AFWERX Says Agility Prime eVTOLs Lack Range, Shifts To Hybrid

Beta Technologies says it first flew a hybrid version of its ALIA eVTOL in fall 2023.

Credit: Beta Technologies
In a significant shift of its strategy, the U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX Agility Prime program has acknowledged that the battery-powered electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft it has been funding and testing over the past four years lacks the range necessary to be useful over the vast...
Garrett Reim

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