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Opener announces the first public manned eVTOL demonstration flights at EAA AirVenture 2021

20/07/2021

Press releaseIssued by Pivotal.

OPENER, a pioneer of electric aerial vehicles for consumer travel, announced the first public manned eVTOL demonstration flights will happen at Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture (EAA) 2021.

OPENER's remarkable BlackFly will be flown and displayed from July 26 through July 31 at EAA AirVenture 2021 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Launched in 2018, BlackFly is the world's first all-electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL), fixed-wing, ultralight aircraft.

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