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    The document discusses several vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft concepts, including multi-copters like the E-hang 184 and Volocopter, which were the earliest forms of VTOL. It also mentions that the first air taxi trials using VTOL aircraft will take place in Singapore in 2019. Additional concepts discussed include fixed-wing VTOL hybrids, tilt rotors, tilt jets, tilt wings, and a tilt plane design from the University of Maryland.

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    The document discusses several vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft concepts, including multi-copters like the E-hang 184 and Volocopter, which were the earliest forms of VTOL. It also mentions that the first air taxi trials using VTOL aircraft will take place in Singapore in 2019. Additional concepts discussed include fixed-wing VTOL hybrids, tilt rotors, tilt jets, tilt wings, and a tilt plane design from the University of Maryland.

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    The document discusses several vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft concepts, including multi-copters like the E-hang 184 and Volocopter, which were the earliest forms of VTOL. It also mentions that the first air taxi trials using VTOL aircraft will take place in Singapore in 2019. Additional concepts discussed include fixed-wing VTOL hybrids, tilt rotors, tilt jets, tilt wings, and a tilt plane design from the University of Maryland.

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    The document discusses several vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft concepts, including multi-copters like the E-hang 184 and Volocopter, which were the earliest forms of VTOL. It also mentions that the first air taxi trials using VTOL aircraft will take place in Singapore in 2019. Additional concepts discussed include fixed-wing VTOL hybrids, tilt rotors, tilt jets, tilt wings, and a tilt plane design from the University of Maryland.

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    VTOL

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    Simplest VTOL: multi-copters

    •  E-hang 184
    •  Volocopter
    Today’s news:
    First air taxi trials to take place in Singapore in
    2019

    https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/air-taxi-trials-to-take-place-in-
    World’s first manned flight in an electric multicopter in October 2011

    Fixed-wing VTOL hybrid concepts
    •  Simplest è put the two together
    •  Volans-i
    •  Ideaforge
    Tilt rotor

    •  Wingcopter
    Tilt rotor

    •  “Generic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (GUAV)”


    •  Joby Aviation
    •  VTOL Hexplane
    Tilt rotor/fan

    •  Agusta Westland
    Tilt jets

    •  Lilium
    •  Distributed electric propulsion
    Ultra redundancy
    Concept DEP fan
    ECO-150-16 baseline aircraft
    Lift augmentation by jet thrust
    Thurst vectoring
    A schematic of F-35’s TV nozzle and lifting fan
    Tilt wing
    NASA Tilt DEP Wing
    Tilt plane !
    •  University of Maryland Quadcopter Biplane

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