Aircraft program
Principally made of composites with a carbon fibre pilot/passenger cabin.
Two piece windshield with large transparency doors.
It has an automatic height and position control system plus a ballistic recovery parachute.
Fixed, skid type landing gear with wide struts affixed to lower sides of cabin.
18 fixed pitch rotors are mounted on circular framework (7.35 m or 24 ft 1 1/2 in diameter) above the power plant and cabin. Tilting the rotor plane by 15-20 degrees gives forward flight; there is no tail boom or anti torque system.
Fly-by-light flight control achieved through varying speed of individual two blade, fixed pitch rotors: collectively for vertical motion and selectively for directional control.
There are automatic altitude and attitude control, position hold and landing systems as well as continuous data recording.
Sensors include gyroscopes, acceleration, magnetic field measurement, manometers, optional remote control, GPS point tracking, sense and avoid and autonomous sub-features.
The aircraft as engineered: what it is built from, the systems it flies with, and its configuration — each box a theme.
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Subscribe| Variant | Launch / first flight | Production end | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volocopter X2 | 2017 / 2013 | Two-seater optionally piloted eVTOL also known as Volocopter X2, derived from VC200 prototype. Includes successor VoloXPro. | |
| Volocopter VoloCity | 2019 / 2019 | Two-seater, 18 rotor multirotor optionally-piloted eVTOL. |
| Volocopter GmbH | News | |
| Volocopter (Chengdu) Technology Co. LTD. | News | Contract manufacturer in China |
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