BRIC Team reports: Deep-tech aerospace company BluJ Aerospace, focused on the vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) space, has unveiled the Gen #2 prototype aircraft.Developed on VANTIS platform-based architecture and designed to scale across different VTOL variants spanning urban and regional transportation, with passenger mobility as the long-term destination, Gen #2 is the outcome of four years of in-house research and development.It follows Gen #1, the company’s technology demonstrator and India’s first public flight demonstration of a 500 kg class eVTOL aircraft. Gen #2 is now in active flight testing and makes BluJ as the closest-to-commercialisation heavy-payload aerial logistics company in India, the Hyderabad-based company said.
BluJ Aerospace has unveiled the Gen #2 prototype aircraft. | Photo gned for an active payload target of 200 kg, operates under a 500 kg maximum take-off weight, and uses a lift plus cruise configuration. Fully battery-powered, it takes the platform from technology demonstrator to operational aircraft.
Background
It is now being used for early customer pilots, payload testing, and real-world logistics mission evaluations, BluJ said.“The next major shift in aviation is the move from single product programmes to platform based architectures. Advanced Air Mobility will need adaptable architectures that scale across missions, payloads and customer use cases. That is the advantage VANTIS gives BluJ,” founder and CEO Amar Sri Vatsavaya said.The company’s commercial pipeline spans infrastructure logistics, express cargo, energy, airports and defence.
Key facts
- Gen #2 is now in active flight testing and makes BluJ as the closest-to-commercialisation heavy-payload aerial logistics company in India, the Hyderabad-based company said.
- BluJ Aerospace has unveiled the Gen #2 prototype aircraft.
- | Photo gned for an active payload target of 200 kg, operates under a 500 kg maximum take-off weight, and uses a lift plus cruise configuration.
What this means
It has completed a successful pilot deployment with a leading power sector PSU for infrastructure logistics.
