Hydrogen Is A Gamechanger For Vertical Flight

In August 2014, the Vertical Flight Society (VFS) held the world’s first public meeting on electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. This helped build the community for the eVTOL Revolution, which has now expanded to include electric conventional- and short-takeoff and landing (eCTOL and eSTOL) aircraft under the umbrella term “advanced air mobility” (AAM).

The title of the meeting was the unwieldy but accurate “Transformative Vertical Flight Concepts Joint Workshop on Enabling New Flight Concepts through Novel Propulsion and Energy Architectures” — shortened to today’s annual Transformative Vertical Flight (TVF) meetings. In this first workshop, many basic concepts were discussed, including battery-electric…