Vertical Aerospace completed the first phase of crewed testing for its VX4 eVTOL aircraft, involving tethered hover flights and various simulated failure scenarios. The VX4 prototype demonstrated a 20 ...

Phase 1 included tethered flights, ground taxi testing and high-powered ground runs, all with a pilot on board. Vertical is now preparing to progress to piloted untethered thrustborne testing, as soon ...

Vertical Aerospace (London, U.K.), in the middle of its piloted flight test program, has achieved Phase 2 which involved the company’s full-scale VX4 prototype advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft ...

Vertical completes Phase 2 of its piloted thrustborne testing with the VX4 prototype exceeding expectations for stability and performance The company is now preparing for the next stage in its testing ...

UK-based Vertical Aerospace said on Thursday it had completed the first phase of piloted testing of a prototype of its flagship air taxi, VX4. The VX4 has 1,500 pre-orders worth $6 billion from ...

Sept 12 (Reuters) - UK-based Vertical Aerospace (M00.F), opens new tab has completed the first phase of piloted testing of a prototype of its air-taxi, VX4, it said on Thursday, sending the company's ...

Vertical Aerospace hopes in the coming weeks to be able to start wing-borne flights with its VX4 prototype, for the first time taking the electric air taxi beyond the perimeter of its Kemble airfield ...

As a finger-numbing wind whips across Kemble airfield it keens through the empty nacelles of the 747-400 parked behind us. While the Jumbo Jet was once considered the very cutting edge of aviation, ...