CoolFly, a developer of personal electric aircraft and eVTOL platforms, has launched Urban, described by the company as the world's first standing-position personal aircraft, at its Global Product Launch event held on 13 August in Hangzhou, China.
The event also introduced CoolFly's Dream series of seated personal aircraft and its self-developed NA80 flight control system. Representatives from aviation organisations, universities, insurance companies and domestic and international dealers attended.
Urban is a fully electric aircraft with an enclosed-propeller propulsion design, built around CoolFly's dual-redundant flight control architecture and triple-redundant inertial measurement units, and is intended to be compact, intuitive to operate, and purpose-built for individual flight.
The Dream series comprises two seated eVTOL models: Dream ST, designed around ultralight aircraft regulatory frameworks in China and the United States with a quick-fold configuration, and Dream Pro, which adds greater payload capacity, longer flight endurance, millimetre-wave obstacle-detection radar, route planning, intelligent obstacle avoidance, a whole-aircraft parachute system and impact-mitigation airbags.
The NA80 flight control system, also unveiled at the event, uses a dual-redundant architecture with three inertial measurement units per flight control unit, providing a common control platform across CoolFly's aircraft lineup.
CoolFly also signed a cooperation agreement with the Zhejiang Institute of Security Technology covering professional talent development and training facilities, alongside strategic insurance partnerships with PICC Property and Casualty and China Pacific Property Insurance, and multiple new domestic and international dealer agreements.
