Vogi 1 eVTOL Transforms Passively

Dean Sigler Electric Powerplants, Sustainable Aviation Leave a Comment

Canadian startup, the Coriolis g Corporation, defies the rules of classification with its Vogi 1 “passively coupled VTOL tiltrotor,” which the company describes as “a tilting quadrotor passively coupled to a winged airframe via a swivel mechanism”. “View the only Continuously Variable Transition VTOL/FW (fixed wing) Aircraft in action.” The Vogi 1 has demonstrated a novel design solution to achieve the maneuverability and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities of a traditional quadcopter with the efficiency of a traditional winged aircraft.  Its design allows passive transition from vertical flight or hovering to winged horizontal flight.  It does so without the benefit of algorithms or triple-redundancy controllers.  Coriolis g explains, “Without any active logic, the rotors pivot and swing from parallel to the ground to perpendicular, located above and below the wing.”  Note its ability to push backwards from a vertical dive at about the 1:20 point in the video. An on-board camera view captures a close-up of what’s happening, but …