Vertical Completes VX4 eVTOL Tethered Hover Testing

Graham Warwick September 12, 2024

The VX4 was tethered for initial piloted hover tests.

Credit: Vertical Aerospace
Vertical Aerospace has finished the first phase of testing of its second VX4 electric air taxi prototype, completing ground runs, taxi trials and tethered hovers over a total of 20 piloted sorties since beginning testing at Cotswold Airport, near Kemble in England, on June 22. Tests included...
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