NFT Unveils New-look Aska eVTOL as a Flying SUV
The California start-up plans to fly a full-scale prototype in 2022 as part of NASA's Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge en route to planned first deliveries in 2026.
NFT today unveiled plans for a four-seat eVTOL aircraft that it intends to market to private owner-pilots for personal transportation. The California-based start-up describes the hybrid-electric Aska as a flying car or an SUV but intends to certify the aircraft under the FAA’s Part 23 rules. Its maximum takeoff weight is reported as being between two and three metric tons (4,400 to 6,600 pounds), making it too heavy to be certified in the light sport aircraft category.
The design of the Aska is radically different from that of a prototype that NFT unveiled in June 2019. That vehicle looked more like an archetypal flying car and had long, foldable wings with tilting ducted fans at the tips and two more at the rear.
