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Is the development of new Russian VTOL aircraft to be launched soon?

21 August 2024 Jacek Domański

At the beginning of August 2024, ПАО “Яковлев” (PSJC Yakovlev) officially announced the company is ready to launch development of new Russian 5th generation aircraft, featuring the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capability. The information […]

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Zephatali Walsh becomes the 2023 Airspeeder EXA Series Champion

20 December 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

After double win in the first and second eVTOL EXA Circuit Races in 2022, Zephatali Walsh won the Airspeeder race held earlier this month at Stonefield Airfield in South Australia. That victory emerged him as […]

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Alauda Aeronautics unveiled Airspeeder Mk 4

24 February 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

On 21st February, Alauda Aeronautics officially unveiled its fourth, but first manned, flying race car, the Airspeeder Mk 4. Designed and built in Adelaide, South Australia, the new vehicle is the fastest hydrogen-powered eVTOL (Electric […]

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10 February 1967 – maiden flight of Dornier Do 31

9 February 2023 Jacek Domański

On 10th February 1967, the prototype of West German vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), jet-powered transport aircraft, performed its first flight. In the 1960s and 1970s, development of vertical or short take-off and landing, jet-powered […]

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First ever circuit race of eVTOL Airspeeders completed

17 October 2022 Kacper Kolibowski

At the end of August 2022, we informed you that Airspeeder electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) flying race car had completed its 250th test flight. Then, its manufacturer, Alauda Aeronautics, had confirmed its readiness […]

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250th test flight of Airspeeder racer aircraft

27 August 2022 Kacper Kolibowski

Since the turn of the first two decades of the 21st century we are witnessing creation of a new aerial sport of the now near future – Airspeeder electric flying vehicles racing series. Earlier this […]

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10 April 1963 – maiden flight of EWR VJ 101

10 April 2020 Jacek Domański

Maiden flight of EWR VJ 101, a German experimental VTOL jet fighter. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, the idea of jet-powered VTOL aeroplane has spread around the world. Several nations with developed […]

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