Vertical Aerospace Starts Next Stage of Flight Testing For Its VX4 eVTOL Aircraft – FutureFlight
The UK company has been working hard with leading aerospace partners including Honeywell, GKN and Leonardo to develop a four-passenger eVTOL aircraft that could operate on routes of up to around 100 miles. It recently started test flights with a second prototype that features more advanced technology as it prepares to deliver the aircraft to operators such as Virgin Atlantic, American Airlines, Japan Airlines, and Bristow.
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Embraer will be much safer. Much less moving parts.
it has a lot of dead weight in the aircraft that needs to be re-calculated
Just another big drone
Nice marketing talk and video. Have you yet seen it flying – even thethered – in a video longer than one second ?
How well does it do in freezing precipitation?
Glorified helicopter but double the price.
它是不是最先进的，需要用时间来验证。说不定东南亚有超音速技术。
螺旋桨技术无论怎么改进，都不可能实现超音速。
现在电机技术存在巨大的缺陷。如果电机技术没有改进，它就不是最先进的。
最先进的技术应该是：电机效率最高和超音速
It's going to be way too expensive. Far more expensive than a helicopter. It will price itself out of the market.
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I purchase 4 nuclear engines from Russia, so that I can stay in the air longer'
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for less than $1.345 million dollars
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Amen
Upper Canada
Go vertical EVTL ❤
Can you guys make passenger aircraft, Boeing like everything in the US is dangerous because you have to have shareholder value. Not overall quality/ customer safety.
Awesome video!
The thing is just TOO BLOODY BIG (and heavy) for so few seats , a consequence of stupid battery power and pointless hovering (the real goal is to avoid a take off and landing roll ,NOT to 'hang around ' chewing up power and making noise
Goodluck with this however sadly being in the UK along with it's over complicated nature the regulators will likely make life hell for them.
good luck, Alef motors has the best design in my opinion. Its Genius and can drive on regular roads. The fact it can tilt on its side and turn into a biplane is really impressive. The cockpit can rotate on two axis and the screen that protects the motors is also a flight surface. Flights start in 2025
I remember reading something about it being insanely hard to get a type rating for a tilt rotor aircraft in Europe. Though they wanted to change that once something hit the market with a slightly better safety rating than the Osprey…
Poor LD ratio.
I always wondered why they don't also make the rear propellers able to tilt as well but in an inverted manner (they face downward for vertical lift and tilt rearwards to point towards the rear for horizontal flight)
Having them be fixed and become dead weight plus be an unnecessary point of drag for the majority of the flight seems counter intuitive for an EVTOL.
Real life application, meet the concept of energy density. I'm willing to bet big money that this is not going anywhere, mainly due to severe restrictions caused by battery weight. Even in the test footage, the prototype is receiving ground power. Remove that and add 4 passengers plus a couple of laptops and this is staying firmly grounded.
In short, a project running mainly on government funding because we were all meant to switch to net zero.
Cool video! 👍
UK aerospace: "We are working hard to adhere the highest standards for safety"
US aerospace: "Safety, smafety! Fly at your own risk! We have good lawyers."
why does it have to take off vertically? that uses alot of energy isnt it!
Big money scam 😂
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