VC1 Test Flight 2011 – AERO 2012 Lindbergh Prize for Innovation
For the fourth consecutive year at AirVenture, the UW-Oshkosh Business Success Center is organizing AeroInnovate, which highlights new technologies, entrepreneurs, emerging companies, and investment trends.
And this year it has partnered up with the Lindbergh Foundation’s Aviation Green Alliance to host a variety of forums and exhibits as part of the two expanded Innovation Hangars – North (formerly the Children’s Activity Hangar) and South – located at the north end of the grounds between the Homebuilders Hangar and Homebuilders Headquarters.
At Innovation Hangar South, you will find several exhibits showcasing companies that are at the cutting edge of aviation innovation, including Makani Power, MakerPlane, Engineered Propulsion Systems, Swift Fuels, e-volo, Synergy Aircraft, and Brandt Innovative Technologies, plus others to be added.
Two NASA elements will also be located in South – Commercial Space Transportation and its partners (SpaceX, Sierra Nevada, etc.) as well as the Curiosity team that will see its latest rover land on Mars on August 5. Limited spots are still available to display your new technology; if interested or for more information, contact Meridith Jaeger at jaegerm@uwosh.edu. More…>>
Come visit us at AirVenture at Oshkosh/USA on July 23-29, 2012.
There you can see our VC2 Volocopter. VC2 is the successor of the VC1 – the worldwide first Volocopter. With the VC1, the first manned flight world-wide with a purely electrically powered, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft succeeded on the 21st October 2011.
The VC2 is, like the VC1 made of aluminum, but much stronger and lighter. With the VC2 we will start in September 2012 a lot of manned test flights. All the developments in the field of safety techniques, electric motors, steering controls and BMU (Batterie Management Unit) we will extensively test.
Together with a network of notable partners from the fields of research and industry, e-volo will press ahead with the development of the technology for the volocopter during the next years.
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The aim of the collaboration is a two-seater volocopter which complies with regulations, and is based on the concept study of the VC Evolution 2P with the following aircraft performance:
• a speed of over 54 kn (100 km/h)
• a minimum flight altitude of 6500 ft
• a take-off weight of 450 kg
• more than one hour flight time
For the development phase a two-year flight testing programme in collaboration with the LBA (German Federal Aviation Office) and the DULV (German Ultralight Aircraft Association) for an own aeronautical classification “Volocopter” is in the pipeline. Among other things, autonomous test flights over uninhabited areas for days on end are planned in order to test and demonstrate the reliability of the electronic steering and the diverse safety concepts in an uninterrupted flight.
You will find us at the Innovation Hangar Alpha.
