“XTI Aerospace Announces MOU with VerdeGo Aero”

XTI Aero­space recent­ly announced a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with VerdeGo Aero, a provider of hybrid-elec­tric propul­sion tech­nol­o­gy for air­craft, reports a press release.

The release states, “XTI is seek­ing opti­mal pow­er­train solu­tions for mil­i­tary and civil­ian mar­ket oppor­tu­ni­ties with­in the unmanned air­craft sys­tems mar­ket seg­ment. Through­out the devel­op­ment of its Tri­Fan 600 air­plane and deriv­a­tives, the com­pa­ny has con­tin­u­al­ly eval­u­at­ed tech­nolo­gies to max­imise the per­for­mance of its air­craft.”

The col­lab­o­ra­tion allows XTI to design vari­ants from the out­set of the agree­ment to ful­ly lever­age the per­for­mance and effi­cien­cy ben­e­fits enabled by such hybrid propul­sion.

Ben­e­fit­ing from the progress VerdeGo has made towards matur­ing its hybrid pow­er­plant pro­grams over the past two years, “both com­pa­nies see poten­tial syn­er­gies and cus­tomer solu­tions,” con­tin­ues the release. 

The MOU agree­ment pro­vides a frame­work to col­lab­o­rate on air­craft mis­sion per­for­mance tar­gets and relat­ed pow­er require­ments. Poten­tial oppor­tu­ni­ties include mil­i­tary and com­mer­cial UAS logis­tics as well as car­go mis­sions where speed, range and VTOL per­for­mance is para­mount.

VerdeGo Aero Hybrid Propul­sion Pow­er­train

Scott Pomeroy, Chair­man and CEO of XTI Aero­space, com­ment­ed, “We are focused on high speed and long range mis­sions with VTOL capa­bil­i­ties. The com­pa­ny believes hybrid-elec­tric pow­er gen­er­a­tion, elec­tric propul­sion, and oth­er emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies will enable XTI to deliv­er supe­ri­or per­for­mance and increased sus­tain­abil­i­ty across a wide range of appli­ca­tions and use cas­es.”

Eric Bartsch, CEO and co-Founder of VerdeGo Aero, added, “We see great poten­tial for high-per­for­mance hybridised ver­sions of the XTI air­craft fam­i­ly that lever­age our port­fo­lio of hybrid pow­er­plants to pro­vide high-speed cruise and VTOL capa­bil­i­ties.”

He con­tin­ued, “Build­ing on the matu­ri­ty of our VH-4T tur­bine-hybrid pow­er­plant and the design and analy­sis work com­plet­ed on the VH‑5 blend­ed tur­bo­fan, VerdeGo will be work­ing with XTI to iden­ti­fy opti­mal com­bi­na­tions of pow­er­train and air­frame for both mil­i­tary and civil­ian mar­kets.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://xtiaerospace.com/

https://verdegoaero.com/

(Images: XTI/VerdeGo)

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