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VerdeGo Quit Building the Flying Car - and Found the Business Every Flying Car Needs
The Daytona Beach startup stopped trying to win the air-taxi beauty contest and started supplying the awkward, essential machinery underneath it. Now its hybrid powerplants are moving from test stands to customer aircraft.
The San Diego startup betting the plane is the wrong shape
Every commercial jet you have ever flown is a tube with wings bolted on. Natilus thinks that is a $24 billion mistake - and it has the order book to argue about it.
GE Aerospace
GE Aerospace sells some of the most complicated machines humans make. The deeper business begins after delivery, when decades of maintenance, data and parts turn an engine under the wing into a long-lived service relationship.
Jaunt Air Mobility
Jaunt Air Mobility is a Dallas-based aerospace company building the all-electric Journey eVTOL, an air taxi that takes off like a helicopter and cruises like an airplane using patented Slowed Rotor Compound (SRC) technology. Founded in 2019 on intellectual property acquired from Carter Aviation, Jaunt is pursuing a certification path as a rotorcraft and is now a brand within publicly traded AIRO Group Holdings. Its aircraft carries a pilot and four passengers roughly 80-120 miles at 175 mph with low noise and an autorotation safety fallback.
Electra.aero
Electra.aero is a Manassas, Virginia aerospace company building the EL9, a nine-passenger hybrid-electric 'Ultra Short' aircraft that takes off and lands in about 150 feet - roughly a soccer field - without conventional runways, charging stations, or the noise of a normal airplane. Using blown-lift aerodynamics and eight electric motors, it aims to open regional and community air travel from grass strips and small airfields while cutting emissions, with FAA Part 23 certification targeted for 2029.
Odys Aviation
Odys Aviation is a Long Beach, California deep-tech aerospace company building long-range, hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Its blown-wing design lets aircraft lift off and land anywhere - no runway needed - while flying farther and carrying more than battery-only eVTOLs. With two platforms, the Laila tactical cargo drone and the larger Alta regional aircraft, Odys targets defense, logistics and passenger markets, and has amassed more than $11 billion in signed letters of intent.