Transcend Aero Line Up

Joined today and wanted to share some projects of some friends of mine at Transcend Air to see a honest critique from this community.

Please share thoughts.

Transcend Website

Version
MAX CRUISE SPEED
MAX RANGE

V-421 (2x GE CT7-8)
421 kts
1,906 nmi

V-521 (2x GE T901)
435 kts
2,383 nmi

V-621 (2x GE T408)
470 kts
2,717 nmi

V-641 (4x GE T408)
460 kts
2,912 nmi

V-651 (5x GE T408)
460 kts
5,061 nmi

CV-653 LOADING A HUMVEE

 

[Reaper]

What is their current progress to develop one of these right now? I see that they have 14 people associated with them on Linkedin but not many seem full time.
Im very skeptical if they can hit 421kts with their small one. Or maybe they can but I wonder if it still can hover well. The V-280 has a similar configuration but hits only 280kts. So there is a trade off between hover ability and speed. Bell took a very different approach for their HSVTOL to go over 400kts.

 

[WarValor]

Honestly they are a bit all over the place and I have no clue. From my understanding, they are making the most affordable solutions but I'm not sure if they can back up the performance or not. The HSVTOL by Bell is a great, I just don't know how valuable a tilt-rotor will be in upcoming years with developing propulsion systems...