Watch Video: Doroni launches “New Buy’n’ Fly Two-Seat H1X Personal eVTOL” for Delivery in 2025

Flori­da-based Doroni has launched a new two-seat H1X fan-in-wing eVTOL, a devel­op­ment of its of H1 pro­to­type, reports a press release.

As with the pre­vi­ous H1, the new design uses coax­i­al fans posi­tioned in ducts along the wings. This time, the fans are out wider, which offers the vehi­cle a lit­tle extra wing sur­face, espe­cial­ly at the rear. Duct­ed fans, as opposed to open props on some of its com­peti­tor vehi­cles, should decrease noise lev­els.

It is a lit­tle lighter too at 1,350 lbs, yet capa­ble of car­ry­ing the same 500 lbs of pay­load between the pilot and pas­sen­ger seats as well as lug­gage.

Doron Merdinger Along­side the H1X

The vehi­cle oper­ates via one joy­stick and includes a push-but­ton take-off and land­ing; intel­li­gent autonomous nav­i­ga­tion; and advanced anti-col­li­sion sen­sors. It boasts a top speed of 120 mph and a 60-mile range or 45-minute flight time. Charg­ing should not take more than 25 min­utes. The vehi­cle can be stored in a reg­u­lar-sized garage.

Doron Merdinger, Doroni Founder and CEO, explained, “It’s a sim­ple joy­stick going for­ward, back­wards, left, right, up and down. Sim­i­lar to a three-dimen­sion­al ele­va­tor.”

Design fea­tures also include a tan­dem wing con­fig­u­ra­tion to enhance lift and effi­cien­cy; eight ver­ti­cal elec­tric pow­ered motors; and a bal­lis­tic para­chute. It is expect­ed for Doroni to sell it as a Light Sport Air­craft, which will require pilots to car­ry out just 20 hours of train­ing.

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The com­pa­ny says the H1X will under­go full-scale pro­to­type flight test­ing by the end of the year. The air­craft will start rolling out in 2025 if all goes to plan, with mass man­u­fac­tur­ing slat­ed for 2026. The cur­rent esti­mat­ed cost is between USD300,000 and USD400,000.

Doroni was found­ed sev­en years ago and last year received a FAA Spe­cial Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://doroni.io/

(Images: Doroni)

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