Honeywell and NXP Semiconductors expand autonomous flight partnership

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Yves Le Marquand

8 Jan 25

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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…

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Vertical flies first piloted thrustborne tests in eVTOL

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Yves Le Marquand

8 Jan 25

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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…

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Verticals partners with Monolith to accelerate testing

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Yves Le Marquand

7 Jan 25

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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…

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Skyports breaks ground on UK vertiport development

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Yves Le Marquand

13 Dec 24

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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…

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Vertical Aerospace announces $50m funding from Mudrick Capital

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Yves Le Marquand

25 Nov 24

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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…

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Vertical losses rise to $17.1m in first half of 2024

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Fayaz Hussain

20 Sep 24

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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…

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Vertical completes phase one of piloted testing

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Yves Le Marquand

12 Sep 24

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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…

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Vertical flies piloted tethered test with new VX4 prototype

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Yves Le Marquand

26 Jul 24

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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…

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Vertical unveils latest eVTOL prototype

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Yves Le Marquand

18 Jul 24

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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…

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Vertical Aerospace given more control by UK regulator

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Yves Le Marquand

12 Jul 24

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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…

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UK regulator expands Vertical’s design organisation approval

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Yves Le Marquand

10 Jul 24

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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…

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Vertical Aerospace narrows losses to £20m in 1Q

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Fayaz Hussain

28 May 24

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Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer Vertical Aerospace reported a net operating loss of £20m for the first quarter of 2024 compared to…

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Manufacturing defect caused blade release in Vertical prototype crash, says AAIB

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Yves Le Marquand

3 May 24

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The Vertical Aerospace prototype which was written off in August, 2023 crashed due to an adhesive bond failure in a propeller blade. The Aircraft Accidents…

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Stuart Simpson takes over as Vertical Aerospace CEO

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Yves Le Marquand

1 May 24

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As departing CEO and company founder Stephen Fitzpatrick transitions to the board, Vertical’s chief financial officer Stuart Simpson is taking over the top spot at…

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UK government publishes Future of Flight action plan

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Yves Le Marquand

18 Mar 24

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A new plan released by the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) has set out a roadmap for drones and novel electric aircraft to be flying…

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