AutoFlight completes autonomous formation flight with five eVTOL aircraft
AutoFlight has executed a test flight involving five electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft flying in a coordinated autonomous formation.
The flight involved a mix of aircraft models, featuring one 5-tonne V5000 and four 2-tonne eVTOL units. The formation covered a distance of 133 kilometers over a 47-minute duration, operating entirely through automated systems.
This demonstration serves to test the limits of automated flight control and spatial separation technologies in multi-vehicle operations. By coordinating various aircraft types simultaneously, the company aims to validate the software architecture required for high-density aerial traffic management.
This achievement follows ongoing industry efforts to transition autonomous aerial operations from single-vehicle testing to fleet-based systems. Future regulatory frameworks for air mobility will likely rely on such validation data to define safety standards for autonomous logistics and passenger transport.