China’s Autoflight Flies V1500M eVTOL

Autoflight’s passenger-carrying V1500M is designed to be self-piloted.
Credit: Autoflight
Barely a month after completing a $100 million series A fundraising round, Chinese startup Autoflight has flown a prototype of its V1500M three/four-passenger electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi. The company said design finalization to first flight took just 100 days. The all-electric...
Graham Warwick

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