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In 2019, the company became Honeywell's first eVTOL customer, buying their fly-by-wire aircraft control systems for a future Vertical Aerospace aircraft, the VA-X4. [10] Further in 2019 they launched their second aircraft, VA-X2, making them the first company in the world to release flight footage of an electric VTOL aircraft capable of ...
Gol Linhas (GOL) inks a deal with aircraft lessor Avolon and investor Grupo Comporte to buy or lease 250 VA-X4 eVTOL air taxis for Brazil.
First aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. Proved aerodynamic viability of thin wing sections. [10] X-1A X-1B X-1C X-1D: Bell USAF, NACA 1951 High-speed and high-altitude flight X-1E: Bell USAF, NACA 1955 High-speed and high-altitude flight X-2: Bell USAF 1952 High-speed and high-altitude flight First aircraft to exceed Mach 3. [11]
An electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is a variety of VTOL ... Joby S4, [31] Vertical Aerospace VA-X4, and Zuri 2.0 [32] are tilt-rotor craft.
A fleet of electric air taxis is set to take off over Sao Paulo by 2025 after a deal between Brazilian airline Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes and Irish lessor Avolon to buy or lease 250 of the ...
The Northrop X-4 Bantam is a prototype small twinjet aircraft manufactured by Northrop Corporation in 1948. It had no horizontal tail surfaces, depending instead on combined elevator and aileron control surfaces (called elevons) for control in pitch and roll attitudes, almost exactly in the manner of the similar-format, rocket-powered Messerschmitt Me 163 of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe.
Later production aircraft were provisioned with the more powerful Westinghouse J46 engine. The F7U-3M model was the first aircraft in US Navy service to be capable of firing the AAM-N-2 Sparrow I air-to-air missile. [3] [23] While it had been intended to equip the Cutlass with radar, such apparatus would be excluded due to weight constraints. [24]
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