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Market Watch A3 Vahana is a full-electric VTOL vehicle designed by A3 based in Santa Clara, California. The venture capital company A3 is founded in 2015 by Airbus Group as an innovation outpost in Silicon Valley. Vahana is a tandem tiltwing aircraft, where four variable-speed, variable-pitch propellers are mounted both on the forward and the main wing. The propellers and the wings tilt up during vertical takeoff and tilt horizontal for cruise flight. The demonstrator uses 45-kW motors and Lithium Polymer batteries. The current version of Vahana is a single-seater designed for autonomous ride-sharing or air taxi services. The first fully autonomous flights will be performed before end of 2017. Yet it is planned for 2020 to have a certifiable and producible vehicle with two seats. VAHANA A3 AIRBUS 3000 Sand Hill Road - 1-120 • Menlo Park 94025 • California • USA • Phone : +1 703 889-0535 hello@airbus-sv.comm • www.airbus-sv.com EW MTOW PA BA PD Engine Power St Vmax Vc Vz ES Endurance Price (estimate) Kit Plan 725 8 2 8x45 kW 360 kW 1 173 1/2h - - AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCE At the Uber Elevate Summit in April 2017, Aurora Flight Science unveiled its two-seat eVTOL air vehicle concept for Uber’s flying taxi service. Aurora Flight Science has more than 20 years of experience in developing special-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle (more than 30 unmanned aircraft developed). For this aircraft, Aurora’s design logic was to keep the architecture simple and emphasizes the cruise efficiency. For this reason, its eVTOL aircraft features eight lift propellers distributed along two booms for the vertical takeoff, while a single pusher propeller delivers the propulsion for the horizontal flight. For the cruise flight, the lift propellers will be stopped and the lift is generated by three aerodynamic surfaces, i.e. the canard, wing and tail. Even the aircraft is designed for fully autonomous flights, the two-seater can provide place for a safety pilot due to current certification constraints. The first full-scale flight tests of the aircraft are scheduled to 2020 in Dallas and Dubai. AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCE CORPORATION 9950 Wakeman Drive • Manassas, Virginia 20110 • USA • Phone : +1 703 369 3633 info@aurora.aero • http://www.aurora.aero AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCE 1 EW MTOW PA BA PD Engine Power St Vmax Vc Vz ES Endurance Price (estimate) Kit Plan - - 8 + 1 2 - - 2 - - - - - - - - E-VOLO The VC200 made by the e-volo team in Germany had its unmanned maiden flight on November 17, 2013, and its first manned flight in March 2016. It is a world exclusive design, and so far the only two-seat multicopter. It is a sideby-side 450kg MTOW ultralight ‘volocopter’ with 18 electric motors and 18 rotors with each rotor 1.8 m in diameter. It comes with fly-by-wire technology, and is a fully carbon built aircraft. The rotor arms are detachable for transport and hangar storage. In 2017, e-volo signed an agreement with Dubai’s transport authority to begin testing VC200 as part of a flying taxi service in the fourth quarter of 2017. VC200 E-VOLO GMBH Oestliche Rheinbrueckenstr. 50 • 76187 Karlsruhe • GERMANY • Phone : +49 (0)721 754 000-0, Fax : +49 (0)721 754 000-99 info@volocopter.com • www.e-volo.com EW MTOW PA BA PD Engine Power St Vmax Vc Vz ES Endurance Price (estimate) Kit Plan 290 450 18 2 1.8 18x3 kW 54 kW 2 100 50 17.5 kWh 30 min - - EHANG INC. The EHang 184 is an Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) designed by Guangzhou EHang Inc. and it was first shown to the public on CES 2016. The designator “184” stands for “1 passenger, 8 propellers, and 4 arms”. The EHang 184 has eight unducted 1.6 m diameter propellers arranged in a quadcopter configuration, where two counter-rotating propellers are mounted on each of the four so called “propulsion arms”. According to the manufacturer, the empty weight of EHang 184 is about 240 kg and a maximum gross takeoff weight is 360 kg. The lithium polymer batteries enable the drone a cruise speed of 60 km/h and an endurance of about 30 minutes. Currently, EHang 184 is performing test flights in Dubei and Nevada (USA). EHANG 184 EHANG INC. Building No.3 of Yixiang Science Park,No.72 • 510700 Huangpu District, Guangzhou Guangdong • Guangdong • CHINA • Phone : +86 020-29028899 service@ehang.com • www.ehang.com EW MTOW PA BA PD Engine Power St Vmax Vc Vz ES Endurance Price (estimate) Kit Plan 240 360 8 2 1.6 8x19 kW 152 kW 1 60 17 kWh 30 - - e Flight Journal 42
