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Jason Cornelius Left Space Helicopters for a Two-Foot Answer to Drone Warfare
After helping design a rotorcraft for Titan, the Penn State engineer traded interplanetary patience for two-week build-test cycles. His new problem is brutally terrestrial: making drone defense cheap enough to use at scale.
Martin Peryea
Martin Peryea is an aerospace engineer with more than 40 years in vertical flight who founded Jaunt Air Mobility in 2019 to build a quieter, more efficient electric VTOL air taxi. After 33 years at Bell Helicopter, where he became a Technical Fellow and chief engineer on the fly-by-wire Bell 525 Relentless, he bet his career on a contrarian idea: a single rotor that slows down in cruise while a wing does the lifting. That Slowed Rotor Compound design became the Jaunt Journey. He now leads the Electric Air Mobility division of The AIRO Group as Senior Vice President and General Manager.