Watch Video: Horizon Aircraft Offers Update on Technical Flight Testing Progress

Hori­zon Air­craft has announced sev­er­al updates as the com­pa­ny “con­tin­ues to prove crit­i­cal tech­nol­o­gy ele­ments of its unique air­craft,” reports a press release.

Key Tech­ni­cal High­lights

Val­i­da­tion of the patent pend­ing yaw con­trol sys­tem: A key com­po­nent of the patent­ed HOVR Wing tech­nol­o­gy, has also been an impor­tant ele­ment in the recent test­ing phas­es. This sys­tem enables pre­cise hov­er and per­for­mance in strong cross­winds, pro­vid­ing a smoother and more com­fort­able ride for pas­sen­gers as well as enhanced sta­bil­i­ty and con­trol for pilots.

Full-scale propul­sion unit pro­duc­tion has com­menced: With the detailed design and aero­dy­nam­ic analy­sis suf­fi­cient­ly devel­oped, phys­i­cal pro­duc­tion and test­ing of the core ver­ti­cal lift­ing fan tech­nol­o­gy rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant tech­ni­cal step towards build­ing the full-scale pro­to­type air­craft.

Horizon’s large-scale pro­to­type: Con­tin­ues to reach tech­no­log­i­cal mile­stones as it moves through its rig­or­ous flight-test­ing pro­gram gov­erned under Trans­port Canada’s Spe­cial Flight Oper­a­tions Cer­tifi­cate (SFOC). Tran­si­tion­al flight tests remain on sched­ule to be com­plet­ed by mid-sum­mer and the air­craft con­tin­ues to demon­strate expect­ed sta­bil­i­ty and con­trol.

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Bran­don Robin­son, Chair­man and CEO of Hori­zon com­ment­ed, “Over the past sev­er­al months, Hori­zon has made incred­i­ble progress. The tran­si­tion flight test­ing pro­gram has tak­en sig­nif­i­cant strides for­ward, with the air­craft demon­strat­ing impres­sive sta­bil­i­ty and con­trol all the way from hov­er to approach­ing tran­si­tion speeds.”

Adding, “These extreme­ly pos­i­tive test results con­tin­ue to val­i­date our inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­o­gy, our prac­ti­cal approach and the team’s capa­bil­i­ty to deliv­er on our tar­get time­line.”

The release says, “The com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to lever­age lessons learned from its cur­rent large-scale pro­to­type flight test pro­gram to devel­op its full-scale air­craft. The Cavorite X7 eVTOL design is expect­ed to fly faster and car­ry more car­go than its all-elec­tric com­peti­tors. The air­craft fea­tures a patent­ed wing sys­tem allow­ing it to fly most of its mis­sion in a con­fig­u­ra­tion like that of a nor­mal air­craft.” 

It goes on, “The Cavorite will use a hybrid elec­tric main pow­er sys­tem that promis­es to be extreme­ly effi­cient, safe, and able to re-charge its bat­tery array in flight and after land­ing. The com­pa­ny is posi­tioned to build its full-scale demon­stra­tor on sched­ule and cap­i­talise on a rapid­ly grow­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) mar­ket.”

Mean­while, Hori­zon Aircraft’s Man­age­ment Team are par­tic­i­pat­ing in the fol­low­ing upcom­ing investor and trade events:-

: EF Hut­ton Annu­al Glob­al Investor Con­fer­ence (Wednes­day May 15th at the Plaza Hotel, New York)

: The Inter­na­tion­al Aero­space Inno­va­tion Forum (May 21–22nd at Tech Zone, Palais de Con­grès de Mon­tréal)

For more infor­ma­tion

www.horizonaircraft.com 

(Images: Hori­zon Air­craft)

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