Marubeni Resumes Osaka Expo eVTOL Flights, Drops VX4 Plans

Marubeni is to resume Lift Hexa eVTOL demonstration flights at the Osaka-Kansai Expo

Marubeni is to resume Lift Hexa eVTOL demonstration flights at the Osaka-Kansai Expo.

Credit: Marubeni
Japan’s Marubeni is to resume demonstration flights with Lift Aircraft’s electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) Hexa at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka after investigating an inflight failure that led to flights being suspended in April. While the single-seat multicopter Hexa is to resume...
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