ASX Flies Tiltwing eVTOL Air Taxi Demo With Plug-And-Play Payloads

ASX’s Sigma Six has six rotors on a tilting wing, interchangeable payload modules and an automated ground vehicle to handle them.
Credit: Airspace Experience Technologies
Detroit startup Airspace Experience Technologies (ASX) has completed the first hover flight of its proof-of-concept Sigma Six, a tiltwing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle with interchangeable plug-and-play payloads for defense, emergency response, cargo and passenger transport...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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