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Vertical Mag • Vertical Mag; December

Rotorcraft 2025: safety wake‑ups, regulatory pressure and rapid design progress

2025 exposed hard lessons in rotorcraft safety and pushed renewed regulatory scrutiny while also delivering marked technical advances across helicopters, tiltrotors and eVTOLs. The mix of incidents, policy momentum and prototype-to-production steps is reshaping procurement, certification and operational planning.

2025-12-30T06:07:38.413521-08:00
eVTOL   Asia-Pacific (APAC)  
Urban Air Mobility News • Philip Butterworth-Hayes

EHang completes first public flight of long-range autonomous VT-35 eVTOL in Hefei

By Urban Air Mobility News: ![69527893c878f](https://www.urbanairmobilitynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/69527893c878f-678x381.jpg) EHang has announced that it has successfully completed the first public flight of its next-generation long-range, compound-wing, autonomous passenger eVTOL VT-35 at Feidong Bailong Airport in Hefei, Anhui Province.

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2025-12-29T11:48:11.485040-08:00