Over the last couple of
years, virtually nobody has reported on the mysterious and bizarre-looking, but
potentially revolutionary flying machine known as the Otto Aviation Celera 500L
aside from The War Zone. Well, that is until our most recent article on the aircraft from
June of 2019. That piece went viral, but nobody that we know of has followed up
with any new information on the remarkably secretive civilian aircraft or the
extremely shy firm that built it. Now, based on first-hand reports and images
we have seen, we can state that the exotic, bullet-shaped flying machine has
successfully taken to the skies.
Before we proceed, take a
moment and read about the Celera 500L in order to get up
to speed on its proposed capabilities. Suffice it to say, the aircraft is all
about shattering the traditional concepts and economies of commercial and
private air travel and more.
Word of the aircraft being finally spotted in
the air near its Victorville, California home came early last week. A few days
later, actual images of the unmistakable airframe flying with a twin-prop chase
plane in tow surfaced. It isn't clear if this was the plane's actual first
flight, but it is the first we or anyone I have talked to knows about.
Considering how unique the plane looks and its commercial airport home, it's
hard to imagine it has been flying for any considerable amount of time without
anyone noticing. Now the big
question is, when will Otto Aviation actually say anything about the aircraft
that is basically their reason for being. Usually successful first flights are
something to be grandly promoted and are a huge validation of so much tireless
work by the project's team, yet this endeavor seems to have been run in a
manner far more akin to a secretive military aircraft project than a
potentially transformative civil aviation one.
Hopefully this highly intriguing plane and
the people that built it come out of the shadows soon, but regardless, the
Celera 500L is now a very real flying machine.
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