Vertical Aerospace moves second prototype to flight test centre

Vertical Aerospace, designer and developer of the VX4 eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing craft), has moved a step closer to the maiden flight of its second prototype after the partially-built test aircraft was moved to the company’s flight test centre. The facility at Kemble, UK will be the ‘home base for our flight test campaign again this year’ notes Vertical, with the final build and commissioning of the new aircraft (delivered as a fuselage and wing) expected to happen over the coming weeks before it is handed over to the flight test team. Vertical’s first airworthy prototype suffered an