Aurora eVTOL Crash Caused By Vibration Affecting Flight Controls

Credit: Pegasus: Aurora Flight Sciences
Airframe vibration led the control system on Aurora Flight Sciences’ Pegasus passenger air vehicle (PAV) to shut down the lift motors during landing, causing the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype to crash, the preliminary report into the June 4 accident says. The unmanned PAV...
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