Phenix Solutions is flight-testing a single-motor coaxial, remotely piloted aircraft under the U.S. Air Force Agility Prime program, with FAA certification planned for 2023. Agility Prime is an Air Force Research Laboratory effort to study the potential application of VTOL aircraft for transport, search and rescue, reconnaissance, and other missions.
Derived from two prototypes—a single-rotor design, as well as a quadrotor—the Phenix Ultra 2XL’s coaxial design, eliminates the need for a tail rotor and is “highly stable,” said Phenix president Brian Riese. “The Phenix prototype flight-testing validated our core flight control avionics, which allowed us to advance a modular-off-the-shelf coaxial design.”
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