WAYPOINT: Transition 

This is one more test flight for BETA, and a great step forward for sustainable aviation. Bravo BETA Team

Congratulations! This is an awesome accomplishment. You guys made it look easy.

Congratulations, this is what we have all been waiting to see! Well done Beta team! 🎉

So great to witness, Beta Team congratulations, the Bristow team has always believed in you!

Congratulations! Loved sharing this with my science class today! 🚁✈️🎉

Amazing technical accomplishment, and so inspiring to watch! Electric Aviation made Vermont Strong!!

That was truly a sight to behold. A most memorable R&D milestone to be proud of. Great presentation video, very moving.. Good luck and Godspeed on your future endeavors.🖖

I've flown this beautiful aircraft many times...Only In virtual X-Plane 12 flight simulator mode! Its a truly amazing design, and fulfils so many desires and requirements for EV VTOL aircraft of the future. The transition from vertical take-off/landing, to normal level flight is very well modelled in X-plane, and shows just how useful the real world aircraft, and its offspring will be in the near future, real world, with so many applications. Watching this video, I am so excited and proud of everyone involved in bringing this amazing aircraft to life and flying it, well done all of you!

Congratulations TEAM BETA!! My heart was pounding out of my chest watching this.

Wow!Wow! I had a lump in my throat, i had the same feeling watching the first time man landed on the moon. Your accomplishment is just as important and impressive. Congratulations to all of the Beta organization.

I mean... being transitioning in X-Plane 12 with the Alia for months. Glad the real world caught up haha. All kidding aside... amazing job and truly inspirational.

I'm almost in tears, this is so beautiful.

Congrats team! Special kudos to my Microstrain expats!

Awesome! So cool to see this flight up close, great video!

Great job guys, congratulations to everybody involved! You’ve really done something special.

absolutely wonderful. Brilliant concept, well executed!

Nice job! Great to see this!

Totally awesome... congratulations on all that hard work for such great success..

Well done! Great film.

This is an amazing milestone... Congratulations!!!

This is incredible. Continues a long tradition of innovation and progress in aviation. Great minds can do great things.

Congratulations BETA Team!

Great progress and important step forward! 👍🏼

CONGRATS!!!

World changing! Congratulations

Really nice to see everything come together!

Very cool! Well done.

Very very impressive ! The world has changed.

Congratulations to the team!!

Congratulations!!

Good work Posit!

Amazing 👏 Congratulations 🥳

Congrats! Looks very cool, not sure what the use case is but major achievement nevertheless

CONGRATULATIONS Beta! What an amazing achievement!!!

This is a pretty big deal. Joby did it already but the more companies get their eVTOLs doing the full transition cycle the closer we are to clean quiet fast air mobility.

BEAUTIFUL! Well done team. Go BETA!!

Congrats to all the people involved with this

Congratulations, it was inspiring to watch.

Amazing accomplishment! I can’t wait to see what the future of electric aviation holds. Maybe even seeing this in person

So incredible, congrats to the Beta team! What a moment!

That is absolutely fckn beautiful.

Beautiful transition! Now you need to build redundancy! If one horizontal propeller fails, will it glide?

Congratulations to the entire Beta team! Days like that make the hard work worth it.

Congrats!

Fantastic!

I'm surprised that there is a pilot onboard - these things usually seem to be developed as autonomous vehicles, either due to the risk to an occupant or just lack of payload capacity.

Fly Alia Fly!! 🎉🎉

Great video! Can this plane do a normal takeoff and landing with only the pusher prop?

Congratulations Beta and Alia!

LET'S FRICKIN' GO BETA!!!!!!!!

Looks like the future to me!

Bravo for making actual crewed flights through transition. Unfortunately rare in this investment environment.

Fantastic

Jerry Ricciotti is awesome!

Bravo!

congrats. Can you also just hover, do a true vertical takeoff before starting forward motion?

Monumental

Hurrah!

Do a barrel roll!

A lot of veterans, including myself, hate helicopters. A lot. I mean, hate them. They have killed almost as many as they have saved. BUT, I would deploy in the descendants of this beast. Well done, Gents.

Just like flying a giant DJI drone.

What about bird strike? I wonder how they certify for rotor bust.

Is this new?

How's that Vtol when it had to accelerate/decelerate in ground effect?

Надо пропеллеров больше, тогда грузоподъемность возрастёт!

I love seeing the progress of eVTOL aircraft but seems like they have a long way to go to be practical. This one apparently has the record for range at just over 300 mi and I doubt that is with 45 min reserve as airplanes are usually rated. I fly a Rutan derived canard experimental 4 seat aircraft. It has 1400 mi range @ 200mph with reserve. It gets almost 30 mpg at that speed and cost much less than $100K. I figured if I took the motor out of my Tesla and made it a 2 seat airplane to make room for batteries I would have about 200 mi range without reserve. Batteries have to get an order of magnitude better.

Since this design does not have tilting rotors and the propulsion rotor always turns, the video would be so much better with data displays showing the lift rotor lift (or torque, or power), propulsion rotor thrust (or torque, or power), and wing angle of attack. The transition would be shown much better with that sort of information. As it is, the lift rotors just stop and later restart, giving the impression - undoubtedly incorrect - that the transitions are instantaneous.

Why is there no sound of engines running? :( This is one of the main parameters showing how applicable such devices are in dense urban areas.

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EASA has observed an increase of bird strikes involving civil rotorcraft, elevating the risk of serious or fatal injuries to occupants and substantial damage to rotorcraft. Unlike military helicopter designs, civil helicopters have very little ballistic protection and only 10% of the EU civilian helicopter fleet have been certified with the bird strike requirement CS29.631. Most of the EU civilian helicopter fleet is not designed to be resistant to bird strike.

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What happened On the morning of 9 July 2022, a Bell 206 L-1, registered VH-ZMF departed a private helipad at Cattai, NSW for a private flight. About 9 minutes later, the helicopter impacted terrain about 10 km to the north of the departure point. The helicopter was destroyed, and the pilot, who was the sole occupant, was fatally injured. What the ATSB found The ATSB found that shortly after crossing Dargle Ridge at about 500 ft above the ground and while approaching the Richmond airspace control boundary, a wedgetail eagle impacted the helicopter just below the front left windscreen. It was unlikely that the pilot saw or had time to avoid the wedgetail eagle due to sun glare and a required radio frequency change. The pilot was likely startled and initiated abrupt control inputs leading to the main rotor severing the tail boom. This led to an inflight break-up of the airframe and collision with terrain.

Well done I have been looking forward to this, your test pilot is being a touch too much about the transition. Thousands of smaller SLT's do them every day. But a big thing for a large platform for sure.

Why do test pilots wear overalls? Pure tradition? Superstition? Or do they help contain the stinking mess when the pilot shits himself after a life-or-death close call?

or, yea know, take a plane when you need to go far and take a helicopter when you need to go a short distance? Literally no one needs this.

OK. That's nice. You've just re-invented the Osprey, a 30 year-old technology which the Marines have been using for decades. So what EXACTLY is NEW here??? Where is the breakthrough I don't get it. I'm tired of hype replacing genuine invention. Too much of that in tech these days.

Congratulations!!