On September 21, the finals of the 11th “Maker China” Low-Altitude Economy SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition concluded. Blue Vector won First Prize with the SKYLA V30. The competition, the low-altitude economy special track of the 11th “Maker China” SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, was co-hosted by the Cybersecurity Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT Information Center) and the Department of Economy and Information Technology of Zhejiang Province, and focused on innovative technologies and industrial development in the low-altitude economy. The award recognizes the progress the SKYLA V30 has made to date in technological innovation, product development, and industrialization.

Wang Junfeng, Chief Engineer of the MIIT Information Center, and Lou Wanzong, Party Group Member and Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, present the First Prize awards

Technological Innovation: Building Core Product Capabilities

The SKYLA V30 is a six-seat, 2-ton-class all-electric eVTOL with a tiltrotor configuration, striking an optimal balance between operational efficiency and safety redundancy. It has a design range of 260 km and a maximum speed of 320 km/h. Focused on low-altitude operating scenarios, including intercity travel, urban congestion relief, and safety and emergency response, the SKYLA V30 is an urban executive aircraft that combines safety with intelligence.

Around this product vision, the SKYLA V30 continues to advance key technologies, including the tiltrotor configuration, the software-defined aircraft architecture, the core flight control system, electric powertrain integration and BMS, and structural design. The SIENS design philosophy (Safe, Intelligent, Efficient, Noiseless, Sustainable) runs through the entire product design and development process.

Safety remains the core principle of the SKYLA V30’s design. SKYLA adheres to civil-aviation-grade safety design, integrating safety requirements into the aircraft design, system architecture, and airworthiness validation, and extending them into the future operating system, so that safety is not just a product metric but a systemic capability spanning the entire product lifecycle.

Open Architecture: A Foundation for Continuous Evolution

In intelligence and systems integration, Blue Vector has independently developed the Intelligent Integrated Systems, building a forward-looking system foundation for the SKYLA V30. The IIS uses an open architecture with decoupled software and hardware. Through unified system integration capabilities, different functional modules operate in coordination under a single architecture, laying the groundwork for continuous software and feature upgrades. Compared with traditional avionics systems, in which software and hardware are tightly coupled, the IIS emphasizes openness and scalability, leaving room for further integration and evolution of functions such as the smart cockpit and flight systems, while still meeting aviation safety and airworthiness requirements. For an eVTOL that must keep adapting to different operating scenarios and application needs, an open, scalable system architecture will also be an important basis for continuous product iteration.

Long-Term Accumulation: Turning Technology into Engineering Practice

Moving an aviation product from a technical concept to real-world application requires a series of engineering stages, including development, manufacturing, testing, and airworthiness validation. Beyond the technical roadmap, the team’s long-accumulated aviation engineering experience is equally important to the product’s continued progress.

Blue Vector’s core team comes from the aerospace and new energy fields. Founder Wu Qiong has over 25 years in the aviation industry, and the core team averages more than 16 years of experience, with hands-on, end-to-end experience from development and manufacturing through airworthiness certification across military aircraft, civil aircraft, rotorcraft, business jets, and eVTOLs. Team members have taken part in the development and airworthiness certification (type finalization) of 18 aircraft models from scratch.

This accumulated experience also provides a solid foundation for the SKYLA V30 as it moves from product development to engineering validation and, later, airworthiness certification.

Helping Safe, Sustainable Low-Altitude Mobility Become Reality

From technological innovation to engineering practice, and now to recognition in competition, winning First Prize at the 11th “Maker China” Low-Altitude Economy SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition reflects recognition of the SKYLA V30’s progress to date.

The SKYLA V30 A/C01 full-scale technology demonstrator has now rolled off the line and is advancing its development and testing on schedule. First flight is planned for the end of this year, with airworthiness certification work to follow.

From a single aircraft to a future-oriented low-altitude mobility solution, SKYLA will keep building on technological innovation to move safe, sustainable low-altitude mobility steadily toward reality.