The Paris Airshow 2023 kicked off with a bang, with a flurry of announcements and deals that set the tone for the rest of the event. Here’s a roundup of the key highlights from Day 1: Electric VTOL Taxi Race Heats Up The race for electric VTOL supremacy is heating up, with major players like […]
Taxiservices via VTOL vehicles are still rather new. Some services do already exist, so it was just a question of time, until when the first e-Version will be completely market ready. China – the trailblazer for the industry? Since 2022 Volkwagen is already fliying with a passenger drone in the Chinese air space. The “V.MO” […]
It is “personal” because it has a crew capacity of one, only one person who is the pilot of the aircraft. Electric, low noise, capable of reaching a speed of 150 miles per hour, and how it works, it seems to be a fancy vehicle. The inventor, the aerospace engineer Mark Moore idealized the concept […]
As the name stands for a plane that converts, but exactly in what? First of all, the plane needs to take off vertically and landing as well, so it is VTOL (Vertical take-off and landing), specifically using a rotor, and in a normal regime fly like a fixed-wing aircraft. This is a definition from the […]
A Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can hover, take-off and land vertically. This classification includes a variety of aircrafts including fixed-wing aircrafts as well as choppers and other aircrafts with powered rotors. Some VTOL aircraft can operate in other modes as well, such as CTOL (Conventional Take-Off and Landing), STOL (short take-off and landing), or STOVL (Short take-off and Vertical Landing). Others, […]
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