Autoflight’s eVTOL Hits Transition Milestone In Record Time

The first transition flight in January followed 30 hover-mode flights since the aircraft first flew in October.
Credit: AutoFlight
Chinese startup AutoFlight completed the first transition between vertical and forward flight for its Prosperity 1 air taxi in record time for an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft program by drawing on its experience from almost 10,000 flights of its unmanned cargo aircraft. The 1,500...
Graham Warwick

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