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In the first phase of its commercial use, V.MO is likely to be pitched as a premium product for high-net worth tech savvy Chinese customers, for example for VIP air shuttle services.
Further involvement in RWUAS will see Yeovil expand and become the UK's hub for uncrewed military VTOL aircraft, Leonardo hopes. This latest contract will see 100 staff employed on the Proteus prototype.
The electromechanical actuators for Vertical’s VX4 electric aircraft will provide tilt and pitch control for the four forward propellers, and aerodynamic control surface actuation on the wing and V-tail.
The airframe has been re-engineered to reduce drag, with such changes as replacing the external pilot entry step with a foldable ladder, and adding flaptrack covers on the wing and wheel fairings to the landing gear.
Ampaire conducted the first Eco Caravan hybrid powertrain ground runs in April, with plans to fly the aircraft in the second half of the year. The target for STC approval is 2024.
Eleven contenders had until June 30 to complete Phase 1 of the AFWERX High Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing Challenge. Horizon, for one, hopes to continue testing and designing a full-scale aircraft.
With the first units landing in 2023, Dronamics and Quickstep's long-term plan targets the ramp-up of production of hundreds of Black Swan cargo drones annually in the next four years.
Engineers at BAE Systems in the north of England are leading the design, test, evaluation and build, bringing together digital engineering technologies such as synthetic modelling and model-based systems engineering.
The company will pursue new use cases for Boom's Overture to support government and military operations that require rapid response, including reconnaissance, command and control, and mobility and logistics.
Vertical says it reviewed the capabilities of dozens of cell manufacturers before selecting Molicel as its battery partner as it believes Molicel is uniquely placed to meet the performance and safety requirements of the VX4
The G800 can fly 8,000 nautical miles at Mach 0.85, thanks to the combination of the Gulfstream-designed, high-speed wing and all-new Rolls-Royce Pearl 700 engines. It is the company's eighth new aircraft in ten years.
As testing progresses, the flight envelope will be expanded with increasing climb and descent rates, and airspeeds. Archer plans to continue to conduct multiple flight tests weekly in the second half of this year.
Since 2012 Boeing has tested 200 ecoDemonstrator technologies, and a third have it made it into products and services, contributing to improvements in noise, economy, emissions, safety and environmental impact.
