UK-based Vertical Aerospace plans to roll out and fly its VA-1X fixed-wing eVTOL aircraft by year-end, company chief engineer Tim Williams said on January 26 at the Vertical Flight Society’s Electric VTOL Symposium. According to Williams, the VA-1X will be certified in 2024, with first deliveries to follow immediately.
Though development work has been complicated by the Covid pandemic, Vertical Aerospace was able to complete the detailed design of the VA-1X last year and has just begun building the prototype. Williams said the rollout of the full-scale aircraft is expected in late July, followed by ground tests in late August, and tethered first flight in late September. Untethered flights are expected to start in 2022, first in vertical mode, then in forward flight only, and, finally, transition between these two modes.
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