160km / h, 1 hour flight
Tetra Aviation (Bunkyo -ku, Tokyo, President Yutaka Nakai) will start reserving the latest aircraft "TETRA MK -5" in the United States in the United States at the end of July.We expect delivery in 2022.MK -5 will be announced at the EAA Air Venture Ochukosh 2021, an exhibition, which will open in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, on the 21st of the same month.
The company is developing an electric vertical detachment landing aircraft (EVTOL), which is classified as a flying car from the University of Tokyo.The MK -5 is a load of 90 kilograms, the sailing time is 1 hour, the speed is 160 km / h, and the price is about 40 million yen.
The conventional model was a small, short flight time and distance due to the specifications that the international aircraft development international competition "GOFLY" supported by the US Boeing, which was supported by the international aircraft development "GOFLY".MK -5 greatly changes the design with emphasis on practicality.
Piloting requires a private aircraft license, but in the United States, 200,000 licenses have a high market.
The exhibition to announce the product is sponsored by the US EAA (experimental aircraft association), and is a place for new products such as light airplanes and helicopters.
Tetra Aviation obtained a test flight permission in the United States for the first time in a Japanese company in February 2008.In the same year, he won the Plat and Whitney Discer Award for destructive innovators in the United States.
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun June 24, 2021