CycloTech’s BlackBird Demonstrator “Completes Successful Maiden Flight” 

The world’s first air­craft with six CycloRo­tors has com­plet­ed a suc­cess­ful maid­en flight, reports a press release. The Aus­tri­an-based com­pa­ny, CycloTech, and its Black­bird demon­stra­tor eVTOL air­craft, achieved this accom­plish­ment on March 27th, just eleven months after first assem­bling the craft.

The release explains, “The Black­Bird show­cas­es a com­plete­ly new air­craft con­fig­u­ra­tion, equipped with six advanced 7th gen­er­a­tion CycloRo­tors, two more than in any pre­vi­ous con­cepts and arranged in an unprece­dent­ed way to ful­ly lever­age the 360° thrust vec­tor­ing capa­bil­i­ties.”

It con­tin­ues, “This unique set up allows for ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing, hov­er­ing with a pitch angle, mid-air brak­ing, par­al­lel park­ing, and pre­ci­sion land­ing even in adverse weath­er con­di­tions.” 

Tahsin Kart, CTO of CycloTech, remarked, “The Black­Bird is more than a demon­stra­tor. It’s a fly­ing test­bed for the future of avi­a­tion. To see it take flight in such a short time is a tes­ta­ment to our team’s inno­va­tion and spir­it.” 

CycloTech Presents: “The Black­Bird Demon­stra­tor!” 

After the project began in April 2024, the team then com­plet­ed the assem­bly and pro­ceed­ed with exten­sive ground test­ing. They ensured that all sys­tems includ­ing bat­tery, propul­sion, flight con­trols, soft­ware, and avion­ics were func­tion­ing as expect­ed and ready for flight test­ing. 

Kart con­tin­ued, “Each mile­stone brought us clos­er to lift-off and the pace at which we moved is unprece­dent­ed for such a com­plex air­craft.” 

Last month, the 340kg Black­Bird took to the skies, achiev­ing lift-off and prov­ing the unique­ness of CycloTech’s propul­sion tech­nol­o­gy, the 360° thrust vec­tor­ing CycloRo­tor.

Mar­cus Bauer, CEO of CycloTech, com­ment­ed, “We’re redefin­ing what’s pos­si­ble in ver­ti­cal flight, pio­neer­ing the future with our ground­break­ing propul­sion tech­nol­o­gy to open the skies for a new gen­er­a­tion in avi­a­tion.”

Fol­low­ing the maid­en flight, CycloTech is now enter­ing an exten­sive flight test pro­gram to ful­ly explore the poten­tial of its rev­o­lu­tion­ary propul­sion sys­tem. The com­pa­ny aims to show­case the abil­i­ty of the CycloRo­tors to cre­ate more com­pact, manoeu­vrable and com­fort­able eVTOL air­craft. 

For more infor­ma­tion

www.cyclotech.at

(Images: CycloTech) 

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