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Vertical Completes VX4 eVTOL Prototype, Plans to Begin Test Flights This Summer
The company just released its first half-year earnings report for 2022.
Vertical Aerospace's VX4 eVTOL prototype
Vertical plans to begin flight testing with its full-scale VX4 prototype in the summer of 2022. (Credit: Vertical Aerospace)

Vertical Aerospace has finished building the first full-scale prototype of its VX4 eVTOL and will begin flight testing the aircraft this summer, the company confirmed while announcing financial results for the first half of 2022 this week. 

“I am delighted to share that we have reached a critical engineering milestone by completing the build of our full-scale VX4 prototype, and we have now begun putting it through its paces for an intensive, multi-month flight test program,” Vertical founder and CEO Stephen Fitzpatrick wrote in a letter to the company’s shareholders. Fitzpatrick added that Vertical now has a pre-order backlog exceeding 1,400 units of the VX4.