Bell and Yamato’s Autonomous Aerial Logistics Solution ‘APT’ Takes Flight

摘要

FORT WORTH, Texas - Out at Wrangler Field, an old Army airstrip far from dense populations and controlled airspace, Bell [TXT]and Japanese logistics company Yamato on Monday demonstrated to journalists the capabilities of their joint project announced last year: the Autonomous Pod Transport system, or APT. APT is a tail-sitting, all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) autonomous aircraft, capable of being scaled up or down to handle different size payloads and fulfill different mission sets. Currently, Bell is using APT-20 - named according to the payload it can carry - as a smaller testing vehicle for its main project, the APT-70.