We are used to thinking about vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft as being powered by spinning blades. After all, just like helicopters, they need spinning blades to lift off and move around ...
After the insolvencies of two electric aircraft start-ups, a third German company aims to bring a vertical take-off aircraft to market by 2031. ERC System, based near Munich and founded in 2020, is ...
What this means is that the Valo took off vertically, switched to an aircraft-like mode of operation, and then back to ...