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Air Force Launches Prototype Test-Flight Campaign for Transformative Vertical Flight

Air Force Launches Prototype Test-Flight Campaign for Transformative Vertical Flight
Joby Aviation is considered one of the commercial leaders in development of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, which the Air Force is studying through Agility Prime. (Joby Aviation)

Agility Prime, the Air Force’s exploratory transformative vertical flight program, released an Area of Interest (AOI) effort to work with commercial developers of VTOL aircraft, resulting in a prototype test report based on a flight test campaign. Following the delivery of that report, the government may grant initial airworthiness authorization to successful participants, with plans to achieve initial operating capability for new VTOL aircraft by fiscal year 2023. The AOI, titled “Air Race to Certification,” seeks prototype and market information…

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