Oliver Aircraft Hexplane VTOL concept

Video animation produced for Atlanta, Ga-based Oliver Aircraft showing its Hexplane concept for a six-engined vertical take-off and landing aircraft. Check out the blog at Aviation Week - The design can lose any one of its engines at any time and still complete its mission, even at maximum weight. Because it uses propellers and not rotors like a helicopter, or proprrotors like a tiltrotor, Oliver says the Hexplane is almost as fast and efficient as a turboprop aircraft. Oliver is working to raise funding to build a demonstrator that would use the fuselage of a Piaggio Avanti business aircraft.