[Farnborough International Airshow FIA 2022] Vertical Aerospace - VX4

Hello, I’m Andrew Macmillan. I’m the chief strategy officer for Vertical Aerospace.
We’re here at the Farnborough air show and what we’re showing here is the VX4,

which is Vertical’s all-electric aircraft.
So we’re making travel cleaner and greener we’re making it quieter and we’re making it much safer.

The VX4 takes off vertically and then flies horizontally.

We have eight propellers on the wings which allow the aircraft to take off.

And then when it turns horizontally these front propellers tilt forward and the back propellers stow and then it flies on the wing.

And that allows us to fly about 160 kilometers 100 miles at about 150 kilometers an hour.

So that means a trip of maybe 20-30 minutes which could take you distances,

if you think of London, such as from here at Farnborough down to Brighton or to Cambridge or to Bristol or indeed into Central London.

If I think of some of the other places in the world we’re going to fly which include Japan,

it would allow us for example to fly from the 2025 Osaka expo site at Umeshima all the way to Kansai international airport, Or to to Nara or to Kyoto, or to Kobe.

Vertical has customers all around the world we’ve  sold 1400 of these aircraft that’s about 5.6 billion us dollars worth of aircraft all around the world.

Our customers include Japan airlines, Marubeni in japan, also the world’s biggest airline american airlines,

who signed a deal with us only last week to put the first money down to have the VX4 delivered to them.

Also airlines like Virgin atlantic here in the UK or Air asia in southeast asia.

We’re aiming to have this aircraft certified by the safety regulators all around the world, starting here in Britain in the UK.

But then validating that for example with the  japanese government JCAB with the FAA in the US.

We aim to do that by 2025.

This aircraft is going to be much safer than a helicopter.
It’s going to be as safe as a standard aeroplane a  Boeing or an Airbus airplane.

In fact it’ll be one of the safest ways you can travel.
Why is it so safe?

Well partly because it’s got the eight propellers and they’re all electric.
So there’s much less that can break compared to a helicopter.

And also because of the wing, and the wing allows you to glide to a safe landing anywhere.