Chinese Startup EVT Flies Full-Scale eVTOL Demonstrator

Graham Warwick April 29, 2024

EVT’s ET9 bears a close resemblance to Beta’s lift-plus-cruise Alia eVTOL. 

Credit: EVT Aerotechnics
Nanjing-based EVT Aerotechnics conducted a first uncrewed tethered hover flight of the lift-plus-cruise ET9 on March 29. The ET9 is a 2,200-kg (4,800-lb.) gross weight piloted four-passenger eVTOL vehicle with eight lift propellers mounted in coaxial pairs on wing booms that extend aft to connect to...
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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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