Five on Friday: Vertical, ZeroAvia and Beta roundup Yves Le Marquand 27 May 25 0 In a must-have for any and all footage of mysterious or extraordinary phenomena, a grainy video appeared last week which appears to show Vertical’s VX4… Read more
Five on Friday: Vertical and Honeywell, Whisper and Wisk roundup Yves Le Marquand 12 May 25 0 With about three years of runway left before a planned type certification of its VX4 eVTOL aircraft, Vertical Aerospace has signed a new long-term agreement with… Read more
Analysis: Vertical share issuance is best short-term raising option news Yves Le Marquand 27 Jan 25 0 Vertical Aerospace’s share issuance is another one to add to the trend of raising follow-on capital we’ve seen from some of the publicly traded eVTOL… Read more
Vertical prices $90m public offering at $6 per unit news Fayaz Hussain 23 Jan 25 0 Vertical Aerospace has announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of $90m through a sophisticated structure which combines ordinary shares and warrants – linked… Read more
Honeywell and NXP Semiconductors expand autonomous flight partnership news Yves Le Marquand 8 Jan 25 0 Honeywell and NXP Semiconductors have expanded their partnership focused on developing products for autonomous flight. Announced at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, the expansion builds… Read more
Vertical flies first piloted thrustborne tests in eVTOL news Yves Le Marquand 8 Jan 25 0 Vertical Aerospace has successfully completed a first set of piloted thrustborne flight manoeuvres in its eVTOL aircraft. The milestone means Vertical’s VX4 aircraft has now… Read more
Verticals partners with Monolith to accelerate testing news Yves Le Marquand 7 Jan 25 0 Vertical Aerospace has began working with artificial intelligence (AI) software provider Monolith to increase its eVTOL testing and simulation programme efficiency. Flight and ground tests… Read more
Skyports breaks ground on UK vertiport development news Yves Le Marquand 13 Dec 24 0 Skyports Infrastructure and Bicester Motion have broken ground on the UK’s first vertiport testbed development. The vertiport is under construction on a plot of 0.42… Read more
Vertical Aerospace announces $50m funding from Mudrick Capital news Yves Le Marquand 25 Nov 24 0 Vertical Aerospace has announced $50m in new funding as part of a transaction worth $180m with Mudrick Capital. The signing of a non-binding term sheet… Read more
Vertical losses rise to $17.1m in first half of 2024 news Fayaz Hussain 20 Sep 24 0 Vertical Aerospace announced financial results for the first half of 2024 wherein it reported a net loss of $17.1m, up 45% year-over-year from $11.7m in… Read more
Vertical completes phase one of piloted testing news Yves Le Marquand 12 Sep 24 0 Vertical Aerospace’s VX4 prototype has completed the first phase of its piloted flight test programme. Test pilots conducted multiple tethered flights and ground runs, across… Read more
Vertical flies piloted tethered test with new VX4 prototype news Yves Le Marquand 26 Jul 24 0 Vertical Aerospace has flown its first tethered piloted flight in its new VX4 prototype aircraft. The flight test took place after the UK Civil Aviation… Read more
Vertical unveils latest eVTOL prototype news Yves Le Marquand 18 Jul 24 0 Vertical Aerospace has unveiled the latest iteration of its full-scale VX4 prototype aircraft. The new prototype offers a 20% increase in the power to weight… Read more
Vertical Aerospace given more control by UK regulator Deep Dive Yves Le Marquand 12 Jul 24 0 This week Vertical Aerospace was granted more control over conducting tasks related to its type certification programme when the UK regulator expanded the scope of… Read more
UK regulator expands Vertical’s design organisation approval news Yves Le Marquand 10 Jul 24 0 The scope of Vertical Aerospace’s design organisation approval (DOA) has been expanded by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The scope extension enables Vertical’s engineers… Read more