HISTORY MADE! Vertical's VX4 eVTOL Completes First Airport-to-Airport Flight in Europe! (RIAT 2025 Display)

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Witness aviation history! Vertical Aerospace's VX4 prototype just completed the world's first airport-to-airport flight by a full-scale, piloted winged eVTOL in Europe, flying from Cotswold Airport to RAF Fairford! Now on display at RIAT 2025, the world's largest military airshow (18-20 July), this incredible #AviationMilestone marks a significant leap for #ElectricFlight and the #FutureOfAviation. Explore the groundbreaking #VerticalAerospace VX4 and its role in sustainable and #HybridAviation. Get a #pilotview of the future! #vx4 #evtol #electricflight #futureofaviation #verticalaerospace #riat2025 #hybridaviation #SustainableFlight #FlightTest #pilotview #AviationMilestone #HistoryMade #FirstFlight #CotswoldAirport #RAFFairford #Airshow #Innovation #UrbanAirMobility #FlyingCar #GreenAviation #TechInnovation #Aerospace #FlightTest #CleanEnergy #FutureTransport

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00:00This is absolutely a first for us. It's the first time our aircraft's been away from Kemble.

00:04It's the first time we've demonstrated an A to B flight. We've bought the VX4 prototype,

00:10this wonderful aircraft, to Riat at RAF Fairford where it's going to be on static display in front

00:17of around about a quarter of a million people. We took off from Cotswold Airport at Kemble,

00:29it's a really beautiful day. With our chase aircraft providing photo and telemetry support flying across

00:44the Cotswolds over the open countryside. We joined downwind at Fairford and you can see day one of

00:51arrival today, it's really busy on air traffic, you can see that from 10 miles away. There were quite

00:56a lot of enthusiasts outside the wire pointing their cameras upwards and you could almost hear

01:00the what is that? Wheels down. I'm taxiing in to park past all the military aircraft, civil aircraft,

01:09just incredible to be here today. This is kind of a big deal for Riat, the first time they've had an

01:13electric aircraft fly in and they've been really great in enabling this to happen and to help us

01:19show the future of electric aviation. Getting here today has pretty much involved the whole company

01:25from the comms and media team through to the airworthiness team, the CAA themselves, hugely

01:30supportive in getting us here. The battery team, the telemetry team, the whole flight test team to

01:36plan the event then especially the build team and everyone is really pulled together to help us

01:41show the world the VX4 in the wild for the first time.

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