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SINGAPORE, Aug 26 \u2014 Two electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developed and built in Singapore have reportedly completed their first phase of flight tests in Cochstedt, Germany.<\/p>\n
The Straits Times<\/em> reported that the 8m- and 3m-wingspan prototypes were produced by more than 20 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) students and alumni together with professor James Wang, and are research demonstrators not currently designed to carry passengers.<\/p>\n During two and a half\u00a0weeks of testing in July, the smaller aircraft reportedly\u00a0recorded nearly two hours of flight time across 17 flights, while the larger model flew for a combined 43 minutes over 20 flights.<\/p>\n The 8m prototype reached an altitude of 92m, while the smaller aircraft climbed to 60m and attained a speed of about 120km\/h.<\/p>\n The tests were conducted in a 1.2km by 2.4km flight area at the German Aerospace Centre, which NTU said offered more open space than was available for such testing in Singapore.<\/p>\n The larger prototype subsequently experienced a hard landing and is being shipped back to Singapore after the team was unable to repair it in time to assess its forward-propulsion system.<\/p>\n The team has yet to obtain Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore certification to operate the aircraft locally, although it has conducted tethered tests at the former Kranji Racecourse.<\/p>\n Wang said further work would focus on autonomous flight, range, battery capacity and the possible use of hydrogen, with future plans including a five-person aircraft with a 14m wingspan and a smaller cargo model.<\/p>\n According to the report, the project has received S$25 million (RM79 million) in government funding, while Wang estimated that another S$975 million would be needed to begin commercial operations, which he said could happen by 2035.<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n SINGAPORE, Aug 26 \u2014 Two electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developed and built in Singapore have reportedly completed their first phase of flight…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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