CycloTech expands to Germany: A pivotal move towards the future of aviation

CycloRotors
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Munich, 30 January 2025 – CycloTech, a global innovator in aviation propulsion systems, has announced the establishment of a subsidiary in Bavaria, Germany. This strategic expansion marks a significant milestone in the industrial scaling of its revolutionary CycloRotor technology an advanced propulsion system poised to redefine the future of electric flight.

Germany’s aviation industry in turbulence: The rise and fall of air taxis

Volocopter
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Once heralded as a transformative leap for urban mobility, Germany’s air taxi industry is now facing turbulent skies. With two prominent start-ups, Lilium and Volocopter, teetering on the brink of collapse, the dream of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft revolutionizing transport seems further away than ever.

Vertiports and eVTOLs

vertiport
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The strategic alliance between Fraport, a leading global airport operator, and Lilium, an innovative electric air-taxi company, marks a significant step towards revolutionizing regional air mobility. This partnership focuses on developing a commercial network for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, starting with a thorough analysis of the necessary planning and approval steps for implementing such operations at airports.

Germany produces environmentally friendly kerosene

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Produced from hydrogen and carbon dioxide, the aim is to take a bite out of aviation’s ecological footprint. The one thing you can’t put your finger on about synthetic kerosene – which, according to the announcement, will be produced in Germany for the first time in the world – is that it’s cheap.

Germany closer to drone transport

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It’s not just any cargo that Wingcopter’s drone is flying to its target: blood products to save lives. Twenty-six kilometres is the distance between Greifswald and Wolgast, where Wingcopter drones helped with the delivery in the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg.