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Urban air mobility company Joby Aviation is the latest company in the growing industry going public via a SPAC. The SPAC Deal: Joby Aviation is going ...
Voltaiq Appoints Industry Pioneers to Strategic Advisory Board to Drive Electrification Innovation The newly appointed Voltaiq Advisory Board includes cross-industry and global representation that will fuel battery and electrification innovation around the world with the first and only Enterprise Battery Intelligence software platform News provided by Share this article Share this article BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Voltaiq, the leader in Enterprise Battery Intelligence™ (EBI) software, today announced additions to their Advisory Board representing industry trailblazers...
Share Credit: Joby Aviation Stop me if you have heard this before: A whole new class of aircraft will democratize and revolutionize seemingly everything, starting with air travel. Will it be advanced air mobility or maybe very light jets? Aviation consultant Brian Foley recalls the latter while thinking of the former, since both are in the news recently. Disruptive paradigms are not a new threat to aviation, even this century, he notes. The Eclipse very light jet (VLJ) was intended to make airborne commuting more of a reality before it became a $1.5 billion “smoking crater in the ground.”...
More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more You’re in a rush, your flight leaves soon and you need to get from Wall Street to the airport. You could hail a cab but with traffic you might make your flight — tomorrow. Instead, you head over the heliport and hop on a short flight over traffic. No, this is not the 1970s when New York Airways helicopters offered frequent flights between Wall Street and New York’s airports for hurried bankers. This is a glimpse at United Airlines’ new plans for the urban mobilit...
By Jon Hemmerdinger2021-02-02T19:42:00+00:00 A new aerospace company led by former Boeing head Dennis Muilenburg has assembled an experienced management team and aims to advance technologies such as alternative propulsion, automation and manufacturing. That is according to documents recently disclosed by Muilenburg’s new venture – a “blank-check” investment company called New Vista Acquisition. Blank-check companies are publicly traded firms established for the sole purpose of raising money to acquire and bring public other companies. Source: Shutterstock Former Boeing CEO Dennis Mu...