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The Pivotal BlackFly is an American electric-powered VTOL personal air vehicle designed by Canadian engineer Marcus Leng and formerly produced by Opener, now Pivotal. It was publicly revealed in 2018, after nine years of development. The aircraft is supplied to customers complete and ready-to-fly.
The BlackFly complies with FAA Part 103 (Ultralight) category in the United States for flight in Class G airspace. About Pivotal Pivotal designs, develops, and manufactures light eVTOL aircraft. As an industry pioneer, Pivotal is renowned for the BlackFly, the first light eVTOL to be commercially available and delivered to buyers in the United ...
VTOL is a subset of V/STOL (vertical or short take-off & landing). ... Opener Aero demonstrated an electrically powered fixed-wing VTOL aircraft, the Blackfly, ...
Joby Aviation eVTOL in 2023 Airbus CityAirbus eVTOL hovering. An electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is a variety of VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft that uses electric power to hover, take off, and land vertically.
This is a list of fixed-wing aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing arranged under manufacturer. The list excludes helicopters, including compound helicopters and gyrocopters, because they are assumed to have this capability.
Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences designed an electric VTOL prototype, developing it to prototype by 2019. [1] First, a model 1:10 was used to test the concept; it was flown with and without a fuselage. Further flight tests, with a 1:4 scale concept aircraft, were also conducted by Aurora. [2]
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Eustace is currently Technical Advisor [8] at Opener Aerospace, sometimes giving interviews about their electric VTOL aircraft, the Opener BlackFly. In the course of his professional career, Eustace co-authored nine publications and appeared as co-inventor in ten patents.