Friday, January 25, 2019

Boeing Passenger Air Vehicle has made its first "flight"

Shown by the FAA as an Aurora Pegusus, N83AU is in fact Boeing's new Autonomous eVTOL (Electronic Vertical Takeoff) PAV (Passenger Air Vehicle) which made its first flight on 22 January 2019 from Manassas, VA. Aurora Flight Sciences is already well known for its solar powered Odysseus aircraft and in November 2017 was purchased by Boeing.

The following nine development aircraft are currently registered to Aurora:

N21AU Pilatus PC-12/45 606 15.03.05
N49AU Diamond DA 42 MNG 42.008 23.03.10
N51AU Diamond DA 42 MNG 42.MN004 05.05.10
N56AU Diamond DA 42 MNG 42.MN039 02.10.15
N83AU Aurora Pegasus (Boeing PAV) AU-083 02.05.18
N94AU Aurora Odysseus AU-094 06.07.17
N98AU Aurora Odysseus AU-098 28.09.17
N99AU Aurora Odysseus AU-099 28.09.17
N666QB Aurora FW20 AS0001 13.04.16

1 comment:

WBC2window said...

Noticed from film of the event it was a lift off-hover-land flight, no attempt to move forward (driver prop not engaged).