June 14, 2021
Buffeted by wind gusting in moments from 20 kt to nearly calm and back again, an Aerovel Flexrotor, nose to the sky, opens its rear fuselage into a petal of landing legs. It remains doggedly on-station as it prepares for touchdown, and lands gently on a target barely bigger than its leg span. Its robust…[ Read more ]
October 15, 2017
Long range and endurance are capabilities not often associated with VTOL aircraft. But Aerovel’s unmanned Flexrotor, a unique miniature tailsitter, is cut from a different cloth. Last week a Flexrotor named for the sea nymph Actaea lifted off into a grey and rainy morning with 7.5 kg of fuel onboard. It transitioned from hover to…[ Read more ]