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Anduril and Archer Aviation unveiled Thunder at the Farnborough International Airshow on Sunday, a Group 5 autonomous attack rotorcraft built on a jointly developed dual-use platform. The aircraft is designed to multiply the combat power of crewed attack and assault helicopters by operating alongside them without a pilot. It uses a series hybrid-electric powertrain and […]
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Xpeng debuted the Land Aircraft Carrier at a launch event in Munich on Wednesday, the first time the Chinese automaker has shown its modular flying car outside Asia. The vehicle is a six-wheeled ground unit, called the Mothership, with a detachable two-seat eVTOL flight module that stows in the back. The six-rotor flying module uses […]
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Beta Technologies has completed the first flights in the US government’s electric air-taxi pilot programme. The Amazon-backed company flew the debut missions of the scheme, CNBC reports. The flights did not carry passengers. Instead, they transported manufactured organs for United Therapeutics between airports in Maryland and Virginia, covering about 275 nautical miles. The programme, an eVTOL […]
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Building an electric air taxi is less about one dramatic first flight than about doing it over and over until regulators are convinced. Vertical Aerospace has just put a second aircraft in the air to help it get there faster. The Bristol-based company said on Tuesday that its newest full-scale prototype completed its maiden piloted […]
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