Confidential eVTOL Prototype
Axalp Technologies supported a large European company to develop, build, and test a full-sized, two-passenger electric vertical takeoff vehicle. (eVTOL)
Making the plans
Collaborative design effort
For this project, the Axalp Technologies team worked side-by-side with an engineering team at our customer. Each company led certain engineering areas, but with an over-arching common goal.
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Into the Air
Airframe Design & Analysis
One of the task areas where Axalp Technologies took the lead as in airframe design and analysis. The vehicle in question was a unique eVTOL with rotors embedded in the wing surface, presenting many interesting design challenges. Axalp personnel led the airframe design activities as well as fabrication of composite parts and assembly of the airframe.
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Finding the way
GNC and Flight Control
Axalp Technologies was also the lead team for fully developing the flight control system for this eVTOL aircraft, including architecture and GNC software. As in many eVTOL aircraft, the flight control system was complex - driven by the requirements to be able to transition from vertical to horizontal flight.
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Making it Fly
Integration and Flight Test
Axalp Technologies worked together with the customer to conduct extensive system ground testing, before culminating in a successful flight test campaign, including demonstration flights in front of the customer's group-level board of directors.
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