Middle East: “FlyNow to Exhibit eCopter in Riyadh”

Fly­Now Avi­a­tion under its sub­sidiary, Fly­Now Ara­bia, is to show­case its eCopter eVTOL at the Sep­tem­ber Sau­di Drone Exhi­bi­tion in Riyadh, reports a press release. 

https://sadex-sa.com/

This fol­lows a series of suc­cess­ful unteth­ered flight tests of the company’s air­craft: A mod­u­lar, ful­ly elec­tric eVTOL, designed for per­son­al and car­go trans­porta­tion, as well as fire­fight­ing and mede­vac mis­sions.

Aus­tria-based Fly­Now estab­lished its sub­sidiary last year in Riyadh, “as part of a long-term strat­e­gy to serve the Mid­dle East­ern mar­ket,” explains the release. “The com­pa­ny will set up a pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty in the King­dom, with future Sau­di-made eCopters serv­ing both domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al mar­kets.” 

Lat­er this year, align­ing with the Kingdom’s vision for sus­tain­able, high-tech mobil­i­ty solu­tions, Fly­Now is to con­duct sand­box flights in Sau­di Ara­bia as part of a joint pilot project with local and inter­na­tion­al par­tic­i­pants, aimed at devel­op­ing and demon­strat­ing the safe inte­gra­tion of eVTOL oper­a­tions in low-alti­tude air­space.

FlyNow’s full-scale eCopter pro­to­type will be on dis­play at the Exhi­bi­tion (Sep­tem­ber 1st-3rd), offer­ing atten­dees a close-up look at the craft’s mod­u­lar and func­tion­al design. The pub­lic will be able to also sit inside the craft and explore the inte­ri­or lay­out, designed for one pas­sen­ger. 

Con­struct­ed from the same light­weight car­bon fibre mate­ri­als used in the final air­craft, the pro­to­type reflects FlyNow’s focus on safe­ty, sim­plic­i­ty and cost-effi­cien­cy. 

The release con­tin­ues, “The Fly­Now booth will also fea­ture an inter­ac­tive vir­tu­al real­i­ty sim­u­la­tion, devel­oped in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Fal­con­Viz, a Sau­di-based leader in UAV-pow­ered asset digi­ti­sa­tion and 3D map­ping.”

It con­tin­ues, “Using a VR head­set, atten­dees can dis­cov­er what it feels like to fly in the eCopter while gain­ing a real­is­tic impres­sion of the cab­in, flight behav­iour and over­all pas­sen­ger expe­ri­ence.”

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Yvonne Win­ter, CEO of Fly­Now Ara­bia and Pres­i­dent of Sky Alliance for Auto­mat­ed Air Mobil­i­ty (SALAAM.earth), will join in a pan­el dis­cus­sion on the exhi­bi­tion main stage (Sep­tem­ber 2nd), shar­ing insights about the future of urban air mobil­i­ty and the steps need­ed to inte­grate eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy in to the region’s trans­porta­tion ecosys­tem. The dis­cus­sion is enti­tled ‘How to Unlock the Poten­tial of the Low Alti­tude Econ­o­my for the King­dom.’ The Pan­el Mod­er­a­tor is Dr. James Mor­gan.

Mean­while, Fly­Now is set­ting up an assem­bly plant in the King­dom dur­ing 2027, with a com­mer­cial launch planned at the Riyadh Expo in 2030.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.flynow-aviation.com/

https://www.falconviz.com

(Top image: Fly­Now Avi­a­tion eCopter)

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