Market Watch ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT CONCEPT (EAC) On AERO 2017 a small and relatively unknown company from France, EAC (Electric Aircraft Concept) presented a multicopter. The development started three and a half years ago and the multicopter is shown to the public for the first time. The Multicopter has eight propellers from the company E-Props, and they are each driven by a Plettenberg engine (30 kW power and 6 kg weight). The power is supplied by Li-Po batteries. The Multicopter has an empty weight of 350 kg, with a load of 200 kg. The MTOW is thus 550 kg. WHISPER ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT CONCEPT (EAC) 1002 Route du Barroux • 84330 CAROMB • FRANCE • Phone : +33 0033(0)6-03-48-28-37 info@eac-whisper.com • www.eac-whisper.com EW MTOW PA BA PD Engine Power St Vmax Vc Vz ES Endurance Price (estimate) Kit Plan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - KITTY HAWK CORPORATION Kitty Hawk Corporation is a flying car company financially backed by Google founder Larry Page. In April 2017, a video of its Kitty Hawk Flyer was first time released. The Flyer is a full-electric VTOL aircraft within the Ultralight category (empty weight about 100 kg). It has 8 propellers and is designed to be flown over water. In USA, it can be flown over uncongested areas without pilot license. The official sale start is planned for the end of 2017, and the go-to-market Flyer will have a different design than the working prototype in the video footage. KITTY HAWK FLYER KITTY HAWK CORPORATION 2700 Broderick Way • Mountain View, 94043 • California • USA • Phone : +1 650)265-0451 hello@kittyhawk.aero • https://kittyhawk.aero EW MTOW PA BA PD Engine Power St Vmax Vc Vz ES Endurance Price (estimate) Kit Plan 100 - 8 2 - - 1 - 40 - - - - - - LILIUM AVIATION Lilium Eagle is full-electric VTOL vehicle designed by a start-up company Lilium Aviation located in Gilching near Munich. The maiden flight of the full-scale 2-seater prototype “Eagle” was performed on April 20, 2017. As the wording “Jet” implies, the air stream is accelerated by 36 impellers located on the wings (12 on the forward wing and 24 on the main wing). During takeoff, the impellers point downward to provide vertical lift (helicopter mode), while the impellers are tilted into the flight direction to provide propulsion force for the cruise flight (airplane mode). The yaw control is achieved with variating the impeller differently left and right, therefore, no vertical stabilizer is needed. After the successful first flight of the 2-seater, the maiden flight of a 5-seater version is planned for 2019. LILIUM EAGLE LILIUM GMBH Friedrichshafener Strasse 1 • 82205 Gilching, • GERMANY • Phone : +49 0)81 0577 277 87 info@lilium-aviation.com • www.lilium-aviation.com EW MTOW PA BA PD Engine Power St Vmax Vc Vz ES Endurance Price (estimate) Kit Plan 400 600 36 12 0.25 - 2 400 300 - - 1 h - - - SUREFLY WORKHORSE The manufacturer of electric vehicles for delivery services has developed a delivery drone for Amazon. On this base they now presented the prototype of this double-seat multicopter, which has been publicly presented at the Paris Airshow 2017 for the first time. The two-seater is powered by 8 Emrax e-motors from Slovenia. In their workhorse the Americans fully set on hybrid. There are some Licium, ion batteries in the four foldable rotor arms, but these only for short flights. The main energy source is a two-cylinder four-stroke engine in the back of the machine with its almost 200 hp it drives a generator. First flight planned for end of 2017. WORKHORSE SUREFLY 100 Commerce Dr. • Loveland, Ohio 45140 • USA • Phone : +1 513-360-4704 http://workhorse.com EW MTOW PA BA PD Engine Power St Vmax Vc Vz ES Endurance Price (estimate) Kit Plan 500 680 4 2 - 8 * 30 kW Emrax - - - - - - - - - - 43 e Flight Journal
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