AUTOFLUG becomes latest partner to help develop Volocopter’s VoloCity eVTOL

AUTOFLUG has joined forces with eVTOL man­u­fac­tur­er Volo­copter to build and devel­op the pas­sen­gers seats for its VoloC­i­ty eVTOL air­craft.

This lat­est announce­ment comes after Diehl Aero­space said ear­li­er this month that it would also be part­ner­ing with Volo­copter to pro­duce the flight con­trol com­put­ers.

Jan-Hen­drik Boe­lens, CTO of Volo­copter, said: “In the eVTOL sec­tor, we have to pay even more atten­tion to weight and com­fort than is already the case in avi­a­tion. In AUTOFLUG, we have gained an expe­ri­enced part­ner who under­stands the require­ments of this new mar­ket and is pre­pared to tread new paths togeth­er.”

As well as design­ing the seats for the VoloC­i­ty, the con­tract with AUTOFLUG also includes the joint devel­op­ment of a wall con­nec­tion for the seats to make opti­mum use of the avail­able space in the cab­in.

“We are extreme­ly delight­ed that we can active­ly enrich this pio­neer­ing con­cept with our seats,” adds Mar­tin Kroell, Man­ag­ing Part­ner at AUTOFLUG.

“The strength of the prod­uct design, but also the inno­v­a­tive spir­it of both com­pa­nies, are a good basis for the col­lab­o­ra­tion, with this ini­tial con­tract hope­ful­ly just being the start.”

In 2011, Volo­copter per­formed the first-ever manned flight of a pure­ly elec­tric mul­ti­copter and has since show­cased numer­ous pub­lic flights with its full-scale air­craft.

The most notable have been the pub­lic test flights at Singapore’s Mari­na Bay in Octo­ber 2019 and the world’s first autonomous eVTOL flight in Dubai 2017. Volo­copter is also devel­op­ing prod­ucts for the logis­tics and pre­ci­sion agri­cul­ture space with their Volo­Drone.