AirVenture 2021: Volocopter Flies At Oshkosh - AVweb

Volocopter has been tentatively demonstrating its multi-rotor urban air mobility aircraft for a couple of years, but this year, it showed up and flew at Oshkosh for the first time. AVweb talked to Florian Reuter about where Volocopter development stands.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/multimedia/airventure-2021-volocopter-flies-at-oshkosh

Will it auto rotate?

Short answer: No. But multiple batteries and multiple motors would offer some options for redundancy as long as there is enough margin in the overall power/thrust budget.

Why not go hybrid?