Chinese Startup Plans Tilt-Wing Ducted Fan eVTOL

Shanghai-based Inflync has made transition flights with a subscale model of its tilt-wing ducted fan eVTOL.

Credit: Inflync
Another Chinese startup has emerged with ambitions to develop an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi. Shanghai-based Inflync has been formed by ex-employees of another Chinese startup, Pantuo Aviation. Inflync is developing a tilt-wing ducted fan aircraft and on May 19 posted...
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