Inventor of Converticopter & Elytron, the revolutionary vertical flight aircraft and UAV Converticopter
Designer of the Rhaegal cargo aircraft at Sabrewing Air
Bad news from
@VerticalAero
at Cotswold Airport, where - according to an airfield source - the VX4 #evtol has crashed from approximately 20ft during an unmanned inflight shutdown as part of its ongoing testing programme. Significant structural damage shown in the image below:
When Nature, the worlds most famous scientific publication, regards cargo drones as an alternative in delivery, you know things are getting real: https://t.co/PXM1DbGc4T
According to @VTOLsociety we count today around 600 concepts, dealing with eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing aircrafts).
In these days I could imagine it’s difficult for institutional & private investors to decide in which undertaking to invest.