VX4 Achieves Major Milestone With Launch of Phase 2 of Piloted …
1 day ago · The VX4 prototype has completed nearly 90 test points, measuring 35,000 flight and system parameters, producing several thousand gigabytes of data. LONDON & NEW YORK, November 12, 2024--(BUSINESS ...
Vertical pushes back VX4 until 2028 but promises first upgrade in …
1 day ago · Vertical Aerospace has delayed certification and service entry for its VX4 electric air taxi by another two years, even as it advances flight-test activities and plots future upgrades.
VX4 Achieves Major Milestone With Launch of Phase 2 of
1 day ago · Provided by Business Wire Nov 12, 2024 3:01am. VX4 Achieves Major Milestone With Launch of Phase 2 of Piloted Flight Testing. Vertical’s VX4 prototype begins untethered, piloted thrustborne ...
Vertical Aerospace starts untethered flights - AeroTime
1 day ago · Vertical Aerospace. British eVTOL developer Vertical Aerospace has conducted the first untethered flight of its VX4 prototype, kicking off Phase Two of its development program. Until now Vertical Aerospace had conducted piloted flight tests, but with the aircraft always tethered to the ground by a cable. In July 2024, the United Kingdom’s ...
Vertical Aerospace targets 2028 certification under ‘Flightpath …
1 day ago · Subscribe. Vertical Aerospace has unveiled what it terms a “strategy for market leadership before the end of the decade,” with ‘Flightpath 2030’ intending to “set a clear route for the company’s journey from prototype to production” – with the first major update to the VX4 expected as soon as 2030. With the VX4 to be certified ...
Vertical Aerospace’s VX4 prototype achieves major milestone with …
1 day ago · Vertical Aerospace's full-scale VX4 prototype has completed piloted, untethered vertical take-off and landing for the first time, as Phase 2 of its flight test programme begins. The VX4 prototype, which delivers up to 1.4 MW of peak power, surpassed expectations in hover performance, control and stability. Testing will now progress to low- speed manoeuvres using
No strings attached: inaugural untethered flight for Vertical …
1 day ago · Earlier this year, chief technology officer Michael Cervenka explained that the tetherless, thrust-borne campaign of the VX4 – “effectively redoing what [Vertical] did on aircraft one with a pilot on board” – would systematically continue to validate Vertical’s engineering, design, test data and aircraft over the coming months.
This next-generation VX4 is more powerful than the previous full-scale prototype, with an impressive 20% increase in the power to weight ratio, enabling the aircraft to reach speeds of up to 150mph – the certification aircraft’s intended cruise speed.
Vertical's New VX4 Prototype Completes Phase 1 of Piloted Testing
Sep 12, 2024 · Its latest VX4 has completed the first phase of its piloted flight test programme at the Vertical Flight Test Centre. During Phase 1, the VX4 prototype conducted multiple piloted tethered...
Air-taxi maker Vertical completes phase one testing of prototype
Sep 12, 2024 · UK-based Vertical Aerospace has completed the first phase of piloted testing of a prototype of its air-taxi, VX4, it said on Thursday, sending the company's shares up 3.9% in U.S. premarket...