November 17, 2021

We are pleased to announce that the Flexrotor unmanned aircraft equipped with the L3Harris Small Secure Datalink (SSDL) V3 successfully demonstrated how our versatile VTOL Group 2 UAS (NATO Class I UAS) can deliver powerful C4ISR capabilities in austere combat environments at the BOLD QUEST 21.2 Coalition Capability Demonstration. During several long endurance flights at…[ Read more ]

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 ]

January 11, 2021

Aerovel recently hired aerospace veteran Ali Dian as interim CEO to manage day-to-day operations and to interface with civil and military customers in the US and abroad.  Aerovel founding president Dr. Tad McGeer will continue as the company’s Chief Technology Officer focusing on the continued technical excellence of Aerovel Flexrotor as well as any future derivatives….[ Read more ]

October 30, 2020

Diminutive, and squat on its four lunar-lander legs, a Flexrotor spins-up its outsize rotor, levitates into the sky, and transitions to a relaxed, sailplane-like cruise.  Always otherworldly for the uninitiated, the show this time was a little unusual even for old hands. This Flexrotor was carrying more than it ever had before. Aerovel’s Flexrotor uniquely…[ Read more ]