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The aircraft weighs 313 lb (142 kg) empty and can carry a pilot and baggage totaling 250 lb (113 kg). It can accommodate a pilot of up to 6.5 ft (1.98 m) in height. A ballistic parachute comes equipped with the aircraft for use by the aviator in emergency situations. [1] [6] [10] The aircraft is not a tiltwing or tiltrotor design. Instead, the ...
Paul Sandner Moller (born December 11, 1936, in Fruitvale, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian engineer who has spent over fifty years developing the Moller Skycar personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle. The engine technology developed for the Skycar has also been adapted as a UAV platform called the "aerobot". [1]
VTOL aircraft can take off and land vertically, as well as hover. eVTOLs are electrically powered VTOL aircraft. Personal air vehicles (PAVs) are under development for urban air mobility. These include projects such as the CityAirbus demonstrator, the Lilium Jet or the Volocopter , the EHang 216 and the experimental Boeing Passenger Air Vehicle .
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ARC Aerosystems have since designed and produced the Pegasus VTOL Tec, a modern a two-seat, single-engine autogyro, closely modelled on the Avian Gyroplane, but with VTOL capacity. Prototypes have been built and on 13th November 2023, ARC Aerosystems announced the start of test flights of the Pegasus VTOL at its facilities in Cranfield (to gain ...
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The aircraft features a cantilever high-wing, a five-seat, enclosed cabin under a bubble canopy, retractable tricycle landing gear, eight vertical electric lift motors powering shrouded fans mounted in two underwing pods and a single electric motor engine in a tail-mounted tractor configuration. It will be capable of flying on six of the eight ...