A Possible Sea Change in Aviation ∞

OK, great, but where’s my centaur?

Friday, April 26th, 2024

New Yorker writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus recently investigated the current status of “flying cars”. As his article notes, most past designs were “jury-rigged compromises between a lousy automobile and a stupid airplane”. But now, thanks to advances in electric motors and batteries, small personal aircraft called eVTOLs (short for “electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle”) are in the works at a plethora of companies. Lewis-Kraus even got to fly one himself.