New gyrocopter - Tensor 600X - compound gyro and a 6 seater

Subscribe and sign up at Germany’s Fraundorfer Aeronautics started test flights of a prototype two-seat gyrocopter in 2019, with a plan to introduce a six-seat version by 2025. The Donauworth-based company unveiled the Tensor two-seater in May 2019, which it is now preparing for flight testing. Certification – initially as an ultralight aircraft for the owner-flyer and training markets – is targeted for “summer“ 2020. Deliveries are scheduled to begin later that year, says Fraundorfer’s head of sales and marketing, Klaus-Peter Leinauer. The manufacturer’s strategy is to expand the platform’s capability and customer base in stages. Certification as an aerial observation and special mission platform under European Union Aviation Safety Agency regulations is planned for 2022, and approval for a six-seat variant suitable for the air taxi market is scheduled for 2024-2025, says Fraundorfer. At an airspeed as low as 22kt (41km/