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Aviation Pioneering - Aviation FutureOn the 21st October 2011: The first manned flight world-wide with a purely electrically powered, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft succeeded. The invention of the volocopter has been celebrated globally as pioneer work in aviation. In this moment, we construct the VC200, the first Volocopter to carry two people.This aircraft convinced the supreme authority for aviation in Germany to such an extent that it has commissioned the creation of a new national category in aviation.