World Premiere: Volocopter is Flying Manned! - Dawn of a Revolution in Urban Mobility

World Premiere: Volocopter is Flying Manned! - Dawn of a Revolution in Urban Mobility

KARLSRUHE, Germany, April 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    The premiere of manned flights with the world's first certified Multicopter, e-volo's
Volocopter VC200, marks the beginning of a new era in urban mobility. The Volocopter is a
personal aerial vehicle that is so easy and safe to fly, literally anyone can command it.
Due to its electric propulsion, it has no tailpipe emissions and is impressively quiet.
For the first time humans' dream of personal flight as a daily routine becomes attainable.
As such it not only offers more widespread use in conventional aircraft domains, but
brings us another step closer to air taxi services and entire transportation systems in
the third dimension.

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    The Volocopter VC200 received the 'permit-to-fly' as an ultralight aircraft from
German aviation authorities in February 2016. In the context of the commenced test program,
e-volo has started to conduct manned flights. The historic world premiere of a flight
with a certified multicopter was made by e-volo managing director Alexander Zosel on March
30th, 2016 on an airfield in Southern Germany.

    Thanks to its innovative flight control, the vertical take-off and landing aircraft
(VTOL) is extremely easy to fly. The Volocopter is piloted one-handedly with a single
joystick and significantly reduces the number one reason for fatal accidents in
conventional helicopters: human error. To demonstrate this feature, Zosel releases his
hand from the joystick to applaud his team during the premiere flight, while the
Volocopter automatically holds its position. A comprehensive redundancy concept
compensates any failure by critical components including the loss of several motors. This
was demonstrated exhaustively during the certification process.

    Sales for the Volocopter shall start in 2018.

    For more information (incl. high-quality footage and pictures at no charge) visit
press.volocopter.com, http://www.youtube.com/user/Volocopter and
http://www.volocopter.com.

    Kathrin Mohr, +49721754000-0, kathrin.mohr@volocopter.com

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