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Sustainable flight mobility solutions: eVTOL developer Volocopter unveiled VoloConnect

 

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EBACE Connect 2021 novelties: Volocopter unveiled its newest aircraft capable to travel longer distances.
Volocopter’s new urban air mobility aircraft is designed for connecting suburbs to cities.

Volocopter, the pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), unveiled its newest aircraft, VoloConnect, at EBACE Connect 2021.

This electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) is designed to connect suburbs to cities and complements ­the company’s existing family of aircraft for the intra-city mission. VoloConnect’s distinctive hybrid lift
and push design is expected to achieve certification within the next 5 years.

 

VoloConnect carries on Volocopter’s track record of developing high-tech, electric aircraft for the urban mission.

VoloConnect uses a hybrid lift and push design to transport up to four passengers electrically on routes of 100 km at
a speed of 180 km/h, with a top speed of ~250 km/h. The compact aircraft layout, necessary for urban missions, is
naturally stable and highly efficient during forward flight while maintaining a low stall speed. Volocopter’s Munich-
based team of experts, led by Chief Engineer Sebastian Mores, have been working on the aircraft for over two
years and filed several patents for its technology. They are already flying multiple scaled prototypes of VoloConnect
and are quickly progressing towards testing full scale prototypes.

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With the capacity to travel longer distances, VoloConnect joins Volocopter’s aircraft family and extends the company’s UAM ecosystem coverage to the suburbs. The new aircraft will be seamlessly integrated into Volocopter’s existing portfolio of urban air mobility ecosystem solutions: VoloDrone, VoloCity, VoloPort, and the digital platform, VoloIQ.

“VoloConnect embodies the next dimension of our mission to offer affordable, efficient, and sustainable flight mobility solutions for cities around the globe. Leveraging customer insights from our existing VoloCity and VoloDrone, VoloConnect’s capacity to support longer missions and higher payloads serves another strong growing market demand,” says Florian Reuter, Volocopter CEO. “We are confident that this aircraft family, and the years of experience and leading innovation on which it’s founded, will pioneer the way for electric UAM services to launch commercially and internationally.”

Volocopter takes a holistic approach to UAM by developing a full ecosystem that connects the necessary components to offer electric flight in cities. This ecosystem includes partnerships with global leaders such as Aéroports de Paris, Microsoft Azure, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, and many more. Additionally, Volocopter is the only eVTOL developer with a product portfolio of multicopter and fixed wing designs that can be used for passenger and cargo transportation.

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Leaders in innovative technologies shared updates on their advanced air mobility real solutions

EBACE Connect 2021: Advanced Air Mobility Technology is Here Now. During EBACE Connect 2021, leaders in innovative technologies shared updates on advanced air mobility (AAM), electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and electric and hybrid airplanes, while discussing the importance of technology advancements, sustainability, public acceptance and harmonized public policy to the future success of … Read more

Meet the green SE Aeronautics 200 – the super-efficient subsonic jet with significantly fewer emissions

 

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SE Aeronautics’ 100% molded composite aircraft includes revolutionary new breakthroughs like super-efficiency, 500+ PMPG and significantly fewer emissions (80% Less CO2 Emissions).

This super-efficient subsonic jet can carry 264+ passengers at a speed of Mach .9 with a range of 10,560 miles at
500+ PMPG. SE Aeronautic’s new SE200 prototype is tri-wing aircraft with double tail fin and two engines mounted
to the rear.

SE Aeronautics designed 200 series aircraft will be the mid-size passenger aircraft, outperforming every aircraft in its class. Range, speed, payload, safety, block hour cost, PMPG and TMPG will make these planes the most
productive planes ever built, says SE Aeronautics team.

The growth in air transportation has doubled every 15 years, which would bring air traffic to 16 billion passengers
and 400 million tons of cargo for the year 2050. This growth has been unwavering despite many financial and world
crises of this past century. Evident by extremely large order backlogs for Boeing and Airbus produced aircraft.

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The Covid crises will be no different, the world will rebound and flying will return with a vengeance.

When this takes place, SE Aeronautics will be there to change the aviation industry. The poorly designed and manufactured aircraft will be a thing of the past. The SE200 aircraft will reduce CO2 production by 80%-90% per seat kilometer and reduce fuel use by 70%.

“This means we will go from using 100 billion gallons of fuel (2019) to 20 billion gallons of fuel when our airframes are fully implemented. This design will literally outperform every aircraft in its class. We are talking about range, speed, payload, safety, block hour cost, passenger mile per gallon (PMPG), and ton-miles per gallon (TMPG). Not only will we outperform in all these metrics, but we will also be able to build these aircraft in less than half the time it takes to normally build an aircraft of its size. Couple all these attributes with a plane that also has a useful life that is twice as long, 50 years, our plane is THE plane for the twenty-first century.” – SE Aeronautics.

Additionally, as other alternative forms of propulsion systems make their debut, SE Aeronautics airframes will be
best suited to implement those systems. Electric or hydrogen engine systems will work the absolute most efficiently
when using SE Aeronautics’ designed airframe, guaranteed.

Jet engines on wings more easily ingest birds, causing engines to fail. SE engines are mounted in the rear of the
aircraft.

If only one wing engine fails, because they are far apart in relation to the centered tail rudder, the airliner is harder to control, which also makes training difficult and a crash much more likely. SE engines are in parallel, which also enables a final boost in efficiency possible.

To maximize production, builders bolt together large sections called barrels. This is usually where fuselages break
apart in an accident and where people can get badly hurt. SE will build a single piece (monocoque), tough
composite fuselage.

New clean sheet Jets are heavier per seat now than before. SE intends to build a lighter, streamlined airliner that
maximizes L/D to make our airliner the most efficient ever built.

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RM 40-01 Automatic Tourbillon McLaren Speedtail – McLaren and Richard Mille’s latest and most ambitious collaboration to date

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