Vertical Hits Major eVTOL Milestone With Two-Way Flight Written 16 April 2026
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Vertical Aerospace’s VX4 prototype in July, when it announced that the demonstrator had flown untethered for the first time the previous month. | Credit: Vertical Aerospace; Aerospace America–©
Aerotime reports, “Vertical Aerospace has achieved what its CEO Stuart Simpson described as the ‘most significant technical milestone’ in its history after the air taxi developer became the first outside the US to execute a piloted two-way transition flight. On 14 April 2026, at its spiritual home at Cotswold Airport (GBA), Chief Test Pilot Simon Davies successfully switched Vertical Aerospace’s electric vehicle takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from helicopter mode to plane mode and back again.”
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