Highly-secretive eVTOL aircraft developer Opener gave a rare public glimpse of its BlackFly single-seat vehicle when it briefly climbed into the air before thousands of onlookers at this week's EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The July 27 flight was billed as the first manned flight of the BlackFly in a public venue and it was one of two eVTOL aircraft to make manned public debut flights during the event, with the other being Volocopter's VoloCity model.
The first manned flight of the initial eVTOL design took place a decade ago in 2011 at Warkworth in Canada. In 2014, the company moved to Palo Alto, California, and was reorganized as Opener. Development continued, eventually resulting in the production version of the BlackFly, which was launched in 2018. More than 4,300 flights have been conducted so far, with testing being conducted almost entirely in stealth mode.
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