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Sustainable flight mobility solutions: eVTOL developer Volocopter unveiled VoloConnect

May 20, 2021May 19, 2021 by Editorial Team

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.

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.

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

May 19, 2021 by Editorial Team

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

Experiencing what Urban Air Mobility of tomorrow will feel like

November 4, 2019October 31, 2019 by Editorial Team

Never before have people been this close to experiencing what Urban Air Mobility of tomorrow will feel like. A number of companies around the world are building urban air mobility businesses with the aim to bring affordable air taxi services to megacities worldwide. With the VoloCity, Volocopter, a pioneer in Urban Air Mobility … Read more

Currently in development: Meet the new flock of VTOL’s that want to put you in the seat of a flying vehicle

November 1, 2018October 24, 2018 by Editorial Team

Have a look at some of the flying vehicles that someday could carry passengers over traffic. The interest in the vertical takeoff and landing (commonly known as VTOL) aircrafts shows exponential growth and the worldwide demand of planes that don’t need runways will continue to rise, and so will the supply. But the era of … Read more

The Airbus Group’s Project Vahana flying car concept

January 24, 2017 by Editorial Team

The race for urban air mobility is on. For the Airbus Group the topic of autonomous flying is picking up speed. When a Volocopter from e-volo lifted off with a person on board a few months ago, it was a first for so-called multicopters. In June, the Chinese company Ehang obtained authorisation to test their … Read more

Fly the green way with Volocopter

March 8, 2016March 8, 2016 by Editorial Team

A new two-seat e-multicopter makes a revolutionary step in transportation.

The Volocopter VC200 redefines the helicopter. Learning to pilot vertical takeoff and landing now requires fewer costly and time consuming flying lessons. Volocopter revolutionary e-multicopter will provide clean, energy-efficient transportation.

The Volocopter combines the joy of flying with the highest levels of safety. And not only that – thanks to its reduced mechanics it is low maintenance and extremely easy to operate.

“The pilot merely has to command direction via a joystick and the 2-seater, ultralight aircraft glides into the desired position. In this process our comprehensive redundancy concept ensures a level of safety that immediately compensates a failure of the drive units and forgives a large number of flying errors. Moreover, we have already developed the prototypes of the VC200 with environmentally-friendly rechargeable battery technology,” said Volocopter’s team.

The revolutionary safety & propulsion system of the Volocopter will serve as a platform for additional aviation systems in the future. It is the perfect platform for both vertical takeoff manned aircraft and heavy-duty drones. The flight concept of the Volocopter facilitates piloted, remote-controlled or even completely autonomous air operations. This creates the potential for many diverse applications.

The modular flight systems can be developed in various sizes. Depending on client’s requirements, a purely electric or hybrid form of propulsion can be used to power the aircraft.

The Volocopter can be operated with a pilot, using remote controls or completely autonomously. It allows the Volocopter to serve a broad range of purposes and solve many unique problems like mobility concept for transporting people/mass transit, platform for physical measurement devices, autonomous farming of fields in the precision agriculture sector, yacht tender, pleasure rides for amusement, recreation or sightseeing, air-taxi and so on.