World's first green helicopter…

e-volo’s Volocopter VC200, the first green helicopter, has made its maiden flight from Karlsruhe on November 17. Safer, simpler and cleaner than normal helicopters, Volocopter is an environmentally friendly and emission-free private helicopter. Instead of one combustion engine, eighteen electrically driven rotors propel it.

With multiple flights lasting several minutes reaching the nearly 22-metre-high ceiling of the Dm-Arena in Karlsruh, including a number of smooth take-offs and landings, the Volocopter concept exceeded all expectations. Based on this model, it will be prepared for series production in the coming years. “There are already numerous requests for the Volocopter from around the world,” said Alexander Zosel, Managing Director of e-volo.

“Rich and incredibly quiet sound, absolutely no noticeable vibrations in the flight, convincing structure with a great, new spring strut landing gear, and an extremely calm rotor plane,” said the evolo Managing Director. The developing team of e-volo knew from the onset that the Volocopter was very easy to fly. Due to elaborate simulations at the Stuttgart University, they already knew that it was much quieter than a helicopter. However, the pleasant low, rich sound and the lower-than-expected noise level caused great cheering among the e-volo team during the first flights.

People were eager to know whether there would be disturbing or even dangerous vibrations in the mechanic structure of the rotor plane. “Such vibrations are a large problem for normal helicopters,” stated e-volo Managing Director Stephan Wolf, adding that the vibrations together with the deafening noise have lead to much discomfort on passenger flights in helicopters.