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Crowdfunding Raises $2.5 Million for Doroni's H1 Personal eVTOL Aircraft
After an initial tethered hover flight with a technology demonstrator, the U.S. start-up is refining the design for the prototype it is building for piloted flight testing.
Doroni Aerospace's H1 eVTOL technology demonstrator makes a first tethered hover flight.
Doroni Aerospace's H1 eVTOL technology demonstrator recently made a first tethered hover flight. (Image: Doroni Aerospace)

Doroni Aerospace completed a further round of crowdfunding on March 3, raising almost $2.5 million from more than 1,000 investors to support its plans to bring the two-seat H1 personal eVTOL to market. The Florida-based start-up closed the StartEngine.com campaign within days of releasing a video showing a full-scale technology demonstrator making a short tethered hover flight at its 13,000-sq-ft headquarters in Pompano Beach.

According to business development manager Yaakov Werdiger, Doroni’s engineering team will conduct further remotely piloted tethered flights after making minor adjustments to the all-electric vehicle. It aims to gradually transition toward untethered flights with a pilot on board and has already tested the yaw, pitch, and roll functions, as well as the integration of the propulsion system and autopilot.