Expertise: Air and Space
Founded: 2011
Team: 30
HQ: Bruchsal
Management: Florian Reuter (CEO), Jan-Hendrik Boelens (CTO), Stephan Wolf (Co-Founder), Alex Zosel (Co-Founder)
Volocopter GmbH is the global leader in the development of vertically launching, fully electrical air taxis. The technical platform is extremely flexible and permits piloted, remote controlled and fully autonomous flight. In addition, the unique design offers a huge degree of safety based on the high redundancy of all critical components. The company’s stated objective is to make every human’s dream of flying come true and to help modern cities resolve their increasing mobility issues. Their Volocopter aircraft is designed for flying in cities -offering high safety, an extremely quiet and stable flight. In the future people will be able to book Volocopters on demand on their smartphone.
Picture 1: historic first flight; picture 2: first manned flight.
As early as 2011 the company earned its entry into the history of aviation through the manned flight of the world’s first purely electrical multicopter. Since then the young enterprise has set new milestones: In 2016 Volocopter was granted provisional licensing for a two seater Volocopter by the German aviation authority and in 2017 the aviation start-up entered into an agreement with RTA Dubai over the global premiere of an autonomously flying air taxi.
Impressions
Image source: Volocopter and Nikolay Kazakov.
Image source: Nikolay Kazakov.
Contact:
Im Zeiloch 20
76646 Bruchsal
Germany
www.volocopter.com
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