Vertical Aerospace has performed a short tethered first flight of its VX4, kicking off the test campaign for the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Conducted inside a hangar at ...

Vertical Aerospace last weekend flew its full-scale demonstrator model. The UK company said the VX4 eVTOL briefly took off over the ground with a pilot. The company claims the tethered flight makes it ...

American UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) developer Easy Aerial introduced a first-of-its-kind hybrid drone that can combine tethered with untethered flight for maximum versatility. Raptor is Easy Aerial ...

A 70% growth in tethered drones and UAV market is expected in the nearest future as stated by Technavio, a market analysis company. Flyfocus, a design and manufacturing company of ground connected ...

Masten: “Here is a glimpse of our tethered test sequence. With the tied down (or tied up) tests completed, this is the next step in qualifying our Xaero rocket vehicle for flight. In addition to ...

AAM Briefs: EHang, Vertical Aerospace & More is published in Advanced Air Mobility Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence ...

Phase 1 included tethered flights, ground taxi testing and high-powered ground runs, all with a pilot on board. Vertical is now preparing to progress to piloted untethered thrustborne testing, as soon ...

Vertical Aerospace has now completed 14 tethered test flights of its VX4 prototype following the aircraft’s initial lift-off on 24 September – equating to a sortie once every three days. Disclosing ...

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