The newest VTOL concept just hit the Heli-Expo in Dallas and it’s impressive. For the first time ever, Textron’s subsidiary company Bell Helicopter is developing a rotorcraft called the FCX-001. With a hybrid propulsion system and an airframe built from sustainable materials, the Bell FCX-001 is poised to revolutionize the aeronautics industry.

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If you can remember the military warplanes from the future, a.k.a. Skynet, in the movie Terminator, then it’s easy to imagine Urban Aeronautics’ AirMule – an AAV (Autonomous Aerial Vehicle) designed “to get people out of dangerous battlefields without endangering the pilot or crew.”

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