CycloTech
BlackBird
Uncrewed 6-CycloRotor flight demonstrator
CycloTech's uncrewed flight demonstrator with six 7th-generation CycloRotors that can point thrust in any direction (360°). CycloTech lists a 340 kg MTOW, 4.9 × 2.3 × 2.0 m and a design flight speed of up to 120 km/h. Maiden flight 27 March 2025; CycloTech completed its summer 2026 flight campaign in September 2026. It is a testbed for the rotors and flight controls, with no cabin. The two-seat CruiseUp is the passenger study that would use them. Range, payload, battery capacity, flight time and price are not published.
- Range
- Not published
(varies with speed, reserves, and how the pilot flies the mission).
- Payload
- Not published
- Cruise
- Not published
(chosen by the pilot, and traded against range and endurance).
- Top speed
- Up to 120 km/h (design figure)
- Flight time
- Not published
(varies with the speed the pilot selects and the reserves kept for the mission).
- Price
- Not published
- MTOW
- 340 kg
- Seats
- 0 (uncrewed)
- Battery / fuel
- Battery-electric (capacity not published)
- Size
- 4.9 × 2.3 × 2.0 m
- First flight
- 27 March 2025
- Entry into service
- Not published (flight demonstrator)
Full figures
- Role
- Uncrewed technology demonstrator
- Rotors
- Six 7th-generation CycloRotors
- MTOW
- 340 kg
- Speed
- Up to 120 km/h (CycloTech design figure)
- Size
- 4.9 × 2.3 × 2.0 m
- First flight
- 27 March 2025
- Test campaign
- Summer 2026 flight campaign completed (CycloTech, 2 Sep 2026); more than 400 tests including ground and tethered runs
For
- Flying since March 2025; summer 2026 flight campaign completed
Against
- Uncrewed demonstrator, not a passenger product