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Featured In This Issue:
- Commentary: "All in for FVL"
- Washington Report
- Leadership Moves
- Industry Briefs
- FVL Accelerates
- The King of Heavy Lift: The Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion
- 300+ Lightning IIs and Counting!
- Skyworks Global: Advantageous Autorotation (pdf)
- Kitty Hawk Enters Service
- Electric VTOL News™
- Canada Invests in VTOL Technology
- NASA's Mars Helicopter: Red Planet Rotorcraft
- Sentient Science Forecasts Future Failures
- Forum 74 — Time to Build Something
- 74th Annual Awards
- GoFly Enters Phase II
- VFF Scholar Spotlight: Jason Cornelius
- Leadership Profile: Dr. Anya Jones
- Society Update
- 2018 Photo Contest Winners
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About our Cover
The production version of the Kitty Hawk Flyer was unveiled on June 6. The Flyer is the first electric VTOL in service, qualified under the FAA’s Part 103 Ultralight Aircraft category. See page 30. (Kitty Hawk photo)