Bellwether Industries to present its private urban aircraft for the first time at DroneX

Urban air mobil­i­ty com­pa­ny Bell­wether Indus­tries will dis­play a pro­to­type of its VTOL tech­nol­o­gy demon­stra­tor for the first time at DroneX, the UK’s largest event ded­i­cat­ed to UAV prod­ucts, parts, acces­sories and ser­vices.

Tak­ing place from Octo­ber 5th-6th at ExCeL Lon­don, DroneX is designed to inspire, inform and edu­cate, with a focus on new tech­nolo­gies in sec­tors such as com­mer­cial, dis­as­ter relief, emer­gency ser­vices, human­i­tar­i­an aid and the mil­i­tary. The event is also hap­pen­ing at the same time as Helitech Expo, the UK’s largest event for the avi­a­tion indus­try. 

In addi­tion to hav­ing an exhibitor stand for atten­dees to see its pro­to­type at DroneX, Vidyut Jacob, Bell­wether Indus­tries’ Mobil­i­ty Design Direc­tor, will also be deliv­er­ing a 30-minute talk enti­tled ‘Envi­sion­ing the Future of Aer­i­al Mobil­i­ty’, which is on Tues­day in The­atre 4.

He will pro­vide more insight into Bell­wether Indus­tries’ vision and phi­los­o­phy for urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM) and how it is approach­ing the key indus­try chal­lenges. He will be speak­ing from 1.15pm to 1.45pm.

Kai-Tse Lin, co-founder and Chief of Oper­a­tions at Bell­wether Indus­tries, said: “Urban air mobil­i­ty is going to trans­form the way peo­ple trav­el in cities across the world and it’s incred­i­ble to think we’re only a few years away from the first com­mer­cial ser­vices launch­ing.

“The Bell­wether team are real­ly excit­ed to be attend­ing DroneX and we can’t wait to show those attend­ing what we have been work­ing on.”

Bell­wether Indus­tries’ mis­sion is to pro­vide the most com­pat­i­ble UAM solu­tions in cities and has a pres­ence in the UK, Tai­wan, UAE, main­land Chi­na and the USA. It aims to cre­ate a three-dimen­sion­al lifestyle and lead the world towards com­pre­hen­sive urban air mobil­i­ty, which incor­po­rates the air­craft, an air trans­port sys­tem and infra­struc­ture.

Ini­ti­at­ed in 2013, it ini­tial­ly began devel­op­ing a hov­er­craft project known as Gazelle, which was put on dis­play at YODEX, Tapai, Tai­wan, in 2015. In 2018, Bell­wether Indus­tries start­ed work on Project Ante­lope — its ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing vehi­cle known as a Volar.

Volar is defined as a new cat­e­go­ry of pri­vate urban air­craft which has a hid­den propul­sion sys­tem, a very com­pact pro­file, a lift­ing body and the abil­i­ty to take off and land ver­ti­cal­ly. It is being tai­lored for city trav­el with deep con­sid­er­a­tions for safe­ty and envi­ron­men­tal impact. 

Bell­wether Indus­tries has already com­plet­ed mul­ti­ple test flights of its pro­to­type since last year, which mon­i­tored con­trol capa­bil­i­ties, and it plans to bring the first com­mer­cial mod­el to mar­ket by 2028.

Bell­wether Indus­tries will be on stand num­ber 710 dur­ing DroneX. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www.bellwether-industries.com