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Dufour Aerospace Completes eVTOL Technology Demonstrator Flights
The company's main focus for now is on a hybrid-electric five- to seven-seat eVTOL aircraft called the aEro 3.
Dufour Aero 1
Dufour Aerospace describes the Aero 1 as an unmanned aerobatic aircraft. [Photo: Dufour Aerospace]

Dufour Aerospace this week announced the completion of the first phase of flight testing for the technology demonstrator it is using to develop its planned Aero family of eVTOL aircraft. The Swiss company has been experimenting with a tiltwing configuration but has yet to indicate what form the full-scale prototype will take.

In a statement issued on July 27, Dufour said that it has conducted 550 test flights, expanding the flight envelope incrementally to demonstrate, “a high degree of stability and control in all conditions, including transitions from hover to cruise and back again.”