Overair Picks Toray Materials For Butterfly

Light, stiff Toray composites are used in the Butterfly’s airframe and propulsion units.
Credit: Overair
Overair is using prepreg carbon fiber from Toray Composite Materials to build the full-scale prototype of its Butterfly tilt-rotor electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi. Toray is also supplying composites to eVTOLs being developed by Joby Aviation and Lilium. A spinoff from Karem...
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