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Agility Prime Looks Toward Implementing eVTOLs in Air Force Operations in FY ’23

Kelsey Reichmann

Friday, September 17th, 2021

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Agility Prime Looks Toward Implementing eVTOLs in Air Force Operations in FY ’23

U.S. Air Force leadership watched a manned demonstration of LIFT Aircraft’s single-seat HEXA, one of fifteen companies contracted through Agility Prime’s Air Race to Certification. (Kenneth Swartz / eVTOL.news

The Air Force’s Agility Prime program launched in May of 2020 as a technology accelerator for electric air taxis. A little over a year later, the program looks toward how these bespoke aircraft could be implemented in Air Force operations. During a panel discussion with the Vertical Flight Society on Sept. 15, Lt. Col. Tom Meagher, Division Chief of AFWERX Prime for the Air Force, said the service could use electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for transportation, search…

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