Watch Video: “FlyNow Aviation’s eCopter Takes Flight”

Fly­Now Avi­a­tion has achieved an impor­tant mile­stone in the devel­op­ment of its eCopter fam­i­ly, reports a press release. A few weeks back, the elec­tric craft’s first unteth­ered tri­al flights were suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed at a test­ing site in East­ern Aus­tria. 

From the eCopter’s first flight tests in 2021, two years lat­er exten­sive teth­ered flight test­ing were con­duct­ed at Salzburg Air­port. These were cru­cial for sys­tem val­i­da­tion and allowed the com­pa­ny to col­lect valu­able data and train the flight con­trol com­put­er. 

Yvonne Win­ter, co-Founder and COO of Fly­Now, enthused, “The suc­cess­ful unteth­ered flight is not just a tech­ni­cal achieve­ment, it’s vis­i­ble proof that our vision works.” Adding, “We focus on reduc­ing com­plex­i­ty and max­imis­ing safe­ty — prin­ci­ples that are essen­tial for scal­able, sus­tain­able air trans­port.”

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These lat­est tri­als are focus­ing on gath­er­ing exten­sive flight data under real-world con­di­tions, that include advanc­ing the craft toward full cer­ti­fi­ca­tion after achiev­ing in 2022 the Spe­cif­ic Cat­e­go­ry SAIL 11. It is now on its way towards SAIL IV which enables com­mer­cial car­go trans­porta­tion by 2027, fol­lowed by pas­sen­ger flights.

The company’s patent­ed, counter-rotat­ing rotor tech­nol­o­gy and mod­u­lar design ensures:-

: Low noise emis­sions (only 55 dB(A) at 150m alti­tude, com­pa­ra­ble to the sound lev­el of a dish­wash­er).

: Excep­tion­al effi­cien­cy and min­i­mal ener­gy con­sump­tion (30 kWh per 100 km).

: Mar­ket-lead­ing afford­abil­i­ty, with up to 10x low­er pro­duc­tion costs com­pared to com­peti­tors, mak­ing a flight on the eCopter as afford­able as a reg­u­lar taxi trip.

Win­ter con­tin­ued,  “Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty is poised to become a trans­for­ma­tive force in glob­al infra­struc­ture. The Sky Alliance for Auto­mat­ed Air Mobil­i­ty (SALAAM.earth), a strate­gic part­ner­ship between Fly­Now Avi­a­tion and Sky­roads along­side oth­er aligned mem­bers, intro­duces a prac­ti­cal mod­el: Auto­mat­ed Air Mobil­i­ty that inte­grates AI into safe, ana­logue, sus­tain­able trans­port sys­tems.”

The eCopter fam­i­ly includes a one and two-seater craft for per­son­al trans­porta­tion; a car­go ver­sion with a 200 kg pay­load capa­ble of car­ry­ing a stan­dard Euro pal­let; as well as ded­i­cat­ed fire­fight­ing and res­cue mod­els, offer­ing max­i­mum flex­i­bil­i­ty for diverse urban and region­al appli­ca­tions. 

Mid­dle East: Inter­view with Fly­Now co-Founder, Yvonne Win­ter 

Fly­Now believes that its abil­i­ty to oper­ate large fleets prof­itably, cou­pled with rapid cer­ti­fi­ca­tion readi­ness, posi­tions the com­pa­ny as a leader in the rapid­ly evolv­ing urban air mobil­i­ty mar­ket. 

For more infor­ma­tion

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

(Top image: Fly­Now eCopter)

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