAA and EASA which have a more stringent certification standard than the FAA. D…

U.K.’s eVTOL Air Taxi Leader Just Hit a Major Flight Test Milestone

The U.K.’s leading developer of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is showing that its air taxi concept is not just science fiction. Last week, Vertical Aerospace completed a piloted transition from hover to forward flight using a full-scale aircraft prototype, the company said Monday. The test demonstrated one half of the core capability of eVTOL models—vertical takeoff with propellers, acceleration to wingborne flight, and …

Vertical Aerospace announces piloted thrust-borne transition in its eVTOL flight test programme

Vertical Aerospace today announced it has achieved piloted thrust-borne transition, taking off vertically like a helicopter and transitioning seamlessly into wingborne flight like a fixed-wing aircraft. “This marks a first for a piloted, full-scale eVTOL aircraft of this class operating under the oversight of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which is working in close collaboration with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) toward