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Tier 1 Engineering’s Electric e-R44 Makes First Cross-Country Flight

Tier 1 Engineering’s Electric e-R44 Makes First Cross-Country Flight

  • 08 Nov 2022 08:25 AM
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On Oct. 29, Tier 1 Engineering, in collaboration with Lung Biotechnology PBC, invited the Vertical Flight Society to the scenic Coachella Valley of California to witness the world’s first all-electric cross-country helicopter flight.

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Tier 1 Engineering Pioneers Electric e-R44

Tier 1 Engineering Pioneers Electric e-R44

  • 26 Jun 2022 07:54 AM
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The battery-electric motor STC retrofit of the popular Robinson R44 offers a low-cost, low-risk path to sustainable vertical flight.

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Tier 1 Engineering Flies magniX-Powered e-R44 Electric Helicopter for First Time

Tier 1 Engineering Flies magniX-Powered e-R44 Electric Helicopter for First Time

  • 07 Jun 2022 02:30 PM
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The electric helicopter revolution moved a big step closer to reality on June 4 with the first flight of Tier 1 Engineering’s third-generation e-R44 powered by a magniX magni250 "electric engine."

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Tier 1 Teams with magniX for New e-R44

Tier 1 Teams with magniX for New e-R44

  • 20 Dec 2021 11:57 AM
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Tier 1 Engineering is one of the pioneers of electric vertical flight and the only company in the world that’s been regularly flying a piloted electric helicopter since 2016 as part of its development program.

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Tier 1 Engineering Reveals its Second Battery-Electric Robinson R44 Helicopter

Tier 1 Engineering Reveals its Second Battery-Electric Robinson R44 Helicopter

  • 15 Jul 2021 09:09 AM
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For the past five years, Tier 1 Engineering of Santa Ana, California, has been flight-testing and refining an electric-powered version of the Robinson R44 — the world’s best-selling general aviation helicopter for the past 22 years — with nearly 7,500 delivered.

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Eco Helicopters Coming to LA

Eco Helicopters Coming to LA

  • 28 Oct 2020 10:39 PM
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Newly founded Eco Helicopters announced plans to start an on-demand UAM service in early 2021.

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Electric VTOL for Organs on Demand

Electric VTOL for Organs on Demand

  • 25 Feb 2019 02:56 PM
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For many entrants in the race to develop electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the speculative air taxi market is the prize at the end of the finish line — one that could someday yield orders for thousands of aircraft to ferry millions of passengers around congested cities. However, with numerous regulatory and social barriers standing in the way of that market — on top of the very real technological challenges associated with building and flying eVTOL aircraft — this type of on-demand urban air mobility (UAM) could take many years to come to fruition.

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