JAXA’s Lift-Offset Concept Improves Multicopter eVTOL Performance

Graham Warwick February 20, 2024

Variable-pitch rotors are arranged to minimize aerodynamic interference between them.

Credit: JAXA
Japanese researchers are studying the design for a multicopter electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi that uses the lift-offset rotor concept to improve aerodynamic efficiency in the cruise phase of flight. Development of the multirotor lift offset (MRLO) concept was begun in 2023 by...
Graham Warwick

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