But when you think about it, I- I look back- over the arc of my own career having been a pilot for 42 years. And dozens of companies are already working with the FAA.Īnderson Cooper: It's not the flying cars that science fiction movies anticipated?īilly Nolen: No. The Air Force is investing, so is Airbus and American Airlines. Matt Chasen: Yeah, I think there's a huge market for people to just experience the thrill and joy of flight.Īround the world, all kinds of eVTOL are being developed cargo carriers, air ambulances, and a whole lot of air taxis - some with a pilot, some without. Chasen plans to start offering rides to paying customers for $250 by the end of this year.Īnderson Cooper: The initial market you see is essentially joy rides for people? So to give people a taste of the future now, Chasen designed Hexa as an ultralight vehicle, which means it doesn't have to go through the Federal Aviation Administration's complex certification process, but also can't fly over populated areas. Federal, state and local regulators - not to mention the nation's airspace - aren't ready for hundreds of thousands of commuters piloting their own eVTOLs in the skies over congested cities.
We see- putting fleets of aircraft at locations, where we provide maintenance, we provide training and people can come in and basically pay per flight.īut that's still a long way off. These are- these are very expensive aircraft. Matt Chasen: We don't see individual ownership as very practical.
Matt Chasen: You can fly ten miles in ten minutes instead of spending over an hour on the roads during rush hour congestion.Īnderson Cooper: Would it be something that an individual then- in the future owns and flies from their house to somewhere?
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